Friday 15 January 2010

How do I recover data from an SD card?

I had a lot of pictures and a few videos on my camera's SD card and I accidentally deleted them =[
I've tried a bunch of programs but they either didn't work or you had to pay money which I can't....
Does anyone know what I should do????

If you used the card after deleting all your image files, you may have lost them for good.

What to do

1) spend about $35 for Rescue3 published by Lexar and use the card reader on your computer. If it does not have one, you will need to buy a USB 2.0 card reader (about $10)
2) take the card into a camera store like Ritz, Wolf or Kitt's. Most of them will recover your images for $40.
3) take the card to a computer data recover shop and have them attempt to recover your files ($300 with or without recovery)

In the future. Do NOT delete any images from your memory card, ever. Instead always copy all the files to your computer ASAP after you have been out shooting. Then once those images are safely on the computer, format the card using the format feature on you camera, not the computer

Answer by fhotoace on 01 Jan 2010 01:47:35

You can often recover deleted pictures successfully from a PC, camera memory card or USB Memory stick. It all depends on what has happened since you deleted the pictures.

When you delete pictures (or any files) the data itself isn't deleted, just the index entry that tells the system where the data for those files is located. The area containing the deleted data is also now marked as free space so it is available for any new files to be written there instead.

If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover your deleted pictures so it is very, very important to not save any new files or data to the device concerned.

One of the easiest ways to see if you can recover deleted pictures is to try some photo recovery software.

A good tip is to try the free trial version of a commercial product that will scan the device for deleted pictures and show you exactly what pictures can be recovered. At least that will show you if you can recover the deleted pictures or if it's too late already. You can find more useful information on how to recover deleted pictures at [URL Truncated]

Answer by Top Chap on 02 Jan 2010 09:45:51
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use asoftech photo recovery pro, it helped me many time to recover photos, videos, documents.
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Answer by Kate on 04 Jan 2010 06:14:50

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