On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 11:39, Rod Hauser wrote: > I have 2 data recovery situations that could use an opinion. > 2) a 3.3V 64MB SmartMedia card that was filled up in the camera, but now > shows as blank (errors) both in the camera and in the FlashPath floppy > adapter. . I downloaded a piece of software that said it might read it, but > it doesn't show any more data. I've considered buying a USB adapter just to > try recovery one more way, but I do not have high hopes. > Any opinions to the contrary? I wrote a perl script that I used to recover photos from a smartmedia a friend accidentally ran a "delete all" on. Note that it will create a bunch of jpegs in the CWD called "recoverNN.jpg", where NN is a sequential number. Also note that this program works by ignoring the directory table and just identifying the start and end of files by looking for a specific header, which is specified in line 2 of the file. I mention this because it can cause abnormally large jpeg files which are a normal jpeg plus a bunch of nonsensical garbage at the end that most viewers ignore. Anyway, feed the program by directing the raw device toward stdin, such as: perl recover.pl < /dev/hde1 -Paul -- Paul Timmins paulat_private / http://www.timmins.net/ H: 248-683-7295 / C: 248-379-7826 / DC: 130*116*24495 A: noweb4u / R: KC8QAY
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