Alexey, New here today.

[lfred]

My name's Lee, Seattle area: desperate!!!

Shot some photos of rock mosaics by my wife yesterday.
Mistakenly deleted before download.
Art then disassembled. VERY BAD NEWS!!!,
a long time in the creation!

I'm running Win XP, SP2.

ZAR won't recognize my Canon G7 memory card from the camera
installed memory card. No card reader. Afraid to shoot any pictures
before salvaging deleted items. This leaves my wife steaming, and my
camera unusable until recovery effected.

Help in ZAR mentions changes in "drive access", physical, virtual,
but offers no help on where to make these changes....
The help section is not too helpful for me yet.

I want to use the camera, connected to a USB port, and have ZAR
access the card and download deleted images to a particular file
on my C: drive.

Can ya' help? slowly, so an old guy can follow?
No step, no detail left unexplained?

Save my life, or at least the quality thereof.

TIA,

Lee

[Alexey V. Gubin]

In case it does not recognize the camera, there is little we can do. I looked up the manual on the Canon PowerShot G7 and it does not indicate the camera supports direct reading of the card. So if the following method does not work (i.e. no card in list), you will really need a card reader device.

Try this

1. Run ZAR
2. Once it is loaded, on the first screen, click "Advanced configuration". This brings up the settings window.
3. In the settings window, switch to the "Disks and partitions" tab.
4. In there, near the top of the window, there is a switch controlling the disk access mode. It can be either "Using physical devices" (default) or "Using logical drives". Since the default setting ("physical") does not seem to work, you should change it to "Disk access using logical drives".
5. Click OK to close settings window.
6. Retry the run as illustrated here - http://www.z-a-recovery.com/demo-ir.htm

Below is the view of the settings window with the required procedure illustrated.



Hope that helps.

[lfred]

Thanks, Alexey,

I'll give that a try.

If it doesn't work, I guess I'll have to get a card reader.

Lee