**I apologize in advance if this is the wrong board for my question! I wasn't SURE, I first posted it under SOFTWARE, but I think that it should have been here. Either way, if I'm in the wrong area, it wasn't intentional!*

I've been using Microsoft Picture It 7.0 for a couple of years now. It was on my computer when I bought it, and has been a great basic photo editing program for me. Yesterday, when I put my card in the SanDisk reader I've also had as long as I've had this program, always has worked completely fine, I get a pop up ERROR message that says my disc needs to be formatted, do I want to format it now? If I click no, the box disappears and I am taken to my pictures folder. If I click yes, I get another pop up box that says disc unable to be formatted. What the heck? I have pics on my disc I really need to download as they are of my CAR I'm trying to sell, and I have no other way to download them, as my camera didn't come with the correct cord. Can someone tell me why this would be happening out of the blue? I've changed nothing on my computer, camera, memory card, nothing. It's all the same equipment I've been using for the past couple of years. Help!This is not uncommon, you should start keeping backups of important data. This might work: http://www.piriform.com/recuvaHow can I keep a back up of something I can't even download? I'm confused....?? I don't need to restore anything, I can't get the photos from my camera/memory card to my computer. I'm totally lost now!What CC is suggesting is to DLoad install and run Recuva...and run it on the memory stick and Copy/Move the recovered files to a folder on your hard drive.

If you format that card ALL your data and pictures will be gone.

You may also want to try that card in another machine as well to retrive and burn to CD what you need.
The Sandisk reader may be the culprit here...So I download that program, hook up my card reader and it'll tell me what to do? I downloaded the program, hooked up my reader and tried to do the scan, but it says "The parameter is incorrect." Quote

You may also want to try that card in another machine as well to retrive and burn to CD what you need.
The Sandisk reader may be the culprit here...