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by Dan Wolin on Fri Oct 12, 2007 6:46 am
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A friend of mine borrowed my MKII and Sandisk III card to shoot a race this weekend. While over to download the photos, the CF reader became unplugged. When we plugged it back in, we could not get the data to read either in the camera or on the computer. I have been pulling the images off with recovery software. If I re-format the card, I assume it will be oK? I am not sure if unplugging the reader caused that either?

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:00 am
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Yeah it will be fine when you reformat. What happened is that the File Allocation Table (FAT) which tells the OS exactly where every part of every file is, got corrupted since it was unplugged during a write. There is nothing physically wrong with the card, just the file that keeps track of the data on it is now corrupt. Formatting will reset this.
 

by Dan Wolin on Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:13 am
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Thanks EJ.
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