Recovering Pictures from a Digital Camera SD Card

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Greetings all.

The other day my SD card became corrupt somehow and kept giving me errors when using it with Windows 7 (with a card reader) and in my digital camera. I just did a basic "quick format" using Windows so that it would be recognised (as Recuva can't restore things from damaged partitions as far as I know). This of course deleted all my images on there. I now need to get them back. Nothing else has been written to the SD card since.

I ran a deep scan using Recuva to try and recover them with my options set like this:

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To my delight, all my images where discovered:

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However, when I click "Recover..." and select a destination (on my hard drive, not the flash drive) none of the files get recovered after waiting for the progress bar to fully complete and I get a message saying that the "semaphore period has expired". I have no idea what this means.

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Can anyone help?

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It appears to be a lack of response from (presumably) the SD card. Google shows many hits for this, and many causes, including bad usb connection, too many threads, large files, anything networky etc. I can only suggest that you plough through a few of them.

Start with this http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic87193.html and this http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistanetworking/thread/c3fc9f5d-c073-4a9f-bb3d-b7bb8f893f78/