GH2 GH2 Footage, SDHC Read Error

[Gary Huff]

I have two clips of GH2 footage I need to get off a Transcend 16GB SDHC card. I get the read error on my Mac (Error -36) as well as in-camera. Any recommendations for recovery software?

 

[DPStewart]

Yeah - there are two programs from Panasonic.
1. AVCCAM SD Card File Recovery.exe
2. AVCCAMRestorer.exe

See if you can Google up a good download source.
These are the Windows versions but you'll find the MAC versions listed right along with them.

 

[Gary Huff]

Yeah - there are two programs from Panasonic.
1. AVCCAM SD Card File Recovery.exe

This one did the trick, thanks! So for "best practices", should I run a test on this SD card to see if it was just a fluke error (if so, any thing I should look into to test it with?) or would you just toss the card and replace it (i.e. one strike and yerrrr out!)?

 

[DPStewart]

This one did the trick, thanks! So for "best practices", should I run a test on this SD card to see if it was just a fluke error (if so, any thing I should look into to test it with?) or would you just toss the card and replace it (i.e. one strike and yerrrr out!)?

Some say that if you reformat it IN-CAMERA and it tests OK then they'd still use it...as for me, it's a trust issue...and I'm sorry Mr. SD Card...but I shall always look at you with suspicion. The only card I had do this to me I now only use to load hacks, and for that it has been fine. But these teeny little SD Cards just give me the Willies. Ya know?

 

[Gary Huff]

But these teeny little SD Cards just give me the Willies. Ya know?

I try to buy the good brands (this is a Transcend, but if I replace it, it will be one of the new Sandisk's) and this has been the first time anything like this has happened to me. Well, aside from one cheaper card that completely came apart on me, but I was able to keep it together long enough to pull the data off, then I threw it away.