Please someone help me if you can, because I am very puzzled. Okay here is the story.. I got this camara last July and a memory card of course so I could take tons of pictures at a time. Well it was dandy and going great, I could get pictures off of it and onto my computer.. until now. A couple days ago I was switching up the batterys trying to find ones that were actually workable. They were all dead so I put back in the ones that I originally had in it. Well when I went to go view my pics it says no file. And I thought "stupid camara erased all the pics off of my memory card. but then I remembered I had locked a couple and it can't delete them if they are locked. Also on the main screen instead of 300 or what ever pictures left it says 25. When I but the memory card in the tower of my computer and I went to my computer then clicked on it.. all that pops up is do you want to format? and of course I put no because I have memorable pictures on it that I would like to keep. I have also tried putting the card back in my camara and hooking it up with a USB cord. but it does the same thing Is there anything that I can do to at least get my pictures first and then format it?

I don't know why you posted this thread in Digital Home Forum instead of Digital Photo/Video Forum. In any case try this freeware that in some case will recover digital camera files. Good luck. Oh next time you want to play with the camera battery, always first eject the memory card & store it elsewhere. You never know what playing with the camera can do to the SD memory card. i_XpUser