Photo card recover help PLEASEEEEEEEEE

travelchick

Hello All,

I have just gone to use my memery card and my rubbish old laptop suddenly changed the files onto something wierd instead of being dcm files they are a random gibberish of letters and symbles and i cant open the file?
I have been online at card recovery and downloaded one which showed all the photos are still on the card and recoverable but I have to pay $50 to save them to my pc :-(
does anyone know if I can recover them for free? or is my only opetion to pay these internet companys for a one of use of their softwear?
im on a different laptop now so it shouldnt happen again once ive got the photos back.

Thanks for any info in advance
xxx

closed

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/

travelchick

just downloading that now, thank you for the link, sadly its the same as the other you have to pay $40 to make it work?
Does anyone know of any free ones?
xxx

debitcardmayhem

http://www.piriform.com/recuva free , don't know what you've clicked on

travelchick

i must have clicked on a cheeky pop up or something lol,
I installed this one it only opens the pictures that are already ok to open, it says unrecoverable on the free one :-(
thank you so much anyway,

If anyone else has any idea on free or cheap recoverly ones please let me know x

simon.griggs

Dear Travelchick,

One of the best things I have found for recovering files in your situation is Photo Rec. It is Open Source, and consequently a free download.

You can get it from here, http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download

Download it to your machine, extract the folder from the zip file, then double click the Win folder followed by the file photorec_win application file.

If you need any further assistance PM me and I have a few other options as well for you to try.

I hope this helps.

Simon.

travelchick

awww Simon thats fantastic, thank you I will try that now and let you know how i get one :-)

x

closed

recuva is completely free, the download is on the top right of the paged linked to, it's labelled "Download latest version", and called rcsetup142.exe

travelchick

Hiya Closed,

I am grateful for the link it was free I had clicked on the wrong thing, sadly it didnt unlock my files but I have kept it just in case I need it again lol

Hi Simon,

That did work thank you so much all the photos have been restored into that testfile Im equilly grateful for your help
Thank you again so much

xxxx

fenlander_uk

I never had any luck with Recuva, but I have had very good results with Minitool Power Data Recovery. The current version (6.6) has a 1GB limit on free recovery, but older versions are really free.
Version 6.6 is available here - if you have less than 1GB to recover. I believe you can recover more, but only 1GB at a time.
Version 6.0 is available here.