Memory Stick Issue-Need Help

If someone has had success with this problem, let me know. I have 2 Sony Cybershot digital cameras. One for work and one for home. I took Christmas pics with one that had a San Disk memory stick in it. I put the disk in a new HP digital Photo Frame. The pics came up fine. When I removed the stick and put it back in the camera, it keeps saying to reinsert the stick. I have cleaned the tabs with an eraser, reinserted it a hundered or more times, put it in the other Sony Camera, put in my computers card reader, put it back in the photo frame, and it is like it will not recognize the stick anymore. I had a lot of family pics that I will miss.

Any help on recovering when the device is not being recognized?

Some of those (if not all) have a little slider switch to lock out accidental erasure of the files. Look to make sure that the switch (if any) is slid all the way either to lock or unlock. Since the thing is not even recoginzed, the switch may be stuck between positions. Worth a shot.

Gimp.....does the stick have a security feature? I know the one that I have does and needs to have a pass word to access it.....
check it out.

You might try to put the SD card in your camera, and get the USB (or whatever cord your camera came with) and hook the camera to the computer.
I was having the same problem.......hope this helps.

DirtDawber wrote:

Some of those (if not all) have a little slider switch to lock out accidental erasure of the files. Look to make sure that the switch (if any) is slid all the way either to lock or unlock. Since the thing is not even recoginzed, the switch may be stuck between positions. Worth a shot.

No slider on these sticks. They are on my SD cards in another camera. Thanks anyways.

Foxfire wrote:

Gimp.....does the stick have a security feature? I know the one that I have does and needs to have a pass word to access it.....
check it out.

I am not sure how to tell if mine does. It just does not recoginize it no matter what I install it into. Let me know how you know when one uses a pass word.

smith700 wrote:

You might try to put the SD card in your camera, and get the USB (or whatever cord your camera came with) and hook the camera to the computer.
I was having the same problem.......hope this helps.

I tried that too. No luck. Anything else you can think of let me know. Thanks.

I talked to a computer tech today who said that he will try to use a special recovery program on it. It is going to cost me $50.00 if he can recover, no charge if he can't. Sony has the same service, but is $60.00. This is a last resort. The pics mean that much to me.