Expert: John Oliverio - 12/17/2007

Question
Hello,

I have a Olympus Stylus 710 and took about 80 pictures and can not get them. It apears to be my memory car. I have a Fujifilm x-D Picture Card M 512mb.
And eveytime i try to get the pictures off the car - whether it be on my computer, off the camera, another camera, or at a machine at Walgreens- i can not! It says "Card Error" and will not let me get the picture. I will ask to power down or format. I know that Formating will erase all the pictures- and I do NOT want that.
I REALLY NEED these picture. I was wondering if i could mail you or someone the memory card and someone could PLEASE get the pictures off the cards saftly.

PLEASE help!
ANYTHING you can do would be greatly apperciated!

please let me know ASAP.

thanks so much,
Dustin Skinner
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Answer
Dustin,

You'll have to find a camera store that offers a data recovery service in your area.  But from my experience, the data is lost.  If you can't get access to the card at all, you probably won't be able to get to the pics.  But try a recovery service anyway.