memory card recovery

[Suehutchins]

Hi
Can anybody help. Need to retrieve photo's from memory card which i took last year. Any advice would be gratefully received. Are the programmed you can get successful. Very desperate as can't produce the picture's again.
Regards
Sue

[spicoaster]

Lots of questions - did you every take the picture(s) off the card to start with? Did you erase the pictures on the card? Have you used the card since the pictures were erased? What type of card and brand name is it? Did the card just go bad? If you removed the pictures from the card did you format it?

[Suehutchins]

a)SanDisk 1 Gb Ultra II, b)SanDisk 1 Gb Extreme III, and c)SanDisk 4Gb Extreme IV.

All cards down copied to PC and formatted afterwards in Dynax 7D only.

No signs of errors, either Read or Write on any cards.

All cards used moderately over past year.

Cards a) b) and c) used in Dynax 7D and card a) also used Canon EOS 30D once. Card c) used in Nikon D300 3 times. All cards reformatted in Dynax 7D. No cards erased or reformatted in card reader.

Post production and filtering done in Lightroom 1.

[Garlic City Grandpa]

I've used Lexar's Image Rescue to recover images from an SD card holding irreplaceable pictures I accidentally deleted. I was able to recover almost all of them. Good luck!

[ressalg]

I might be reading your second post incorrectly but it sounds like after copying them to your PC you formatted the cards. To my knowledge, this is almost the same as erasing them. So, if the card was formatted and then not used since, there should be no images on them.

[Jim Bryant]

You could try Photorescue Wizard, but don't think you'll be able to pull a year's worth of images off the cards whatever image rescue program you use. Backup on External and internal Hard drive and always burn your images to a D VD or CD.

[LoveDSLR]

If you don't use the memory card(s) after format, delete or being corrupted, then you can probably rescue most (if not all) the files/images.

[Sixpak]

Originally Posted by Suehutchins

All cards down copied to PC and formatted afterwards in Dynax 7D only.

All cards used moderately over past year.

Cards a) b) and c) used in Dynax 7D and card a) also used Canon EOS 30D once. Card c) used in Nikon D300 3 times.

Sounds to me like the cards have been used since previously formatted. In that case I think you're out of luck.

[spicoaster]

Based on the statements that you formatted the cards after downloading the pictures and that you've used the cards since then the odds of retreiving the pictures you're looking for are slim to none.

When you delete something from a disk, be it a computer harddisk, floppy or in this case a memory card the file isn't removed from the device. Instead there is an attribute set that states the file is deleted and the system can use the space to store something else. At that point you still can retrieve the data with the proper tools. Once you start storing data on the card again it will at some point use that space.

When you format a disk the data is generally lost because all the sectors have been reallocated. It's not to say it can't be restored, but it takes big money and a special service to do the job and then there isn't any guarantee that they will be able to recover it.

Sorry.....

[russelbin]

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