[Brett Turner]

Hi Dan,

Sorry to hear this, not nice for all concerned. I’m only replying to save you a lot of needless time, and possibly money. I can’t comment on the Sony overheating and causing a format or corrupting the card, but I do have a lot of experience trying to rescue footage and stills from Sony formatted media.

As far as I am aware – and I’d love to be contradicted with proof rather than links to purchase ‘free’ software – a Sony format is destructive and they absolutely cannot be recovered. Apparently Sony’s overwrite a card with 000’s when you format them.

Again, I’d love to be contradicted by a fellow Sony user or rep who has a solution.

I have downloaded just about every program out there with a free trial, and that combined with the above means I’m sure it’s impossible. I’d suggest speaking directly to Sony for an answer rather than spending hours looking for a unicorn app that can reverse time.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I saw your issue and wanted to at least save you a lot of frustration installing apps.

Good luck and all the best –

Brett

[Brett Turner]

Thank you Wolf, I suspect you are right as well. I’m going to get another camera so I have a spare anyway, then this can get sent to Canon for a service / check. There is a possibility it was an ML problem but I honestly have no way of knowing.

Thanks again for the input, good to know that’s not the ‘standard’ sound!!

[Brett Turner]

Two months later and I’ve had one reply on YouTube from someone with basically the same problem. Looks like this has everyone stumped :-/

[Brett Turner]

One week later and no suggestions so far, I’m going to expand the search to the Magic Lantern and Canon forums.