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| Thread ID: 74899 | 2006-12-09 10:28:00 | Recovering photos deleted off memory card. | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 505438 | 2006-12-09 10:28:00 | Hi Team I need to recover some photos deleted off a camera memory card and recall that there was a post about this some time back. If my memory serves me right, there was some recommended freeware that would do the trick. Nothing has been written to the card since erasure so they are there for the asking, all I need is the software. I've googled but find there are many options and I'd prefer to follow up a recommendation. Can anybody point me in the right direction please? Connection is via USB, W2K OS. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 505439 | 2006-12-09 10:33:00 | My local photo-lab claimed to have a nearly 100 percent recovery rate (and no I do not believe them, just passing on their claim)and they only charged a token fee. | Metla (12) | ||
| 505440 | 2006-12-09 11:11:00 | The following should be a link to "Digital Image Recovery 1.47" by Alexander Grau home.arcor.de This was the last free version as it later went commercial. This has worked for my Canon on both delete and format but some cameras (Olympus??) screw things up by writing 0s to the card if you format. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 505441 | 2006-12-09 11:23:00 | I don't know of any free ones, but we have "Recover My Files" at work that seems to be pretty good. There is also a specialist camera one that I can't remember the name of. It could be the one Paul mentioned. | Greven (91) | ||
| 505442 | 2006-12-09 13:31:00 | this works well www.z-a-recovery.com |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 505443 | 2006-12-09 19:31:00 | The most important thing: DON'T USE THE CARD! I'm surprised that no one pointed this out. Anyway, if you use the card, your deleted photos will be overwritten, and impossible to get back. Deleting doesn't remove anything, it just marks the space as being available for use. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 505444 | 2006-12-09 19:54:00 | i'd say the original poster seems aware of this as they did post: Nothing has been written to the card since erasure so they are there for the asking, all I need is the software. |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 505445 | 2006-12-10 04:33:00 | Download PC Inspector from www.convar.de :) |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 505446 | 2006-12-10 04:39:00 | This (www.oo-software.com) May work, I've got it on the hdd here, but havent installed it again yet. But it isnt free. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 505447 | 2006-12-10 06:04:00 | Well, I downloaded and ran Zar 8.0 as recommended by drcspy and it recovered about 110 files, which would be about right, but they came in three distinct groups. Firstly, around 75% were average size (500kb to 1.5 MB), but 20% were 16MB and the rest were 32MB. I don't use such large sizes. Secondly, a small number of images were incomplete with varying proportions from 2%, 20%, 30%, 50%, 75% and 95% of the image greyed out. These are photos that I know were complete because some had previously been downloaded. A few of those might well have been overwritten, which is of no consequence, but unfortunately, a couple of the most recent images were also affected, and they definitely have not been overwritten. When I tried to rerun Zar it threw up an error message and asked for a bug report, so I'll try another program and see what that does. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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