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Help! I formatted over an SD card full of great shots!
by mclarke - 12/2/05 11:39 AMI had 3 SD cards, was shooting gorgeous stuff in Bryce and Zion national parks, and for a few weeks before had been juggling the cards and backing them up on my Roadstor without incident, but then one day, after shooting two and a half SD cards at Bryce and on my way to Zion, thought to back up the first two and shoot the rest of the third card at Zion. After shooting more at Zion on one of the two other already backed up cards, I made the wrong choice and reformatted the one of Bryce and Zion (the one I hadn't backed up). I have not shot anything on this card since I reformatted. I believe there might be software with which to recover the lost photos, but don't know if I can risk choosing the wrong software for fear of killing my chances of recovering these photos. Has anyone had good experience with recovering photos formatted over on an SD card? Which software is best?
I have recovered from CF cards, but not SD. I expect that
by Kiddpeat - 12/2/05 1:54 PM In reply to: Help! I formatted over an SD card full of great shots! by mclarkeSD cards can be recovered in the same way as CF. Put the card in a reader, and use recovery software. My SanDisk cards came with recovery software (Rescue Pro) that has recovered images that went through more than one reformat cycle.
Which recovery software is best?
by mclarke - 12/3/05 11:45 AM In reply to: I have recovered from CF cards, but not SD. I expect that by KiddpeatI wonder which software is best. Tucows.com lists a few, and downloads.com lists one. I have bought SD cards from Sandisk, but they don't come with software in the package. Just the SD chip. Where did the software come from? I also want to be really sure that using one type of software wouldn't preclude using another type if the first didn't work.
PC Inspector Smart Recovery is free
by rgfitz - 12/4/05 10:24 AM In reply to: Which recovery software is best? by mclarkeI occasionally useCONVAR's PC Inspector Smart Recovery and it always works for my CF, Smartmedia, and MMC cards.
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/download.htm
Is there any danger of ruining the pictures?
by mclarke - 12/4/05 9:57 PM In reply to: PC Inspector Smart Recovery is free by rgfitzWhat I'm afraid of with any recovery software is that if I use it and it doesn't work would it make the next attempt less likely to be successful?
What about SD cards
by mclarke - 12/5/05 8:07 AM In reply to: PC Inspector Smart Recovery is free by rgfitzI'm concerned about using software that has not been
1. demonstrated to work on SD cards
2. demonstrated to recover from an accidental reformat that has not been written over by new photos. We're not talking about recovering from accidental deletions.
Does CNET have a recommendation on something like this?
Problem resolved
by mclarke - 12/7/05 9:16 AM In reply to: What about SD cards by mclarkeI went to Adodorama, here in NYC, and since I'm a loyal customer, they ran the photo recovery software and burned a CD for me for $5. Good to know that mistakes like formatting a SD can be resolved.
Congrats!
by Kiddpeat - 12/7/05 11:27 AM In reply to: Problem resolved by mclarkeI'll bet that's a big sigh of relief, and an exclamation that it's worth every penny.
Which recovery software is best?
by mclarke - 12/3/05 1:59 PM In reply to: I have recovered from CF cards, but not SD. I expect that by KiddpeatI wonder which software is best. Tucows.com lists a few, and downloads.com lists one. I have bought SD cards from Sandisk, but they don't come with software in the package. Just the SD chip. Where did the software come from? I also want to be really sure that using one type of software wouldn't preclude using another type if the first didn't work.
I don't know. Perhaps someone else has a recommendation.
by Kiddpeat - 12/3/05 3:48 PM In reply to: Which recovery software is best? by mclarkeThe software I have came with my memory card which means it was supplied by SanDisk.
If you still don't know, you could take it to a camera store
by Kiddpeat - 12/4/05 6:25 AM In reply to: I don't know. Perhaps someone else has a recommendation. by Kiddpeatthat offers a recovery service. Many do.
The best of the best...for help.
by Papa Echo - 12/4/05 3:15 AM In reply to: Which recovery software is best? by mclarke..since you bought the SD card from SanDisk, back to SanDisk you go for advice.
Testing Recovery Software
by Mgood - 12/13/05 1:11 PM In reply to: Which recovery software is best? by mclarkeTask: prove to yourself that a specific recovery utility will recover valuable photos from your SD card: Take some pictures on a test SD card. Format the test card then run the recovery software. If the recovery utility fails to restore the test photos then repeat this process until you find a utility that works 5 times in a row. THEN you can feel condifent to use that utility on the SD card that contains your valuable photos.
Memory card/memory stick/USB flash drive file recovery.
by mackproduction951 - 12/12/05 7:00 AM In reply to: I have recovered from CF cards, but not SD. I expect that by KiddpeatMy bro owns a digital camera rental shop. He is often asked by the customers to recover some photos they have taken and lost when they reformatted the memory card or memory sticks by mistake.
He has recovered files using the same software "Rescue Pro" by SanDisk on many of his different types of memory cards and memory sticks for his digital cameras. He was able to recover files without any problems.
However, I have once heard from others that recovering files on formatted USB Flash Drives are also possible with Rescue Pro. But For me not actually trying this on USB flash drives with Rescue Pro, i can't really say if it works without any problems or not.
Hope what I wrote above further explains all of this reformatted file recovery issues.
Deleted or formatted
by tasuray - 12/4/05 8:53 PM In reply to: Help! I formatted over an SD card full of great shots! by mclarkeIf you deleted the shots,it is possible to recover until you take the next photo.But unfortunately if you format the SD card chance of recovery is very feable.
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