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Doreen LeGrand Posted on Jul 24, 2012
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My Canon eos Rebel xs was working fine for over a year. Now it is telling me that my Card is not Formatted. Is there anyway to retrieve the pictures be for I format?

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1). Do not format this memory card in case that the formatting process would make everything worse.
2). Do not save anything new on this memory card in case that any new file rewrites your original photos.
3). Insert this memory card to your computer via a card Reader.
4). Apply a deleted picture recovery freeware:
http://blog4mark.blogspot.com/2012/12/photo-recovery-after-delete.html
This data recovery freeware can easily restore all your deleted photos back from this formatted memory card successfully just in the same way as it completely restores all the data of my friend off from his inaccessible camera.
Here is some detailed information of this freeware:
http://www.formatrecovery.blogspot.com/2013/02/recover-data-after-formatting.html
5). Do not save the restored data on the same memory card in case of any data recovery failure.
Note: I hope you can get accustomed to back all important data up on different drives or cards all the time.

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Yes off course! you can recover the photos if formatted. Yodot photo Recovery is a software that would help you to get your photos back. Its gives 100% result. This would definitely help you. It recovers all types of photos. It even recover photos after format on mac. You can try the trial version as they are providing it also.

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ALTERNATE WAY TO TRANSFER PHOTOS TO COMPUTER
If your photos are stored on the memory card, then removethe memory card from the camera and insert it into an USB memory card reader.Connect this USB memory card reader and memory card into the USB port of yourworking computer. Your computer will see this as an USB Mass Storage Device oran external storage device; you can then open the folder on the memory card andcopy the photos to your computer.Memory card reader is a handy device and is inexpensive. Youcan copy photos from other cameras and you can also download photos off yourmemory card to someone else's computer without the need of installing anyprograms.

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  • Posted on Dec 01, 2007

SOURCE: Incompatible JPEG format

you are most probably looking at the pictures from the camera screen.... if you use a CF card reader and view them on the PC through internet explorer or any other software they will be fine..

You get this error when the files have been changed on the CF card by anything aside from the camera

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 16, 2009

SOURCE: Canon rebel XS error 99

Instead of taking out the battery, just open and close the battery compartment to reset the camera.

SVRGuy02 is right, set the slep time longer to avoid the issue so much and just open and close the battery compartment before beginning each shooting exercise

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  • Posted on Aug 21, 2009

SOURCE: Error 99 in Canon EOS Rebel XS 1000d

Have you been to the support section of Canon's website to find out what "error 99" means?

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Sep 29, 2009

SOURCE: Have Canon EOS Rebel Xsi Digital. Burning smell and flash busy.

Are you trying to use the flash when you are having the problem? Were you taking a lot of pictures with flash when the problem started? Rapid pictures with flash can melt the flash and capacitors in the camera. Also, a single drop of water rolling around inside the camera in the right place can do things like that. You can try taking pictures in bright sunlight so the camera will not try to use the flash and see if it will work normally, If it does than something is probably fried in the flash system. Bad thing is that if you smelled smoke something is most likely already fried and will have to be repaired by canon. Canons quality has been going down hill for several years now and they have a lot of quality problems. If the camera has been used very little, has never been abused, dropped or wet and not far out of warranty, try using google to see if this is a common problem and call canon and try to get them to repair it for free. If all else fails threaten to replace it with a Nikon assume pay to have barely used camera fixed.

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  • Posted on Dec 19, 2009

SOURCE: Canon Rebel XS displays busy signal after I take a

Is your card nearly full? Is your battery fully charged?

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