JackNaylorPE :
The experience from most I have heard who tried similar "store" recovery processes is the $300 is basically a service where they send it to a guy. If the guy can't fix it, ya still out $300.
Best thing I can suggest is to use a card reader .... two possibilities here:
Camera is bad and can't read good card.
Card is bad and nothing will read it.
Hi, I'm having a similar problem but not exact same. Trying to load pics from android phone on computer. SD card placed in a sd transflash adapter and put in the card reader slot on my computer. Got the message the card needed to be formatted. I know it is working fine in the phone. I'm not reformatting. So, I've jacked around with it a bit to see if I get lucky, I put the transflash adapter into a card reader that plugs into USB port. Only then the computer never recognized I had inserted anything. I have since tried going directly in the compt card reader slot and now it isn't recognizing I've inserted anything. Moved it to other usb ports. I had the computer scan usb ports and drives for new hardware, no luck.
Also, I've been having problems with compt recently and just yesterday when through tons of scans by different security programs, I uncheck numerous items in startup and service using msconfig (wondering if went to far and which thing might have caused problem), and the security scans did find a Trojan oqdat.exe (I think that was the name). It was quarantined.
Never had this problem reading the SD card before. Suggestions? how can I figure out which startup file might control this?
thanks for any help
UPDATE: Computer kept acting weird last night and wouldn't close to command prompt at one point. I also went and undid what I had changed in msconfig and restarted computer. It is seeing the files on the card again.