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Help needed to save my bacon!!!!

sayhi77
sayhi77 Posts: 10 Forumite
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Hi There
Pls can you help? I have tried using all types of software to recover my valuable photos but with no luck. If I accidentally formatted the card (still kicking myself :( ) and then took 60 new pictures does that mean all my 300 pictures have been permanently lost? I am so desperate I have even bought a card reader and dl 5 different types of software but they just bring up the existing pictures.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated!

I have lost my OH's birthday pics and our holiday pics too :(

Cheers in advance

x

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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    I'm not sure about memory cards but in general, if you delete something out of the recycle bin the advice is to create or change as little as possible on the drive the file was on, as the clusters (chunks of a file) could be overwritten.

    Have a read of some sites here - http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=recover+photos+from+formatted+memory+card&btnG=Search&meta=
  • Browntoa
    Browntoa Posts: 49,611 Forumite
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    you might have recovered from the format , but taking the new pictures will have overwritten the file space from the originals
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  • Sput2001
    Sput2001 Posts: 1,206 Forumite
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    It's an outside chance, but it's worth trying if you've not sone so already.

    Download Recuva from here and install it. Then get it to run a scan on your card and see what happens. Remember to check the "Enable Deep Scan" box before you start.

    You never know...
  • [Deleted User]
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    NickMidgley wrote: »
    It's an outside chance, but it's worth trying if you've not sone so already.

    Download Recuva from here and install it. Then get it to run a scan on your card and see what happens. Remember to check the "Enable Deep Scan" box before you start.

    You never know...

    From the makers of CCleaner - nice!
  • sayhi77
    sayhi77 Posts: 10 Forumite
    NickMidgley wrote: »
    It's an outside chance, but it's worth trying if you've not sone so already.

    Download Recuva from here and install it. Then get it to run a scan on your card and see what happens. Remember to check the "Enable Deep Scan" box before you start.

    You never know...

    Hi,
    Thanks for your reply, yeah I've tried this software but no luck. Others I've tried are Photorec, cardrecovery, magicrecovery, easyundelete lol and some others too. <sigh> guess I will have to accept my fate lol. My own silly fault anyway.
  • startech
    startech Posts: 59 Forumite
    Have you tried GetDataBack? (http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm). I find it to be one of the best programs available to restore deleted/formatted files. The demo version is free to test whether it can recover anything. If it says it can, then you can choose to purchase a key to restore the files.
  • amd
    amd Posts: 305 Forumite
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    I used PC Inspector Smart Recovery. After trying loads this one came up trumps!

    http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html for download

    - it's freeware - beat that!

    Under File>Settings select 'intensive mode' and good luck.
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  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,872 Forumite
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    Just did a quick test:

    Empty card, take six photos, format card, take one photo.

    Then used PC Inspector File Recovery to try to recover any of the first six photos.

    Result: None found.

    If you formatted the card on the camera, my guess is you stand no chance. If you formatted it on a PC using "Quick Format" you may stand a small chance.

    Having said that, just repeated the test with a Quick Format and, although it found some lost data, it couldn't recover them as images. Not looking hopeful, I'm afraid...
  • amd
    amd Posts: 305 Forumite
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    Just remembered - I didn't reformat the card. It went wonky trying to take a photo with failing batteries in the camera. Camera and computer would only list the last photo and not allow taking any more as card supposedly 'full'. Knowing there were at least 60 others on there I tried loads of software and PC Inspector found most of them, only lost 2 or 3. Afterwards I reformatted and the card is back to normal.
    Money can't buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
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