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Well to somewhat dwarf the worry of my SD card loss, my 500GB external hard drive decided to give up on me. I think it might have been moved while writing. Or something. I don't know. Either way, it's gone! New years resolution: To look after technology better and hope it looks after me too!

Thank you all very much for your kind advice. I appreciate it.

Happy new year to all you lot!

CMW

I really feel like all 32gbs of Data is lost. I simply cannot afford to spend hundreds of pounds for a company to attempt to restore it. Just such a shame. I feel like i've just lost a load of paintings in a fire. I take such pride over every second of footage I take. I was really enjoying getting to grips with ML, and this happening has made me a little weary. I know it's unlikely it's actually ML's fault, and more likely the card...but even still.

It is a 32GB Sandisk Ultra SDHC class 10

   I must have really angered the gods some how. I was specifically putting it into my macbook to back it up so this wouldn't happen.

I had literally just told my uncle as I was doing it how some cards of mine had messed up in the past but I had managed to recover the data. Then this happened. Bah humbug.

Thanks for your advice anyway. If anyone else has any bright ideas i'm all ears.

Merry Christmas.

cmw

I have 2 usb readers and it works in neither. Tried reading it from the camera through my macbook also. It doesnt really recognise it when i plug it into my macbook, but about 1 in 10 times some data recovery software i have does recognise it. The diagnostics i have run on it really don't look good. I guess my question is, do you think a company will be able to retrieve the data? It's a 32GB card, and isn't that old at all. Thank you.

So today I tried to copy a load of data from a 32GB sd card to my computer, as I was working on a video I filmed of a friends concert. The card had been working and reading just fine. For some reason today it wasn't recognised in my mac by the SD card reader. So i tried again, and again and again. Then I tried it in the camera, and i got a load of errors. Something like ML/data/fonts.dat not found. Also the graphics on my Camera screen were screwed up. I have potentially lost hours of carefully set up filming work from when I was out in Spain, as well as the only footage in existence of my baby nieces christening. I am running a data recovery analysis on the card right now, because after placing the card in my computer a load of times, one of the times the data recovery software recognized the card reader. So far the analysis it is doing doesn't look good. I am creating a disk image through it, but apart from the first 'block' all the other 'blocks' are red, which means 'bad sector'.

I feel physically ill, first that I have let my friends down with their show, but also all my family with the footage of my niece Mollie.

Does this problem sound at all familiar to anyone else? Can anyone give me some re-assurance there is some way of me getting this data back? I don't want this to ruin my Christmas but this is seeming extremely likely...

Any help any of you can give will be massively appreciated.