Have you ever been in situation, when the "F-word" comes to mind and slips off your tongue? Well, I just had it - this weekend. After the wedding I successfully downloaded the photographs from the first CF and inserted the second one into the card reader. Ooops - nothing, all the images are lost. How come? I just looked at those images!
OK. This wasn't the best moment of my life. The CF card had about 800(!) images that could be lost forever. Why do I say "could be"? Because I had the faith and knowledge to be sure that the images were still on the CF, but somehow the FAT (File Allocation Table) on the card was corrupted.
So, when I came home, I started looking for solution - searched on "FAT recovery repair". One of the links that come up was - DiskInternal.
As it turned out, they have several solutions to recover lost files. And there is a good while simple in use tool - DiskInternals Flash Recovery. It works specifically with flash cards (removable drives) and recovers lost images. You don't have to know anything about the technicalities - simply press the button and your images are back! That's what saved me. Otherwise the image you see here would be lost as many others.
I suggest that before buying the software you try the trial version to see that it will recover your images. The trial images allow you to save only small files. The full version costs $39.