SD Card file recovery

[ThurlFan]

I'm trying to help a family friend recover files that went missing off the SD card in their camera.

I've run it through CardRecovery and got a few files, and on the advice of coworkers downloaded PhotoRec, which wasn't even able to read any sectors on the card. Any other suggestions before I tell them the bad news?

There are some really important pics that have gone away so expensive options may also be on the table.

Thanks

 

[gilby]

I had this happen, I ended up taking the card to a guy and he was able to recover 90% of my vacation pictures. You may want to call a camara store I used Ritz) and see if they have any suggestions. Just make sure everytime you delete photo's off the card, you reformat the card.

 

[zackiedawg]

I've had very good results from Sandisk's 'RescuePro' data recovery software - it usually comes free with Extreme or higher cards, and is also available for download - it's always been able to recover 99.9% of everything off of various cards - I've used it to recover a CF card, friends' SD cards, even a cellphone card.

 

[ThurlFan]

Finally had luck on about my 3rd try using photorec. I think the contacts were flaky, among other things because half the time I'd pop it into a slot on a PC or Mac it wouldn't see anything. The other thing was that both photorec and cardrecovery weren't able to autodetect the volume size which was a problem. Using a USB card reader on an XP machine finally got it all pulled back out. Phew!

I advised her to destroy the card and not try to use it again if she was satisfied we found all the pics...

 

[ThurlFan]

I've had very good results from Sandisk's 'RescuePro' data recovery software

I'll file your recommendation away in case I need another option to try in the future. Thanks to both for the comments!

 

[mom2rtk]

Congrats on your newly acquired super hero status!