Shoutbox

A friend's SD card has some problems. It is a 128MB Lexar card, and reports itself as 100% full (432 KB free), yet there is almost nothing on it. In the root directory there is a file named NIKON001.DSC which is less that 1KB, and when opened in Wordpad is just a bunch of spaces. There is a folder named MISC countaining AUTPRINT.MRK and order.njb, both under 1KB. And the DCIM\100NIKON\ directory is empty.

She remembers there being photos on there which she could view on her camera, but now the camera will not show the photos or take any more, as the card reports itself as being full.

I haven't been able to find any similar problems on Google. I tried a few different data recovery programs, and the only one that found anything was a trial version, which just said that is found 7 files, you had to buy it to recover the files. I tried 3 or 4 freeware programs, all of which said there were no files found.

Has anyone ever come across something like this? Any suggestions on data recovery programs or any other method of getting any information off the card? Or is it just dead? Would reformatting allow the card to be used again? If so, is it likely that this problem will re-occur?

Thanks a lot everyone!

Dallin