I have a 4GB SD card with some family pictures on it that I need to recover. When I insert the card into my card reader, it shows up as an unknown 32MB device (as /dev/sde
) and cannot be mounted. When inserting back into the camera (a Nikon D60), it says the cards needs to be formatted (as does inserting it into a Windows machine). I want to recover all of the pictures on the card (there were others before the family pictures) because I don't know how many I took or their exact sizes (but I believe they were all JPEGs). The card should be formatted as a FAT32 filesystem.
What Linux or Unix utilities are available to recover the files? Can I do it myself or do I need to seek professional help?
Edit: It appears that my card reader has damaged the card in some way, making it unreadable and and unformattable. When I checked another card that was the exact same (save for no files), it "ruined" the second one. I would like to use the second card again, so is there a tool to format a damaged card that doesn't know (or cannot report properly) how large it is?