Digital cameras are great – endless capicity, handy, you can delete those crap shots you really shouldn’t have taken …
They’re unfortunately also (like anything else stored on computer) open to wetware (user) errors. One of those was experienced last night, when a very tired wife of mine took a silly shot of myself and wibble putting up a shower-rail. She then decided to delete it – and accidentally hit the “FORMAT” option instead … which wouldn’t have been too bad, but the snaps from the honeymooon were on the card ! 
Needless to say she is a little upset about that ! So … if anyone knows of a way to unformat a SmartMedia card, formatted by a Fuji Finepix A201 camera, I’d be more than happy to hear it.
For anyone who’s interested a ‘dd if=/dev/smartmedia of=file’ only produces a file full of zeros …
Hello, I happened upon your “blog” from Google. I, too, am searching for a way to undelete photos from a FinePix camerea using a SmartMedia card. Here’s what I found : http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=un%2Dformat+smartmedia . Maybe you have found something that works or is tested? Thanks in advance for your help!
Take care,
Jason Lantier
Dallas, Texas, USA