Seeking advise how to restore pictures

[jthian]

Seeking advise and help in this issue:
My Kingston CF card plug in card reader and all the pictures in card has gone disappeared. It has only left an empty folder. I unplug from card reader and plug in to DSLR camera, preview show 'no image' but counter showing remaining shoot available. Those pictures are very important to me and I am trying to find way to restore back those pictures. I believe somebody may have experience this before, please please....help! Your advise is very very much appreciated!

 

[zac08]

Do a search... (if you think it's been discussed before)

Anyway, there are a few data recovery programs for this purpose. One is called Image rescue from Lexar.

Some may require money to get the program working.

 

[pip22]

As zac says, lexar have an image recovery tool. If you buy a new lexar CF card the tool is supplied free with some of them.

 

[jthian]

Is this recovery tool wk to other brand of CF card?

thousand million thanks for advise......

 

[zac08]

Is this recovery tool wk to other brand of CF card?

thousand million thanks for advise......

Yes.. it works for all other cards

 

[Octarine]

Wouldn't be surprised if this is just a different (or slightly better) tool to restore and recover a spoilt FAT file system. Had an issue where the file system in CF card got screwed: file names all messed up, file sizes and dates with weird data. A simple "chkdsk -f" worked well, the files got restored as "filexxxx.chk" (xxxx being ascending numbers). Just did a batch rename to *.jpg, then checked them in detail. Using EXIF I could restore original file names.