Storage Card Data

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Richard,

Have you put the card in a card reader attached to your PC to see if the
files are indeed gone?

If they are gone, the only way I know of to restore them would be from a
backup of the card.

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"Richard Richter" <rprdds@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have an iPaq 5555 with Windows PocketPC Ver. 4.2 and a Sandisk Ultra II
> 256 mb storage card.
>
> Yesterday for some unknown reason, all the data on the storage card
> disappeared. The folders and subfolders are all there, but the data in
> those
> folders is missing.
>
> Is there any way to make the data reappear short of restoring from a
> backup?
>
> Richard Richter
>
>

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Good points on your post Chance. I hadn't thought of that being a
possibility. Tedious but could be done.


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"Chance Hopkins" <chance_hopkins@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Clinton Fitch, Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com!"
> <management@NOSPAMMINGME.clintonfitch.com> wrote in message
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>> Richard,
>>
>> Have you put the card in a card reader attached to your PC to see if the
>> files are indeed gone?
>
> Great advice.
>
>>
>> If they are gone, the only way I know of to restore them would be from a
>> backup of the card.
>
> I don't totally agree here. I've used software that scans a drive sector
> by sector to rebuild the file/directory structure and recovered data off
> memory cards before.
>
> Depending on the value of the data, you can pay people to do this also.
> They can't recover latent images like in a desktop HD, but if it's just a
> structural problem it's possible.
>
>
>

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"René" <kar98@the-coalition.us> wrote in message
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> Chance Hopkins wrote:
>> "Clinton Fitch, Clinton Fitch (Dot) Com!"
>>> If they are gone, the only way I know of to restore them would be from
>>> a backup of the card.
>>
>> I don't totally agree here.
>
> Please note that he wrote "...the only way _I_ know of...".

Ah yes, thanks for pointing that out.

>
> Nobody in his right mind would claim to know every solution to every
> computer-related problem
>

I agree completely.


>> I've used software that scans a drive
>> sector by sector to rebuild the file/directory structure and recovered
>> data off memory cards before.
>
> Good advice; reminds me to back up my SD card to my harddrive and to CD
> again.
>