# Pictures stuck on CF2 Card, help. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 26, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-stuck-on-cf2-card-help/497742 "2009-05-26T23:06:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-stuck-on-cf2-card-help/497742/1 "2009-05-26T23:06:54Z")
Okay, so I should have known this was jinxed right away. I was going on a vacation. I grab my camera and look for a memory card. Ahh, there’s one right in the card reader. I pull it up to make sure it’s empty. Hmmm, why does the computer want me to format it? Strange, whatever. I put it in my camera, take a couple of pictures and take a look. Odd, it didn’t record any of them. So I format the card, take a couple more, review, yup they saved, were in business. Get home, put the card in the card reader, it’s still asking me to format the card. I put the card back in the camera and I can review them just fine on the camera LCD. So I plugged the USB cable into the camera and I still can’t see them on the computer. Any ideas? I’m guessing the card is corrupted, but since I can see them on the camera I’m wondering if there’s any hope of getting at them. At least they were crummy pictures. I brought the wrong lens and it was a REALLY boring town (Munising, MI). ---
**Author:** ![sharding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@sharding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sharding)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-stuck-on-cf2-card-help/497742/2 "2009-05-27T01:39:01Z")
There are a lot of apps out there for recovering images from corrupt or erased cards. It’s been a few years, but I have had good luck with [Lexar’s Image Rescue](http://www.lexar.com/software/image_rescue3.html) (the version I used was included with the cards I bought). ---
**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-stuck-on-cf2-card-help/497742/3 "2009-05-27T12:51:09Z")
> [@sharding](#): > > There are a lot of apps out there for recovering images from corrupt or erased cards. It’s been a few years, but I have had good luck with [Lexar’s Image Rescue](http://www.lexar.com/software/image_rescue3.html) (the version I used was included with the cards I bought). I have used V 3 to recover photos from a card that had been formatted twice. On the other hand I’ve failed to recover images from a card that had not been formatted. :smack: So I guess it depends on the issue, but worth a try and the software’s free. Available [here](http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/08/30/free-fully-licensed-retail-version-lexar-image-rescue-3-software/) ---
**Author:** ![Aestivalis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Aestivalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aestivalis)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pictures-stuck-on-cf2-card-help/497742/4 "2009-05-27T13:21:53Z")
Could also be a problem with your card reader. Have you tried sticking a USB cable into the camera while the card is in?