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Hi Guys,
I really hope someone can help me out here. Read the story below and feel my pain….!
Yesterday I went to Pudong for a session of photography, weather was perfect and I arrived at about 1200. Began photographing with my D70, and this time brought along the ladder to see whether or not I could find some new angles. Found a superb spot where you can shoot lineups and landings, it was great. Lots of nice things for me, JAL B744F, Yangtse River Express B737, KLM B777……I was in heaven.
However, I had to be careful because with the Chinese authorities, as they don’t really take too kindly to photography at their airports, and naturally, I ended up getting “spotted” and decided to move on from this wonderful spot before I was questioned. Very happy, one 512MB full of images!
So, next went shoot some landing shots, and used up another Compactflash card.
Now I have a device, called a Mobile DataSafe II, made by Hama, which basically is a CD ROM burner and allows me to directly burn images from my Compactflash card. So having used up two of my cards, I needed to “refresh”. Turned on the machine, and put in a blank CD, plugged in the Compactflash card from the first shots of the day and pressed backup. Sure enough, everything ran smoothly and as usual, at the end the CD ROM popped out of the slot and everything looked fine.
At about 1600, the sun disappeared for the day and I went home. As soon as I walked in the door, I went over to the comupter and put in the CD ROM burned at the airport to review the images. Imagine my horror when nothing showed up, but instead the screen popped up with the “Burn a CD function”!!!!! I was in shock, there was NOTHING! But I also noticed that there were 0 bytes free on the disc.
Ok I thought, think, think, think. After trying this and that for about an hour, and still finding nothing, I resorted to hitting the “Burn a CD function” and lo and behold, on the “select files or folders” screen, there was a list of the images I had shot that afternoon. So I knew that they had been burned to the CD, but something had gone wrong in the burn process and for some reason, I could not get access to them.
I have tried everything, downloaded all sorts of image recovery programmes, but the problem is that it can’t get into my E drive with the CD in the slot because does not recognise a disk inside the slot. I tried making a direct copy of the CD but it works OK until the end of the copy process and then displays an error.
So dear friends, fellow enthusiasts, I am at my wits end. Can anyone help me here. To summarise:
1) Those images are on the CD
2) I can’t run any recovery software as the CD is not recognised when I put it in the drive.
3) I completely pissed off
Is there anything that I can do, or have those images been lost forever.
Thanks to anyone who can help me
Andrew
I really hope someone can help me out here. Read the story below and feel my pain….!
Yesterday I went to Pudong for a session of photography, weather was perfect and I arrived at about 1200. Began photographing with my D70, and this time brought along the ladder to see whether or not I could find some new angles. Found a superb spot where you can shoot lineups and landings, it was great. Lots of nice things for me, JAL B744F, Yangtse River Express B737, KLM B777……I was in heaven.
However, I had to be careful because with the Chinese authorities, as they don’t really take too kindly to photography at their airports, and naturally, I ended up getting “spotted” and decided to move on from this wonderful spot before I was questioned. Very happy, one 512MB full of images!
So, next went shoot some landing shots, and used up another Compactflash card.
Now I have a device, called a Mobile DataSafe II, made by Hama, which basically is a CD ROM burner and allows me to directly burn images from my Compactflash card. So having used up two of my cards, I needed to “refresh”. Turned on the machine, and put in a blank CD, plugged in the Compactflash card from the first shots of the day and pressed backup. Sure enough, everything ran smoothly and as usual, at the end the CD ROM popped out of the slot and everything looked fine.
At about 1600, the sun disappeared for the day and I went home. As soon as I walked in the door, I went over to the comupter and put in the CD ROM burned at the airport to review the images. Imagine my horror when nothing showed up, but instead the screen popped up with the “Burn a CD function”!!!!! I was in shock, there was NOTHING! But I also noticed that there were 0 bytes free on the disc.
Ok I thought, think, think, think. After trying this and that for about an hour, and still finding nothing, I resorted to hitting the “Burn a CD function” and lo and behold, on the “select files or folders” screen, there was a list of the images I had shot that afternoon. So I knew that they had been burned to the CD, but something had gone wrong in the burn process and for some reason, I could not get access to them.
I have tried everything, downloaded all sorts of image recovery programmes, but the problem is that it can’t get into my E drive with the CD in the slot because does not recognise a disk inside the slot. I tried making a direct copy of the CD but it works OK until the end of the copy process and then displays an error.
So dear friends, fellow enthusiasts, I am at my wits end. Can anyone help me here. To summarise:
1) Those images are on the CD
2) I can’t run any recovery software as the CD is not recognised when I put it in the drive.
3) I completely pissed off
Is there anything that I can do, or have those images been lost forever.
Thanks to anyone who can help me
Andrew
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