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A more reasonable approach is to try special data recovery software you can install on
your computer and use to attempt to resurrect your “lost” images yourself. They may
not actually be gone completely. Perhaps your card’s “table of contents” is jumbled, or
only a few pictures are damaged in such a way that your camera and computer can’t
read some or any of the pictures on the card. Some of the available software was
written specifically to reconstruct lost pictures, while other utilities are more
general purpose applications that can be used with any media, including floppy
disks and hard disk drives. They have names like OnTrack, Photo Rescue 2, Digital
Image Recovery, MediaRecover, Image Recall, and the aptly named Recover My
Photos. You’ll find a comprehensive list and links, as well as some picture recovery tips
at www.ultimateslr.com/memory-card-recovery.php. I like the RescuePRO software
that SanDisk supplies (see Figure 14.8), especially since it came on a mini-CD that I
was totally unable to erase by mistake.
David Busch’s Nikon D7000 Guide to Digital SLR Photography476
Figure 14.8
SanDisk supplies
RescuePRO
recovery soft-
ware with some
of its memory
cards.