PhaseOne P 20, Reference Manual

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P - Series Reference Manual
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Rescue utility, when a card is unreadable
As previously described it can be pretty crucial to un-
plug a card from the P back while the P back is writing
data to it ( a red light indicates this).
Also disconnecting the battery or power from the
P back, while writing to a card can damage the file
structure.
In emergency situations, when a card is unintentionally
damaged. It might be possible to extract the data or
images anyway by using a special rescue utility "Res-
cue PRO" from the company LC-Technology.
They offer full featured trial versions of their rescuing
software, and on top of that provides a special rescu-
ing service, where you can send in a damaged card, if
it proves that not even their tool can rescue the disk.
LC-Technology can be contacted at:
http://www.lc-tech.com/rescuepro.htm
If data is not an issue, but the card behaves erratically,
try to format it on your computer, as described in the
"CF-card Usage" section.
A CF-card can be damaged to an extent that it is even
hard to format on a Windows computer (the computer
can simply not mount it), but with a little patience it
usually is possible to format the card. Although the
communication with a damaged card is very slow.