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I have this SD which i use in my digital camera, i have taken a lot of pictures recently, summer photos, my brothers wedding, and my cousins first day of school. i went to copy them onto the computer and it worked as it always has (opening up windows explorer, select all, copy and then paste them in a different folder). however, when i tried opening them up, some of the pictures (the more recent photos) weren't displaying properly, they just appeared as random horizontal colourful lines. i decided to check the card, so i tried opening them directly from the card, but i couldn't get into the folder on the card (i can get into the DCIM folder) there are three folders but they seem to have been randomly renamed:
*
**
100(followed by 3 boxes)
these are what the folders in the DCIM folder have ben renamed to. The pictures will no longer show up when the card is in the camera. The PC i initially used to look at the pictures has windows xp, but i now have the card inserted into my laptop, which is running windows vista, i am scared to take the card out of the laptop just in case it makes the problem worse. please can someone help me.
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by: KCTSPosted on 2009-09-15 at 02:58:20ID: 25333312
It sounds like tha card has become corrupted/damaged - not necessarily by Windows, it can happen due to all sorts of things including static electricity and magnetic fields - that way its always recommended that yoou copy stuff from SD cards (and other such memory devices) as soon as is practially possible and make sure everythinh is backed up.
There are utilities which may help you recover some or all of your photos including http://www.filerecoverytoo
and http://www.cardrecovery.co