Digital cameras forum: Can I recover my photos?

I'd try a recovery program like Recuva (free download). If that doesn't work, google PHOTO RECOVERY and pick your choice of free and paid tools. Be sure not to pay before you know the program indeed finds your pictures.

Kees

You think i could get back my photos by applying some recovery program, like Recuva.But i am not very familiar about these recovery program, especially Recuva. Moreover , it is freeware. The old saying always says:"No pains,no gain."so i am really doubtful about it, could you just tell me much more about it? or could you furtherly describe your situation to me?

i am sorry , you may misunderstand my words. i merely want know much more information about Recuva, not to want a paid programs.usually , when encountering two things , one need to pay, the other do not need to pay, we definitely would choose free one. so ......
OK! in a one word , i will use Recuva to take a chance!

Before I share the link, the titles range from free, free to try, payware and then recovery houses.

And again, before I share the link, we must NEVER install such to a drive we are attempting recovery from. In fact, any drive/device we are hoping to recover content from must NEVER be written to. We scape out our content before we write to it again.

With that out of the way, the CNET Storage forum "Lost and Found" sticky link follows.
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7588_102-354911/lost-and-found-or-the-storage-forum-sticky/

Lots of good advice there, not all from me!
Bob

I have searched the words: freeware to recover SD card on the internet. i have read a lot of persons have ever encountered these problem. and there are also many people that advice me to use iCare Data Recovery Free and its link http://download.cnet.com/iCare-Data-Recovery-Free/3000-2248_4-75628752.html, how do you think z about it ?

To keep it that way, stop "plunging". Apply whatever your camera comes with - cable, cradle, etc., for transfers of photos. Just do not use the SD card naked, and you will be much more likely not to need Recuva again.
You should also replace the card as soon as it starts showing any corrupt files to make sure your precious pictures will be there, indeed.

I have had this problem also. Its not the chip which has been damaged. Its the software in your PC which is not able to read the card. If you put the chip back in your camera it shows the pictures are OK. You can simply use the USB cord to download to your PC and save the pictures. I don't use the PC to format my picture card, only the camera.
If you do use the PC, just make sure you can still access it from your camera.
I have also used a program called "Card Recovery". Thanks for the info re Recuva.