Help! need to unformat XD card from Olympus C-765 !!

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On 7/20/2005 4:09 AM US(ET), Mike took fingers to keys, and typed the
following:

>Just got this camera Olympus C-765, and was happy with it taking
>pictures... but accidentaly formatted the XD card ... this stupid
>camera does not give you a second prompt before formatting....
>
>I tried using several advertised programs to unformat it , but no luck
>so far. I read that XD cards on Olympus and Fuji cameras are
>impossible to unformat???
>
>Is there any chance in hell that I can get my pictures back with any
>program out there???
>
>thanks for any info,
>
>mike,
>

There are lots of recovery programs selling for $30, $40 and up. This
one from Germany is apparently donate ware.
http://www.pcinspector.de/download [...] t_recovery

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Bill

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"mike" <user2005@msn.com> wrote in message
news:mkyDe.4$147.2@bos-service2.ext.ray.com...
> Sorry, No chance to get you images back. The Olympus camera blanks the
> memory when the XD card is formatted. I checked an XD card formatted on
my
> Olympus C-770 and used winhex utility the dump memory and all I can read
> are 00's and FF's.
>
>
>
> "Mike" <saturn97@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:c61sd19gefbo5ijkgv726dpqpbalg01c7d@4ax.com...
> > Just got this camera Olympus C-765, and was happy with it taking
> > pictures... but accidentaly formatted the XD card ... this stupid
> > camera does not give you a second prompt before formatting....
> >
> > I tried using several advertised programs to unformat it , but no luck
> > so far. I read that XD cards on Olympus and Fuji cameras are
> > impossible to unformat???
> >
> > Is there any chance in hell that I can get my pictures back with any
> > program out there???
> >
> > thanks for any info,
> >
> > mike,

Can't you place the XD in a card reader and run the unformat in there we use
one for reading and it just treats the card as a removable disk
Derek