Why is my SD card not opening?

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I have a SanDisk 1 GB disk for my Panasonic digital camera that has several pictures that I want to download onto my computer. When I put the card into my computer earlier today, it only showed about 40 pictures, out of the 136 that I have on that card. The 40 pictures showed up on my computer screen, which I checked off to download onto my computer. But the other pictures showed up as a blue box & no picture. So I downloaded the 40 that I could see & closed the program. Later today, I put the disk back into the computer, to see if I could check the blue boxes & download those onto my computer & the disk wouldn't open at all. I even took another picture, so see if that would allow it to open, but nothing happened. How do I get to these photos on this card? <*)))><

Update:

Thanks for your excellent information! How do I find out if my computer has a card reader? <*)))><

Update 2:

Oh and is my disk garbage, once I recover my pictures from it?

snowwillow20 · Answer

Sounds like your card is corrupt. You can try this free program.

Try this, Download the program http://www.recuva.com?
You must not take anymore pictures on your card.
You will need a card reader either on your computer or an external USB card reader? Put the card in the card reader, open the recuva program, the welcome to the recuva wizard will open, click on next. next box, choose 'pictures', click on next, next box choose 'on my media card' click next. Check 'enable deep scan' click on start. Wait, for it to do it's magic.

You need to use a card reader either one already in your computer (some have one, some don't). Or buy an external USB card reader. They are around 10.00 and can be found at walmart, bestbuy, frys, probably target.
The problem with built in card readers is that they will usually only read up to a 2G card.

I was not able to recover photos by hooking the camera up to the pc with the usb cord, it just won't work.

This is the important part. Choose the pics you want to recover, then choose recover, a box comes up asking where you want to save to. Choose documents/my pictures or wherever you want to save your pictures too. The pictures ONLY save to your pc and not the card.

Then format your card in the camera, this should be done with every major download to avoid corruption.

? · Answer

you won't have the capacity to get carry of PDF's from the internet directly onto the T/X. (see Calvins positioned up). As for pictures, i will in common terms assume a similar is authentic. To deliver pictures to the T/X via way of a Hotsynce the Palm laptop application does some conversion.

Anonymous · Answer

You may try this solution that helped me before
http://tinyurl.com/panasonic-camera-recovery

good luck!

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