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On Sunday, when I changed a lens, I lost all of the photos on my CF card. I found this program in another thread (thanks Tanner):

http://store.lexar.com/imagerescue3/index.cfm

The demo version appears to have found most of the missing files, although I don't have time to let it finish the scan this morning. I assume, though, that you have to pay for the program to actually get the files. I seem to remember reading somewhere that some memory cards come with an image recovery program, but I can't remember where I read that, or find it again easily. Does anyone know which cards have that, since I would rather spend the money on replacing the card than on just the software.

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All Lexar professional memory cards come with that exact software. So that includes the 133x, 300x, 400x and 600x speed cards. I use the 300x CF cards and have not had a problem with any of mine (and considering I have a lot that I interchange very often I think it is pretty darn good.) I have also used the full version of the software to recover other brands of cards and card that i have accidentally deleted everything from and I haven't had any issues and all images have been recovered.

I have started the Recuva program, so I'll see what that finds. I do have a few of the Lexar cards (133x and 300x; not the card that lost the image). However, I no longer have the original receipts and/or packaging, so I probably will need to get a new card in order to get the software. I do want to replace this card anyway, since I won't trust it any more.

The Recuva program found 559 files, but the files were not recovered with the reason "The volume for a file has been externally altered so that the opened file is no longer valid." I'll have to replace the memory card with a Lexar one tomorrow.

I want to know, did you lose the pictures because of the camera or the card?

How can I tell? The loss did happen when I changed lenses. I would like to know the cause too.

Was the camera powered on during the lens change?

I'm pretty sure I had turned the camera off before changing lenses. It was something I thought about as soon as I lost the photos, so I would have remembered if I had forgot to turn it off.

No luck with the Image Rescue software that came with the Lexar card. Even though it shows the thumbnails, when I tell it to Recover the files, I get files with a size of 0 bytes. If I try to open one of them in Windows Gallery, it can't open the picture, and it says 4.38 MB (0x0).