Hey everyone, I recently posted a 512mb CF card to a friend. It arrived in 2 pieces! Over 500 photos, 7 weeks of my trip to Australia!! Basically the tops come off it so you can see the chips - which appear undamaged. I have sticky taped the two pieces together to try and read in 2 digital cameras/USB card reader. None of which will recognise theres a disc in there so I can't recover thru software. Conclusion: I need to send it to someone who can basically either read the chips some other way, or simply fix the b---tard! Tried contacting the manufacturer - Viking Interworks - they didn't wanna know, just told me to attempt recovery via recovery software - Doesn't work. Anyone have any ideas? Any at all would be greatly appreciated! Thanks folks, AJ Smith!

Here's an idea> Send the pictures on cd-rom. If it breaks, your out 20-cents instead of >$100. Sooner or later, you will learn to back up your data! 808

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