FAT32 broken filesystem

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi,

I have an SD FAT32 card with some valuable pictures. I’m able to browse through the pictures on a digital camera, however once I plug the camera to the computer using USB cable I can’t see any files stored on the SD card. I can see the files stored on the camera’s internal memory.

Plugging the digital card inside an SD card reader under windows doesn’t show any files, however it says that 97% of the capacity is used (which happens to be true). I tried repairing the filesystem using windows inbuilt tools with no results whatsoever.

Is it possible to recover the files using openSUSE ?
Any thoughts will be appreciated.

Best regards,
Greg

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On 2010-12-05 22:06, glistwan wrote:

> Is it possible to recover the files using openSUSE ?
> Any thoughts will be appreciated.

Some links, software. The links are in Spanish.

Code:

PhotoRec recupera ficheros de tarjetas de memoria (de
cámaras) borradas. 20090412
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

http://www.pdatungsteno.com/2006/05/26/recuperar-datos-de-tarjetas-de-memoria-cds-o-discos-duros-tras-un-desastre/
http://www.dzoom.org.es/noticia-1780.html

http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/es/downloads/recuperación_de_tarjeta_flash_gratis/
http://www.ondata.es/recuperar/dispositivos-fotograficos.htm

I got those googling some time ago. You could do the same and get similar
results in English. PhotoRec was the one that worked, IIRC.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)

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I don’t understand Spanish but I’ll check those out :slight_smile:
Thanks.

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Ok thanks for help :slight_smile: I got the pictures back. All of them by simply mounting the SD card under openSUSE. Open source is truly wonderful.

Best regards,
Greg