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Camera phone deleted all pictures please help

barberboy
barberboy Posts: 194 Forumite
Hi,

I have accidentally deleted all my pics in my camera phone, they were saved to a micro SD card, the phone is a nokia, does anyone know, is there any way to recover the pictures apart from buying a micro SD card reader, can i take it to a shop and have it done or can i do it just by linking my phone to my computer, my comp has an sd card reader but no micro sd reader.

please help.

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  • gjchester
    gjchester Posts: 5,741 Forumite
    barberboy wrote: »
    Hi,

    I have accidentally deleted all my pics in my camera phone, they were saved to a micro SD card, the phone is a nokia, does anyone know, is there any way to recover the pictures apart from buying a micro SD card reader, can i take it to a shop and have it done or can i do it just by linking my phone to my computer, my comp has an sd card reader but no micro sd reader.

    please help.

    Take a look here..

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2504259

    However DO NOT save anything to the card in the mean time, the way deletion works is the file table is reset but the data is still on the card, just marked in the table as emprty. If you try and write something else to the card it writes it tothe first space on the card, where your deleted data may be sitting.
  • BillScarab
    BillScarab Posts: 6,027 Forumite
    Download and install Recuva.

    Attach your phone to your computer as 'data storage' and try running Recuva. You can get adapters to put a micro sd card in so it will fit in a standard SD card slot. See if anyone you know has one as it would be safer to take the misro SD card out of the phone.

    Make sure you don't save anything to the card in the meantime.

    http://www.piriform.com/recuva
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