Roger,Marc
Data Rescue 3 has always worked for me . With The DMR it wasn t unusual to get a corrupt card . In every case as the battery drained …the last few captures would not completely write to the card . You could easily find the corrupt images with DR3 …when the last few images were corrupted the write to the card would not be completed …result corrupt card . DR3 always found the other captures .
It can be the card ..but it also can be a battery issue ..even with a fresh battery . When the battery does t supply enough juice …no writes to the 2nd card .
Leica has been weak in this area since the DMR and I ve found similar issues with the M8 etc ..but never my S2.
Try DR3 .
I've sent the CF card off to Sandisk's LC Technologies rather than muck with it and turn a possible minor derailment into an all day train wreak.
I did run the SD card through Sandisk Rescue Pro, and it retrieved 68 files from a previous shoot … but nothing from this shoot. So, per your observation that lacking adequate power, it never even wrote to the SD.
I am somewhat perplexed by all this as the battery showed 100% when installed, and the LCD showed the captures as I progressed … so my deepest hope is that they were written to the CF and something got corrupted toward the end, or the power glitch happened toward the end.
We'll see, but frankly, I am quite worried.
- Marc