Posted: 1/21/2005 6:23:44 AM EDT
| Ok guys, my micro drive is shot, every damn time I try to pull images off of it it crashes my computer, or the camera. Just freezes it all right up. The thing is, I still have pics from the DE class in october that I want off that disk. They are mostly the pics from when we were up top shooting the long range stuff and the .458 and all that. If anyone has any ideas, or wants to try and save these pics please let me know. This is really starting to piss me off as it's the only drive I have for my digital camera and there is something wrong with it and I don't know what. |
| I've tried downloading from the camera into the computer, I also have a drive slot on the computer for the micro drive to plug right into, and tried it direct. No go, it just freezes it up. The OS on the computer is XP media center. I have tried it on another computer, with no luck. |
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Do those things plug into any ordinary flash card reader? or is an adapter neccessary? If you're not trying to d/l the pictures .......... IE: just using the camera normally ............ can you preview the pictures on the camera's view finder? Did the drive come with its own software that you haven't needed to use yet because XP recognized the drive? Personally, I think its an ammo related problem, and if the group purchase materializes according to the original terms then the data gods will be appeased and exorcise the bad aura in the device. Might want to look into that. 
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No additional software. If I try to view them on the camera it will lock up the camera too. As to the ammo thing, well not much i can do about that. RSR upped thier prices for 2005. It's still cheaper than everywhere else I've looked though. |
| Sorry to say, but I think Rob940 is right. Sounds like the microdrive is toast. A reformatting might fix it, but you'd lose the pics, of course. You should at least try some data recovery software first. There are a few out there with a free trial period. (Well at least one - a friend at work used one to pull pics off a Sony memery stick before reformatting.) If the pics are really important, you could try sending it in to a place that specializes in data recovery from hard drives, but be prepared to pay big $$. |
They might not be important to anyone else bt they are to me, plus there are rare photos of me. I'm not normaly one to be in front of a camera, I like to be the one operating it. 
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fixed it for ya 
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 A lot easier to read when you highlight, man.... 
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Funny But sick.. 
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