
Hi everyone,
I recently took a trip and shot on my Nikon Z5. While checking the photos on the camera, some of them randomly showed a "cannot be displayed" error.
When I transferred the files to my PC, the thumbnails won't show up. When I try to open them, I get a Windows error saying: "It looks like we don’t support this file format."
The files are RAW (NEF) and are still around 30MB each, so it looks like the actual data (or at least most of it) is definitely still there and wasn't completely wiped.
One major detail: The SD card says "SanDisk" on it, but I bought it at a local shop in Vietnam during my trip, so I have a strong feeling it might be a counterfeit/fake card that corrupted the files.
Has anyone dealt with this specific corruption before? Is there any reliable way, tool, or software to repair the headers or recover these NEF files? I'd really hate to lose these travel memories.
Thanks in advance!