I can view all my holiday pictures on my Nikon CoolPix 7900 but on my PC, only five of more than 50 are viewable. Are there any free programs that will help me recover these damaged/corrupt files from the SD card? Tom Croker
I don't know of any free programs, but LC Technology's Photorecovery 3.0 is worth a go (www.lc-tech.com). It costs $39.95, but you can test a demo version before paying for it.
Backchat: John Cartlidge suggests trying Digital Photo Recover from Art Plus (www.artplus.hr): "It's not fast but it is free!" Colin Leeds points to an open source alternative, PhotoRec (www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec). Marian Harcourt says: "I haven't tried it, but ImageRecall can be downloaded from www.imagerecall.com as a free trial version. There is also a useful little PDF file there, How To Look After Your Memory Cards." Finally, Raymond Dalgleish says: "An excellent alternative is PC Inspector Smart Recovery which costs whatever you wish to donate via PayPal. I have used earlier versions of the program and it did an excellent job, even being able to recover parts of otherwise corrupted image files." Thanks also to many other readers who wrote in.
