Need help salvaging photos from Digital Wallet.

Hi,

I have a 3G Digital Wallet from Minds@Work and have used it
quite a few times. So far so good until now...

I just came back from a trip and I have stored 12 uploads from
my compact fash card (256M) during the trip. Now back at home,
I have problem reading one of these 12 uploads (the 6th upload).
I couldn't open the folder on a Windows XP system with the
digital wallet connected. The other 11 are fine. I then tried
to upload it back to the CF card and manage to upload about 100
of the 300+ photos in that download. It said it has some errors.

I'm thinking of taking out the hard disk and connect it directly
to a computer and try to salvage the other files. I am trying
to find out the partition and file formats of the Digital Wallet
and couldn't find much info on the net.

Does anyone have information about the disk partition format
of the Digital Wallet? Is it a simple FAT patition? I would
greatly appreciate any info regarding the disk/partition format
of the digital wallet hard disk.

Thanks.
Raymond

Raymond Leung wrote:

Hi,

I have a 3G Digital Wallet from Minds@Work and have used it
quite a few times. So far so good until now...

I just came back from a trip and I have stored 12 uploads from
my compact fash card (256M) during the trip. Now back at home,
I have problem reading one of these 12 uploads (the 6th upload).
I couldn't open the folder on a Windows XP system with the
digital wallet connected. The other 11 are fine. I then tried
to upload it back to the CF card and manage to upload about 100
of the 300+ photos in that download. It said it has some errors.

I'm thinking of taking out the hard disk and connect it directly
to a computer and try to salvage the other files. I am trying
to find out the partition and file formats of the Digital Wallet
and couldn't find much info on the net.

Does anyone have information about the disk partition format
of the Digital Wallet? Is it a simple FAT patition? I would
greatly appreciate any info regarding the disk/partition format
of the digital wallet hard disk.

Thanks.
Raymond

I have no specific knowledge about the specs of Digital Wallet. My
guess is it's just another simple ATA-type drive with a FAT-16 or FAT-32
translator (depending on capacity). Since you have access to Winders-XP
w/Plug n' Pray, plug that puppy in on the secondary drive channel
connector. If that doesn't seem to work right off, be certain the sec
channel is enable in BIOS. If the drive spins up, Winders just may be
able to automagically figure out the translator. If it was me, I'd give
it a shot.

--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

Raymond Leung wrote:

Hi,

I have a 3G Digital Wallet from Minds@Work and have used it
quite a few times. So far so good until now...

I just came back from a trip and I have stored 12 uploads from
my compact fash card (256M) during the trip. Now back at home,
I have problem reading one of these 12 uploads (the 6th upload).
I couldn't open the folder on a Windows XP system with the
digital wallet connected. The other 11 are fine. I then tried
to upload it back to the CF card and manage to upload about 100
of the 300+ photos in that download. It said it has some errors.

I'm thinking of taking out the hard disk and connect it directly
to a computer and try to salvage the other files. I am trying
to find out the partition and file formats of the Digital Wallet
and couldn't find much info on the net.

Does anyone have information about the disk partition format
of the Digital Wallet? Is it a simple FAT patition? I would
greatly appreciate any info regarding the disk/partition format
of the digital wallet hard disk.

Thanks.
Raymond

I have no specific knowledge about the specs of Digital Wallet. My
guess is it's just another simple ATA-type drive with a FAT-16 or FAT-32
translator (depending on capacity). Since you have access to Winders-XP
w/Plug n' Pray, plug that puppy in on the secondary drive channel
connector. If that doesn't seem to work right off, be certain the sec
channel is enable in BIOS. If the drive spins up, Winders just may be
able to automagically figure out the translator. If it was me, I'd give
it a shot.

--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

I finally found there is a Yahoo group dedicated to digital wallet:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedigitalwallet/

And a couple web pages that has detail technical information:
http://www.wmuma.com/other/digitalwallet/
http://members.cox.net/steved64/mindstor/

I managed to salvage the upload and got back all my photos
by connecting the digital wallet hard disk directly to
a linux system.

I use the linux disk editor (http://lde.sourceforge.net/)
to fix a couple corrupted sectors in the FAT table by
copying those sectors from a second copy of the FAT
table on the disk.

I'm now happy. :-)

Raymond

I finally found there is a Yahoo group dedicated to digital wallet:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thedigitalwallet/

And a couple web pages that has detail technical information:
http://www.wmuma.com/other/digitalwallet/
http://members.cox.net/steved64/mindstor/

I managed to salvage the upload and got back all my photos
by connecting the digital wallet hard disk directly to
a linux system.

I use the linux disk editor (http://lde.sourceforge.net/)
to fix a couple corrupted sectors in the FAT table by
copying those sectors from a second copy of the FAT
table on the disk.

I'm now happy. :-)

Raymond