Lost videos on SD card after accidental reformat

[teriyaki]

I accidentally formatted the wrong SD card and lost 2 hours of Disney vacation videos. I was using a Kodak Zi8 little camcorder. Should I take the card somewhere, or is there software anyone recommends? Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Thank you.
Laurie

 

[cbombard]

I accidentally formatted the wrong SD card and lost 2 hours of Disney vacation videos. I was using a Kodak Zi8 little camcorder. Should I take the card somewhere, or is there software anyone recommends? Waaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh

Thank you.
Laurie

I have had some luck with recovery using Nero RescueAgent. This is part of their multimedia suite. Not sure if they offer it in any of their lower bundles.

http://www.nero.com/enu/nero10-applications-included.html

 

[jfulcer]

There are a number of places that sell software to do this - just don't use the card for anything else. There's a good chance you can recover it. One site that talks about it:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/digitalcameras/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-your-sd-card/1102

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but, its my understanding, if you reformat, the data is gone forever! If you just deleted it then it may be recoverable.

 

[MICKEY88]

ZAR is a good free recovery program..

and it is indeed possible to recover files after formatting a disk

 

[Gianna'sPapa]

ZAR is a good free recovery program..

and it is indeed possible to recover files after formatting a disk

I stand corrected, thanks!

 

[MICKEY88]

I stand corrected, thanks!

I used to think it was impossible also until I had a hard drive go crazy and my only option was to format the drive, and reinstall windows.. I had figured my photos were gone, I ran a recovery program and recovered over 10,000 photos

 

[teriyaki]

Thanks, everyone, for the software suggestions. I'm wondering if I should take it somewhere and have a tech-savvy person do it for me?

 

[MICKEY88]

it's really not difficult, you need to have the software installed, then use a card reader to connect card to pc, run the software, and if it finds files, then tell it where to save them