Something very very unexpected happened yesterday after I returned from the
photo session. Something I am actually quite happy (now:-) that it
happened.
I use
Hyperdrive
SPACE for copying images from my CF card at the time of shooting. I
bough this device this summer and place in it my older 2.5" HDD. I setup
this device for the most secure and safe copying. Each image is copied and
than re-read and checked again, before it is removed from CF card.
I came home yesterday and connected my Hyperdrive to PC using USB and
start copying images. And, exactly what you expect happen. During copying
it stop on certain file. HDD made quirky sound and USB disconnect the
drive. So from around 400 images I have got hardly 220.
Nothing helped. Before I start to thing about removing HDD (I still want
to do it) I was thinking. I used each of my CF cards only once and than I
just removed files (or that quick format what Hyperdrive does). So the
images must be on cards as well. And because I bought one of the most
expensive cards from SanDisk I have got also their recover software. So
let's use it. Must be no problem it is FAT32 and any good un-delete must be
able to recover files from it. Well SanDisk soft completely failed. And so
other about ten I have tried. I was desperate. Today I have found a
software
FlashUnDelete
from Russian guy named Timofei Goryunov. I tried demo and certainly I saw
all my lost images, but I couldn't restored them. I have payed something
over 22 euro and now I have all my images back!
I will check my 2.5" HDD in Hyperdrive and I will probably buy some new
and better HDD for it. Now I am uncertain, how all this is possible? Why?
Well I know when you shoot film, you always can screw up development so you
can screw image storage. Nothing is bullet proof!
