I had the very same thing happen to a memory card once. I didn’t think there was a solution so I reformatted the card. I found out several years later that if you do not reformat the card, you can have a high quality photo developing lab retrieve the data from your card for you. In fact, they can retrieve all of the photos taken on the card since the last formatting. Check the photos labs in your town to see if any of them offer this service. One that also sells cameras and offers other photography services would be the most likely one to be able to do this.
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I managed to re-animate my operating system from the backup copy I had on the partition, but obviously all my recent files are lost. (I’ve backed up files previously, but not for the last few weeks). I’ve put in a second hard drive to recover files from c: to, but the PC won’t ascribe a drive letter. I’ve got a 200GB drive with C: and D: (as the OS backup partition) on a SCSI. There are 2 SCSI ports on my motherboard. I’ve also got 2 optical drives running as master and slave on one IDE and now I’ve connected a 320GB drive to the other IDE. I’ve tried attaching via the master and slave sockets on the IDE and changing the jumpers from factory setting (cable select) to device 1 (slave) and device 1 (slave present). The hardware manager accepts that there is a hard disk drive present, but won’t give it a drive letter. It also claims that ‘this device is working properly’!