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how to sucessfully recover lost data on a mini SD card

Would anyone know how to recover data (videos, images etc) lost while trying to format a mini SD card on a mobile phone?? are there any tried and tested ways that people have sucessfully used ?? please do let me know. thanx

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  • fwor
    fwor Posts: 6,930 Forumite
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    If you have a card reader that will allow you connect the card to your PC via a USB port then you might want to try this:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/

    It's an open source based boot CD which includes a utility called TestDisk which will examine any drive (even a USB pendrive) and try to find/repair any partitions on it.
  • roddydogs
    roddydogs Posts: 7,479 Forumite
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    i heard you can do this-provided you havent "Used" the card again ie installed more data
  • isofa
    isofa Posts: 6,091 Forumite
    Try Recuva: http://www.recuva.com
  • epninety
    epninety Posts: 563 Forumite
    Would anyone know how to recover data (videos, images etc) lost while trying to format a mini SD card on a mobile phone?? are there any tried and tested ways that people have sucessfully used ?? please do let me know. thanx

    sounds more like "... lost while *successfully* formatting ..." to me :rotfl:

    SanDisk used to supply a program called RescuePro with some of their cards, which seems quite good. A lot more techie to use, but WinHex has recovered stuff that I couldn't get back with more 'usual' software - but a lot of effort unless the stuff is really worth saving.
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