Ty1980

I was able to find this program (http://www.transcend-info.com/Support/DLCenter/DLSoftware.asp?ID=5&Func1No=3&Func2No=205) which appears to be Transcends recovery tool. I will forward it to the person currently looking at the card and see if it helps.

Hello everyone, sorry for not responding sooner. A couple of days ago I brought the card to a local computer shop to see if they could figure anything special about it, but I will forward them a link to this tread and hopefully it will help. Dennis - I actually tried that usb image tool a week or so ago when I read you recommending it to another poster. If I remember correctly either the card didn't show up at all or it showed up but didn't let me backup anything to it. But I remember trying to plug in another working card into it and it worked perfectly. I was able to successfully back the sd card up with some other programs, but it would only backup the 1 GB that was recognized.

Hi Dennis, Thanks for posting. I have tried PhotoRec and didn't have any luck. I am just really perplexed by why it always shows up as 1024 mb. I tried most of my tests on a Windows 7 64 bit build, but I also tried using recuva and a few other programs on a 32 bit windows 7 laptop.

Hi Alan, Thanks for the interesting idea. Unfortunately I purchased the SD card directly from Amazon.com and am almost positive that I had taken and stored at least 2 GB worth of photos and videos on it. One other thing that probably should have been a sign that something bad was going to happen is that I remember a few weeks ago when looking at the files from my PC that their was a couple of them that would say 'this file is corrupt and cannot be viewed'. Does anyone else have any thoughts?

Hello, I’m hoping that someone can help me out. I have a 16 GB Transcent SD card that I use to take pictures with on my camera. Today I was taking some pictures and out of the blue got a ‘card error’ message on my camera. When I got home I tried checking it on my computer with my SD card reader. When I plug the card in I get a message saying “you need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it”. The card is recognized under my computers, but it says it has 0 bytes on it. I have not formatted it yet. I have tried a couple programs such as Zero Assumption Recovery and Rescue My Files, but they haven’t been able to find any files on the disk. The weird thing is that all the recovery programs I am trying say that the SD card is only 1 GB when it is actually 16 GB. I have tried using Recuva, but get an "unable to read boot sector" error. Does anyone have any idea of what I can try next to get my photos off the card and onto my computer? Thanks, Ty