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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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| 505448 | 2006-12-10 06:39:00 | Download PC Inspector from www.convar.de :)The URL brings up the Home page, and you can then select the english language pages but the link to PC Inspector doesn't work for me on english or german pages. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 505449 | 2006-12-10 07:09:00 | Tried another download site such as.. www.majorgeeks.com |
pheonix (36) | ||
| 505450 | 2006-12-10 08:28:00 | I have previously tried the program in Zippity's link (PC Inspector) by deliberately deleting files (after downloading) and then trying recovery. It was 100% succesful. | godfather (25) | ||
| 505451 | 2006-12-10 19:08:00 | 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. Billy, the program you were wanting is this (www.artplus.hr) - Digital Photo Recovery: photorec.exe. Try that if you have no luck with the other ones recommended. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 505452 | 2006-12-10 19:30:00 | Billy may have a program on his hard drive :-) pressf1.pcworld.co.nz |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 505453 | 2006-12-10 19:44:00 | But maybe it didn't work. :eek: | FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 505454 | 2006-12-10 19:57:00 | It worked in that thread and has worked for me several times. One thing you can try is the demo mode of a program called Photorescue www.datarescue.com that will show what is recoverable by possibly the best commercial program, then if you can do the same with freeware you're doing OK. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 505455 | 2006-12-12 08:50:00 | Well, I have tried Zar 8.0, Photo Undelete, Smart Flash Recovery, PC Inspector and finally, Photo Rescue. All did a reasonable job but not one could recover all of the images, even though none had been overwritten. I suspect that the memory card was fragmented and the software was not able to link up all the pieces. I suspect that defragging a drive full of "deleted" files would make matters worse so unless I invest in Photo Rescue I think I will have to flag it away at this point. PR was the only program that recovered every file and every fragment/cluster, all 5900 or so of them on a 256MB SD card, which took about 16 hours to complete, but to then reassemble the image files would have cost $US99 and the lost images are simply not important enough to invest that much money . I recovered what I wanted, but there were a number of corrupted files that would not display (though some would display in Windows Explorer preview) and this puzzled me because there should not have been any overwrites. I was ignoring corruption of older previously downloaded files that I expected to have been overwritten. I have hedged my bets by buying a new 1GB SD card from DSE and putting the existing 256MB card on hold "as is" in case I find I do need to recover all of the images (it was too small to hold a reasonable length video anyway). If Mrs T decides she wants all the images back, then believe me, it will be worth the $US price to keep my head attached to my shoulders and all other appendages present and correct. Thanks to all for suggestions and advice. Cheers Billy 8-{) For anybody interested, the following links illustrate the four main fault conditions. 1 & 2 were only displayed in Windows Explorer preview pane, 3 is typical of several partial displays, and 4 is a common error message when trying to open a file that won't preview at all. www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz |
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