Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: Image Recovery
My wife's Cannon S3 IS crapped out while she was on vacation in Eastern Europe. Some "know-it-all" reformatted her SD card while it still had pictures on it. (No it wasn't me. I wasn't there). I've tried the utilities that used to come installed on Sandisk's and Lexar's CF cards, and Photo-Saver and Card Recovery. Nothing has been able to recover any images from the SD card. Does anyone know of any utilities that might be able to recover images from this reformatted card? I'm thinking that for all practical purposes, there's no data on the card to recover. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Image Recovery
"William Oertell" <oertell_NOT@pacbell.net> wrote in message news:136hmvg11gb8sed@news.supernews.com...
My wife's Cannon S3 IS crapped out while she was on vacation in Eastern Europe. Some "know-it-all" reformatted her SD card while it still had pictures on it. (No it wasn't me. I wasn't there). I've tried the utilities that used to come installed on Sandisk's and Lexar's CF cards, and Photo-Saver and Card Recovery. Nothing has been able to recover any images from the SD card. Does anyone know of any utilities that might be able to recover images from this reformatted card? I'm thinking that for all practical purposes, there's no data on the card to recover. Any suggestions would be welcome. Thanks
It may be a lost cause. Some cameras format by just erasing the file alocation table and thus the image data could still be there but very very very hard to reconstruct. But other cameras do a full format that would totally erase the image data from the card and in that case the data is completely gone and impossible to recover. You may want to try every recovery program you can get but be braced for the high probability that there is no data to recover.
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