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DD716TED
Explorer
Jun 21, 2016

Memory Card Recovery??

On our recent trip, when using a new digital camera, mt wife pushed the wrong menu selection on her new digital camera and erased all of the photos she had taken, I immediately turned the camera off and removed the SDHC card and replaced it with another. Is there a way to recover these erased photos? Is there a free or low cost software program that will accomplish this task or have the photos been lost forever?
  • wa8yxm's avatar
    wa8yxm
    Explorer III
    Normally only the "index" is erased, the files are not, so if you took the card out straight away you will be able to recover... Perhaps more than you want.

    Fry's. Best Buy,, Staples (may) and many other stores. both computer and photography may be able to do it for a fee.

    I have never used the recovery programs on a SD card but have used a few on HD's (Same situation) and the results were good. But it's been like 20 years since I did that.
  • I've used Photo Rescue to recover deleted images as well as "rescue" corrupted data cards. They have a trial version that can be used to see if it will work with your problem.
  • I am retired IT (system design and implementation) and my "go to" bag of tricks for virtually everything starts with Piriform products. They have free versions of most of their software, but, after using them I've since gone to their paid versions. You do get what you pay for, however, I'd give their free version a shot: Recuva Software

    The free version download link is at the bottom of the page. Recuva will work with virtually any file type on any memory device.
  • Call a small computer repair shop. They may have the software to do it. Pctools was a program I used for years to recover those files. Do not mess about and try to do it yourself. Let someone that knows how to do it. It probably won't cost much.
  • One possibility!

    A Google search will show quite a few programs available. Some say they are free but reviews indicate otherwise. I've never used any of these programs, but it's worth a try to download one or more of them and see if they work. Good luck!

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