Attepting to retrieve deleted photos

[greenfrog]

I have a Canon SD1000 camera. I had downloaded some photos of a recent vacation and THOUGHT that I downloaded them all. It wasn't until after I deleted them (chose "erase all" on the camera) that I learned that about 100 of the photos didn't download. To make matters worse, I didn't realize that I hadn't downloaded the 100 photos, so I had already taken about 30 new pictures on the card.

Last night, I ran the ZAR program, and the entire screen was filled with bad sectors. I mean, every single block on the screen was a red block! I realize this is not good news, but does that mean that NOTHING is salvagable?

When I originally ran the ZAR program w/ my digital camera and USB cord attached, it didn't give me any driver options. I then placed the card in my HP Photosmart printer, and it then gave me that to choose as an option. Could this have anything to do with all of the bad sectors?

Do you have any other suggestions for me? I'm not very technically inclined and could use all the help I can get!

Thanks in advance.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

"All red" would indicate nothing is readable on the card (i.e. physical card failure), assuming the reader device works properly. In case you have some other known-good flash card, you may want to test its recovery (even if it is not damaged). Considering the card works in the camera, there is probably some reading issue.

Also consider flipping some settings as described here