How Do I Fix A Dead Flash Card?

[(B1) MR_fanny]

thought id post this in the games section as its kinda related.

my friends digital camera flash card kinda died when she tried printing pics at camera house with one of those kiosk thingys. camera is a kodak v530. disk is a sandisk 1gig SD. when we try to turn the camera on it says we need to format so we did but straight after it asks it again. the pc doesnt recognise the camera as a removable storage drive. ive also bought a card reader and it works fine untill i plug that particular card. the pc doesnt recognise it after that. all i need is for it to be bootable and recognised as a drive by the pc so i can use a recovery program to get some pics back for her.

any suggestions tech heads??

cheers.

[Beer Baron]

if you don't want the data on it really badly then just chuck it in the bin. data recovery costs around $80 and is not guarenteed to work. if it doesn't work they wont refund you, but they will give you a credit for next time.

I've had a 1gb card fail and I didn't give a crap about the card but I wanted the pics that were on it (I hadn't downloaded them when it failed). A new sandisk 1gb card is well under $50 so I would just buy a new one.

[Astonish]

plug the card in the card reader then go to control panel/administrative tools/computer management/storage/removable storage you should be able to see your card then go options and fiddle around what ever you want to do format, partition e.t.c i hope it helps

[(B1) MR_fanny]

problem is when i plug the card in the reader its kinda corrupts it and makes it unrecognised. all the other cards work fine.

gave it a good crack but have given up. tried everything under the sun. i deem the card to be officially dead. pitty cause she doesnt even have a comp to dl the pics let alone know how to use one so they were all on her card. ah wells. time to cut losses and move on.

thanks guys.