Huge 12 hour recovery

[Rex Taylor]

Dear Sir:
I have an 128MB Olympus xD camera card. It seems to have become corrupted. I tried the free software to recover the photos. The whole process took over 12 hours. When finished, the results say it recovered 58496 MB in 30693 files. And of course, there's not enough disk space for me to save them. Could it be that the software recovered pictures from my computer instead of the card? I am using a card reader. There were two choices for me to pick to recover from. One choice had nothing in it; the other was labeled "Samsung...." (I don't reacall the entire line).
Please help. Thank you.
Rex Taylor

[Rex Taylor]

I did double click on a file in the tree and obviously it recovered images from my computer (there are ads and banners and such from the internet). So I tried to select the right device and it is not listed. I went to the "Help" where it states I can switch the access mode in options between physical and logical. However, I cannot find where I would make that switch.
Sorry if this is annoying, I'd really like to recover these pics.
Rex

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Start ZAR
On the first screen, click "Advanced Configuration"
In there, switch to "Disks and partitions" tab
At the top of the window, change "Disk access using physical devices" to "Disk access using logical drives".
Click OK to close configuration.If this does not work, could you please clarify if you are using a camera to access the card, or a separate card reader device?

[Rex Taylor]

Thank you for your response. I didn't expect an answer so soon.
I am using a card reader that plugs into the front of my HP. I did as you said; I switched from physical to logical (not sure why I did not see that). It did bring up more choices (C, D, E, and F drive). The F drive says it has 0 data. I went to My Computer, unplugged the card reader and sure enough, the F drive choice disappeared. (It is also labeled "removable").

When I try to select it and recover, the error states that the size appears as zero. I'm guessing this is not good.

Last month, I paid $50 for software that an IT tech friend tried to use. It only gave us s.
Should I just reformat and forget these photos?
rt

[Rex Taylor]

Not sure what happened with my last message. At the end I said that the IT tech and I only got s. That word didn't seem to get transmitted.
rt

[Rex Taylor]

Hmmmm happened again. The word is what you call the nail at the end of your thumb. Perhaps our cyber sitter is removing that word.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Overall this looks bad. However I want you to confirm a couple of things.


Delete ZAR log file, C:\Program Files\ZAR\logfile.txt
Start ZAR
Open "Advanced Configuration" and reset the setting back to "Disk access using physical drives". Close configuration.
Proceed to the point where it prompts you to select a disk.
Do not select anything, just exit.
Post the contents of a log file (C:\Program Files\ZAR\logfile.txt) here.This log file should contain what it sees about your card reader (and a card in it), if there really is something to see.

[Rex Taylor]

I tried to copy and paste the logfile.txt, but when I right click to past onto this document, "paste" is not lit up. The description of it says 1KB.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Double click it, and Notepad will open to actually view the text. Select all the text, copy & paste here.

[Rex Taylor]

Init done - logging
NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 247 MB RAM
Open physical drive 00000100 success, 76351 MB : SAMSUNG SP0802N - Port 0, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0; maxLBA=156368016
Open physical drive 00000101 success, 0 B : Multi Flash Reader; maxLBA=0
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down
Init done - logging
NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 247 MB RAM
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down
Init done - logging
NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 247 MB RAM
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down



Here it is. Thanks for your help.
rt

[Alexey V. Gubin]

This is beyond our capabilities. The card does not respond properly to a read requests - you need a hardware repair to handle this.