Mainter Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 (edited) ok i have a canon powershot S2 IS i had pictures on it but my little brother got a hold of it and deleted them my i do not have a memory card reader all i got is a usb cable connected to the camera to get the pictures off of the camera onto the computerProblem Is: there are recovery programs out there but it will not pick up the cameras memory card storage because the computer doesn't assign it a Drive Letter so recovery tools cannot find it, it gives it the name of Canon PowerShot S2 IS.My Question: how do i assign the camera a Drive Letter so recovery tools are able to pick up on it or even is there a program that is able to read storage devices in this way? Edited January 29, 2006 by Mainter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 I have used this program to recover fiels from a usb harddrive, you do not need drive letters. It can just search devices. Their is a free trial. You can see if it works, but to actually save the pictures you will need to give them $70. I think it was money well spent.http://www.recovermyfiles.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mainter Posted January 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 I have used this program to recover fiels from a usb harddrive, you do not need drive letters. It can just search devices. Their is a free trial. You can see if it works, but to actually save the pictures you will need to give them $70. I think it was money well spent.http://www.recovermyfiles.com/just downloaded it and installed hooked my camera up and plugged it in the computer the regular screen came up went to do the search it only listed my complete hardrive and c partition and d partition and my external harddrive no camera Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted January 29, 2006 Report Share Posted January 29, 2006 you may have luck pulling the card and placing it in a card reader. Then the computer should be able to access ithttp://support.getdata.com/?_a=knowledgeba...ondetails&_i=69 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mainter Posted January 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 alright thanks for the advice i borrowed a memory card reader from a friend popped it in the usb and the card popped right up and restored my pictures Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 (edited) cool, glad you were able to retrieve them. So does that mean you spent the $70 to save the files to your harddrive? If you did, it is money well spent. You can use the program again in the future. As far as I could tell their are no linits for using it. Edited January 31, 2006 by shanenin Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mainter Posted January 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 no i did not use that program i already had one called file scavanger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted January 31, 2006 Report Share Posted January 31, 2006 no i did not use that program i already had one called file scavangerthat looks like a good program; it is also $25 less expensive then the one I reccomended Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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