Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

[Boomyal]

I don't hold out much practical hope and I know this kind of thing has come up before. I somehow mangaged to obliviate all of my Ketchican fishing trip pictures. As I really don't know what I specifically did, I don't know whether I erased them or reformated the chip.

a) Is their anyway to tell, b) and if only deleted does it cost an arm and a leg to retrieve them?

 

[tommays]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

they are still there

DO NOT USE THE CARD

There are many file recovery programs just not sure which ones are still free


http://www.active-undelete.com/ is one of many that do work BUT the demo is limited


If your search for the http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd 9.2 there are a bunch on there that work and are free

http://www.gospeedtest.com/hirens.html here is a place with the 8.9 version

Tommays

 

[valkyr]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

If you don't mind paying some $ for a program, here is one specifically for Cards:

http://www.cardrecovery.com/?rid=google&kid=cr2301
39.95 apparently

Here's a freeware one - search for "SoftPerfect File Recovery" halfway down the page
http://www.snapfiles.com/Freeware/system/fwdatarecovery.html

Also MjM Free Photo Recovery Software on that same page

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

Thanks a bunch guys, I will look into them. I did take maybe 1/2 dozen pictures after the event but the loss of my first few would not be a big deal. After I was certain there were no pictures I quit using the card.

Is this still an issue of 'reformat' loss vs 'erase' loss, though?

 

[tommays]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

well

i just tried http://www.runtime.org/ it on a memory card i had my camera have at and it found 87 pictures on a seemly blank card

It wanted me to buy it to really save them but when i used the open with (my photo editor)it allowed me to save it as (new name) without buying it


Tommays

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

well

i just tried http://www.runtime.org/ it on a memory card i had my camera have at and it found 87 pictures on a seemly blank card

It wanted me to buy it to really save them but when i used the open with (my photo editor)it allowed me to save it as (new name) without buying it


Tommays

How do you mean that you opened it with your photo editor? and, again, what if I reformated vs just erased?

 

[dchris]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

Memory 101 ?
When files are deleted, only the first memory location is erased. Without this starting point, operating systems see this memory space as free even if there is still some type of data present. This is how recovery programs work. They look for fragments of files and guess about the missing information. As you continue to re-use free memory areas, the old files are completely over-written and no longer recoverable.

Hard drives and magnetic memory (soft disks) can be written to without being previously erased. Formatting these types of drives does not permanently delete old erased data. There are slack space tools is you need to remove some old porn or something really bad.

Flash memory must be formatted before new data can be written. This is the type of memory most cameras use. Formatting a flash stick will permanently destroy any data. Erasing a file in flash memory does not destroy it until that section of memory is re-used by the operating system.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

Well I guess I am just SOL. Just ran this program, "SoftPerfect File Recovery" and it came up with one file with nothing in it. I guess that I must have re-formatted the memory card.:redface:

 

[tommays]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

Boo

I would try the http://www.runtime.org/ and download the FAT32 recovery program my olympus camera allways reformats the card

it was much slower(a much more carefull look) than the other programs and as a free demo you have nothing to lose

Even on a hard drive after a format ,programs can pickup a lot of stuff


Tommays

 

[PierBridge]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

Good Luck Boom.

 

[Boomyal]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

Boo

I would try the http://www.runtime.org/ and download the FAT32 recovery program my olympus camera allways reformats the card

it was much slower(a much more carefull look) than the other programs and as a free demo you have nothing to lose

Even on a hard drive after a format ,programs can pickup a lot of stuff


Tommays

Ok, I'll try it. You mentioned earlier that you opened the program with your picture editor. Can you explain that?

 

[tommays]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

This program has a built in picture preview ,you press the F3 key and it will show a thumbnail of anything it finds


If you look in the menu it has and open with pick (i use photoshop ) and it will open the pictue in photoshop( or any photo editor on your computer)

At this point you can use that save as menu in the photo editor and give it a new name

OR if it does find them you can pay the nice smart guys that made it the 39.95 and have a full working program


The nice part is that at the least you can try it for free and know it will work without spending any money


Tommays

 

[dchris]

Re: Erased Pictures! Heeeeeeeeeelp!

Another tool is winhex. http://www.x-ways.net/