I have just got back from holiday and I plugged my Samsung Digimax L60 into my PC to copy all my photos accross from my 1gig SD card. When the card opened as a USB drive some of the first pics came up as thumbnails but I figured as the others didnt it would take a while. I decided I would just copy the whole camera folder with all the pics and videos when I reconnected it, so I did and it copied about 8 files and threw up an error message on one saying it couldnt copy it. It kept doing this and I tried it on other PC's too with the same results. After that message, if I tried to copy individual files it just threw up another error message about an I/O error. At this stage I could still view the photos and videos on the card through the actual camera. When on another computer when it opened the card there was an option in windows XP to burn all the files to CD, so I tried that and on browesing the CD all the files looked like they were on there but they were 0kb in size, nothing there. When I put the card back in the camera after this it wouldnt recognise it and says no image. If I go into photo mode, it says that I have only 95 still images left and 16mins on video in the current settings, so it sees that there is information on the card. In one PC the drive letter appears of the removable drive (camera) when plugged in, but when I try to open the card it says PLease insert disk into drive F. If I right click properties it says it has a capacity of 949mb, 700 or so mb is used and 200 or so is free, which is about right. In another PC it doesn't tell me this and when I try and open it it just says: D:\ is not accerssible The request could not be performed because of an I/O error I've tried downloading all these recovery programs off the net but nothing works, I think it needs something a bit more thorough. There must be something on it somewhere. One program I tried started scanning and stopped after 3% saying no system files were found. This made me wonder that the system configuration of the card that windows reads has gone, but perhaps the data is still on there somewhere? Are there any places (in UK) that anyone knows of that I could take the card to? I'm scratching my head and I'm really gutted at the mo. I thought that maybe if the programs weren't workingm perhaps it was beacuse the card has to be formatted again for them to try to recover data, but obviously, I don't want to do this, at least until a professional recovery service has looked at it. Any help would be most appreciated.

For some reason there have been quite a number of SD cards with similar problems. I've been able to help two of my friends who were in the same situation as you by using an application called Bad Copy Pro. Here's a link to their web site: http://www.jufsoft.com/badcopy/ Best of luck to you. Kevin