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Recovering photos from SD

  • 23-02-2008 7:37pm
    #1
    Frankiestylee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭


    This might be more appropriate for a computer section but I thought someone here might have experience.

    I'm trying to recover a photo from an SD card... the problem is someone deleted the photo on the camera. It was a pretty good photo and some idiot decided to delete it while looking at the photos. Is there anyway to recover this or has it gone forever?


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  • #2
    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    Frankie

    Try this....

    Firstly do not write anything else to the SD card, take it out of the camera and make it safe.

    Next you need a way to mount it in a pc so get a card reader or borrow a friends laptop that already has one etc (you may indeed have one already).

    Mount the sd card so that it becomes a drive under windows on your pc/laptop.

    Get a copy of File Scavenger here or just google "file scavenger" . Install it and run it for the drive letter of your SD card. Use "long" search mode and prepare for it to take a few hours. This process should find the deleted (and many others) file.

    Recover the deleted file to to a folder on another hard drive such as drive c:.

    Hope this works, best of luck.


  • #3
    KStaford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 815 ✭✭✭KStaford


    bedlam wrote: »
    Recuva should sort you out pretty quickly. Same instructions as KStaford but should only take seconds to scan the SD for deleted files. It's also free to boot.

    thanks bedlam.
    File Scavenger also has a quick mode which will scan the card in a few seconds. The reason I suggested it and the "long mode" usage was for completeness. It affords every possible chance of recovering the file even if there has been heavy usage on the card since th efile was deleted.


  • #4
    Frankiestylee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Frankiestylee


    Thanks guys, I'll give it a shot.


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