I was recently asked to shoot photos at a wedding of friends and ended up with a memory card that wasn't readable in a camera or in a compact flash drive at all anymore. No idea why this happened, I've been using this camera for about a year now and never had any problems.

Since it was crucial to get the images off anyways I had to look into data recovery tools for the first time. I found PC Inspector and it saved my day. It was pretty slow to get about 400 MB of RAW files off the card but it did the job. I was able to recover all files with the exception of a couple broken ones! So if you ever end up in a similar situation, have a look at this tool.

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