 Memory card was erased...., any programs? |
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 Jun 18 2007, 02:25 PM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28  |
So long story short...this idiot was messing with my digital camera and formatted my SD memory card. I'm out of the country and had a lot of good pics...does anyone know of a program that could retrieve lost data from a SD card that's probably been formatted? I figure it's a long shot but I might as well ask.
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Jun 18 2007, 02:49 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
ok update. i found some programs that might work, but i have to be able to see my digital camera as a mass storage device (like a removable disk) and not as a digital camera. anyohe know how to do this? im in mexico so none of these computers have usb card readers..gay.
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Jun 18 2007, 02:50 PM
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Fool Group: Members Posts: 2,127 Joined: 23-February 06 From: LBB Member No.: 56 |
Doesn't the camera double as a USB card reader when you plug it in with the USB cable?
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Jun 18 2007, 02:52 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
QUOTE (James @ Jun 18 2007, 03:50 PM)  Doesn't the camera double as a USB card reader when you plug it in with the USB cable? i thought so too, but apparently not. and i'm using windows xp. its even more frustrating dealing with it in spanish, because i dont know a lot of the technical computer vocabulary associated with device properties, etc. -------------------- |
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Jun 18 2007, 02:59 PM
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At Fry's you can get a memory card reader that will mount your card as a disk device... don't know if you can find something like it in an electronics store in Mexico though.
Also, I posted a link to some software to retrieve deleted files in Epic's thread asking for similar help. I use it on my hard drives but I'm pretty sure it should also work on a memory card. |
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Jun 18 2007, 03:03 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
yeah, i think i can recover it as long as it can be recognized as a removable disk.
btw... do you guys think i should keep taking more pictures or just not mess with it until i can recover the lost ones? -------------------- |
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Jun 18 2007, 04:04 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 5,275 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 2 |
If you want to recover the pictures then don't use that memory card. All deleting the pics did was erase the file pointers to the pics. The pics are still there but the space they're in is seen as free space. If you take more pics they'll overwrite the ones you want to retrieve
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Jun 19 2007, 04:38 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
good news! i recovered my pics. i went all over town and by luck found ONE computer that actually has a usb card reader. i downloaded a progrma and voila! it recovered my pics. it didnt recover 100% of them, but at least in the 90%. anyway im happy.
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Jun 19 2007, 04:55 PM
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Fool Group: Members Posts: 2,127 Joined: 23-February 06 From: LBB Member No.: 56 |
Awesome. Now don't let anyone touch your camera again.
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Jun 19 2007, 05:13 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
QUOTE (James @ Jun 19 2007, 05:55 PM) Awesome. Now don't let anyone touch your camera again. oh believe me, i havent been this pissed in awhile, so theres no way. im in mexico traveling with a friend, and she was taking pictures at a club with these guys from argentina (training for the olympics or something). these guys were so stupid they asked "is that a camera?" they didnt know how to use it or anything. at this point i didnt know what was going on. i was letting her use it every once in awhile while i was talkin to other people. so all of a sudden shes like "i put it on the table for 5 seconds and it was gone, i swear." we found out the argentinians took it bc another friend called them. they knew it was expensive so yeah.... we got it back but when i turned it on there were no images. they were probably screwing around and just pressing buttons and formatted it. what fucksticks. never again. -------------------- |
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Jun 19 2007, 05:18 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 5,275 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 2 |
Which city in Mexico are you in?
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Jun 19 2007, 05:41 PM
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Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
im travelin around, but right now im in san luis potosi, a farely large city.
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