[shuttertalk]

I was a bit perplexed when my sister in law came to me with a problem with her card. It said that her card was full, but when viewing, there were only 2 shots on it.

So being the smarty pants, I popped a USB cable on and viewed it as a mass storage device on the PC. Funnily enough, there were only 2 files visible. The disk showed 120 megs used though (out of 128mb) so that was very strange.

It was a Olympus mju 410 Digital (i think) and a Olympus 128mb XD card.

Anyone have any ideas? Time to bring out the data recovery tools?

[adam]

Yes, bring out the recovery tools.

My friend had the same sort of problem, but with his compact flash card.
The images I recovered weren't only the ones he wanted from his holiday, but also included many images from his sister's previous trip to sydney! hahaha
but some of them became corrupted (the files, not the images themselves).

Just don't write more/do anything to the card, it'll make it harder to recover.

Bring out the data recovery tools, and be amazed (hopefully)

[adam]

How did it go?
Did you manage to recover?

[shuttertalk]

Oh no... she ended up just formatting the card and losing some pics..

[Kombisaurus]

Just as a little side-note about Olympus cams that use xD...

I had an xD card reader that was "dodgy" (I think it had a dodgy connector or something, as it would only work about 1 in 5 times you plugged it into the PC)... anyway, it managed to "break" one of my xD cards.
The card would no longer even format on the camera, and It seems that formatting the card on PC doesn't help (ie when you put it back in the camera, it asks to re-format it again and then falls over again).

Anyway, I simply took the card into a camera shop and asked if I could try to format it using another (non-olympus) camera that uses xD, and it worked perfectly. The card was fine and could then be re-formatted on the olympus.

Just a handy tip if the same thing happens to you.

Cheers
Adrian