Wedding Photos Recovered - Further Help Needed!

[RyanW]

Hi All,

I ran ZAR last night on my PQI F1 256MB CF Card which developed a card error after spending the day taking shots of my wedding. I've tried tons of software that could not even read the card.

I left ZAR for hours last night which Identified lots of bad sectors and by this morning it had found 5 JPEGs. When restoring these the first two pictures are approx 100MB each???? Now I know there where lots of shots taken on the card so I'm assuming that something has screwed up and put all the data in these first two images.

I've yet to get home and examine the images but has anyone got any idea what has happened here and how I can put it right?

Many Thanks

Ryan

[Alexey V. Gubin]

With bad sectors on a card that is to be expected. If you have five images (recognizeable headers) out of "lots", let's say 100? that would give us 95% damage rate? i.e. of any 100 given sectors, only five turned out readable. I'd say it beyond the software repair, provided that

1. You tried with a card reader device, to eliminate the possibility of the bad connection.
2. "Cluster factor detection threshold" is set to 100% in ZAR, "Advanced Configuration", "Common filesystem analysis" panel. It is 100% by default since, I believe, 8.3 build 16 or thereabouts, but I suggest you check it just in case.