Cannot recover deleted Olympus ORF files

[JSGaglione]

Hello - I have a 2GB Lexar CF card that has two deleted Olympus Raw Format
images on it that I cannot recover. It also has 35 deleted TIFF images from last year that recover very well.

The images were deleted one at a time, and no other images were saved on
the card after the deletions.

I have used image recovery settings mentioned in other forum posts, and I have tried simple volume recovery without success.



Any suggestions?
Thank you.

Logfile.txt:

0000083C: Init done - logging
0000083C: NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2; 1023 MB RAM
Open physical drive 00000102 success, 76308 MB : C: - Port 0, Bus 0, Target 0, LUN 0; maxLBA=156280257
Open physical drive 00000103 success, 2047 MB : D: - Port 1, Bus 0, Target 1, LUN 0; maxLBA=4194303
Open physical drive 00000104 success, 1957 MB : E:; maxLBA=4008763
Open physical drive 00000105 success, 186 GB : F: [DISK2_VOL1] - Port 0, Bus 0, Target 1, LUN 0; maxLBA=390716802
Processing volume ID 0000FFFF
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Volume information for ID 0000FFFF
Origin : Scan
Partition type : Unknown
Capacity : 1957 MB
Number of sectors : 4008763
RAID type : Simple volume
Stripe size : 1
Rotation parameters: 0 / 0
Member 00 : 4008763 sectors at LBA 0 on device 0104
-------------------------------------
Volume information for ID 0000FFFF
Origin : Scan
Partition type : Unknown
Capacity : 1957 MB
Number of sectors : 4008763
RAID type : Simple volume
Stripe size : 1
Rotation parameters: 0 / 0
Member 00 : 4008763 sectors at LBA 0 on device 0104
Starting raw scanner for a total of 4008763 sectors
Raw scanner starting on disk 0104 from LBA 0 to LBA 4008763
QS MODE INHIBIT
QS SIZE INHIBIT
AS start
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (144 of 144) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
AS done
Object count : Unknown 0
Object count : Physcially bad 0
Object count : FAT16 boot sector 1
Object count : FAT32 boot sector 0
Object count : FAT16 sector 105
Object count : FAT32 sector 0
Object count : NTFS boot sector 0
Object count : NTFS MFT entry 0
Object count : NTFS INDX block 0
Object count : NTFS RSTR block 0
Object count : NTFS RCRD block 0
Object count : ext2/3 superblock 0
Object count : ext2/3 inodes 0
Object count : ext2/3 directory start 0
Object count : JFS superblock 0
Object count : ReiserFs superblock 0
Object count : Whole FAT directory 1
Object count : Start of FAT directory 1
Object count : FAT directory run 1
Object count : GIF image 0
Object count : JPEG image 0
Object count : TIFF image 35
Object count : WAV sound 0
Object count : ZIP archive 0
Object count : RAR archive 0
Object count : EXE/DLL DOS/Windows executable module 0
Object count : OLE Structured Storage 0
Object count : MP4 video 0
Object count : Adobe PDF 0
Object count : PNG image 0
Object count : Real Media 0
Object count : LNK shortcut 0
Object count : MIDI 0
Object count : CAB archive 0
Object count : CHM help file 0
Object count : CRW Canon raw image 0
Object count : MOV Quick Time movie 0
Object count : ICM color profile 0
Object count : GZip archive 0
Object count : Olympus RAW (ORF) 0
Object count : AVI video 0
Object count : AMR audio 0
Image recovery - Detect parameters start
Performance: Ident data query (37 of 144) 0s
CF=2: 100.0%
CF=4: 100.0%
CF=8: 100.0%
CF=16: 97.2%
Determined CF=8
Performance: Ident data query (37 of 144) 0s
Determined SS=3.000
Image recovery - Detect parameters done
Image recovery - Parse - RAW filesystem - start
Image recovery - Parse - RAW filesystem - startup phase complete
Image recovery started
Performance: Ident data query (144 of 144) 0s
Image recovery - Parse - RAW filesystem - done (or aborted)
Fragment reordering start
No fragments stored, rolling back
Scavenger starting
Scavenger started
Starting 2 worker(s)
Started 2 worker(s)
Done 2 worker(s)
Started tree mods
Done tree mods
Start purge
Done purge
Scavenger stopping
Scavenger stopped
Autosave starting
Autosave started
AS start
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (144 of 144) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (0 of 0) 0s
Performance: Ident data query (144 of 144) 0s
AS done
Autosave stopping
Autosave stopped
Final TS start
FL load starting
FL load started
FL root operation
FL root done
FL load stopping
FL load stopped
Performance: RunTime 8m 7s
Final TS done
Performance: Render image i00033.tif 2s
TE SF 1
TE SF 2
ROOT\i00033.tif - 11862016 bytes
TS: Stop validation
TS: Stopped validation
Logging - shut down

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Do you have one known-good ORF file in your archive somewhere? I need a sample - get an image you have already shot in ORF format and email it to me development@z-a-recovery.com (15 megabytes max; contents of the image does not really matter, but image should be valid).

IMPORTANT: DO NOT take the sample image onto the same damaged card. Either get the image from your archive, or get a different card.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Checked this, found a bug, will provide an update in two days.

[JSGaglione]

Thank You very much.

-John

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Amended that part, please try http://www.z-a-recovery.com/zar-83-032.exe to see if it works better.
However, avoid using it for any other recoveries - some code it contains was not tested well enough.

[JSGaglione]

Unqualified SUCCESS!

ZAR recovered not only photos that had been deleted, but photos that had gone through Olympus re-formatting.

1.91 GB recovered from a 2 GB card.

Should I go back to release 8.3 until the .ORF changes are in a formal release?

Thanks

John

[Alexey V. Gubin]

The latest version I consider "for production use" is referenced on this forum in the announcement. As of today, that's build 30.