I had around 2000 photos on my SD card, some of which I hadn’t backed up. Yesterday, when I inserted the card into my laptop, it said that it could not read the card and asked me if I wanted to format the files. I stupidly clicked ‘yes’. All my photos have now gone. I’ve tried Rescue Pro, Wondershare, Recuva - everything! They only manage to recover 2 photos. Can someone please tell me what I can do!?! Is it a lost cause?
Hi Faria, I am really concerned listening about it that you have deleted your photos accidentally.
Why do you not give a try to Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software. Three months back, I had deleted my fianceee pictures from Sd card. I used this software and recovered all the lost photos back! Got from here: http://www.stellarphotorecoverysoftware.com/
In your case this photo recovery software may be worth a try, a program specially designed to recover deleted photos. Seems the personal version is free. You can recover your files as long as they are not overwriten.
Remember - DO NOT write any new data back to the SD card in case you may quite possibly ruin the chances of photo recovery. Best regards.
I would suggest you to give a try to “RecoveryFix for Windows” This is an amazing tool which saved my life once when i accidentally formatted the memory card of my friend. Then i downloaded the trial version to recover photos . The trial version shows preview of all photos which were around 150 in number, Once satisfied with the preview i purchased the software and recovered all photos. Here is the link to their site http://www.photo-recovery.net/
Once you formatted 2gb SD Transcend card, you can go for an updated backup but in case of unavailability of backup, the only option you can go for is free photo recovery software that can recover as well as restore all your photos lost after formatting easily in minimal amount of time period.
The level of recovery may not be 100% but for sure you will recover some of your pictures, make backup a habbit, for todays gadget are not 100% reliable, they may crash anytime.
The file recovery idea posted before works if you just deleted data, but if you actually formatted the disk, your data is lost on that drive, and is unrecoverable. Hopefully the data is still on your hard drive on the PC for you to locate and put back on the memory stick.
Maybe you can try this data recovery software, of cause it can recover photos. firstly, you can download it free version, but it only can recover data at most 1 GB to sure if it can help you. It can do format recovery, recover deleted files emptied from Recycle Bin or lost data due to partition loss or damage. However, if you have overwritten you data, it may not help you.
here, i just to say the safest way to protect your photos is to back them up. there are so manyfree backup software on the market. but the data recovery software are not free commonly.
You can use the " Card Recovery " which is a product of WinRecovery Software.This software will help you to recover all your lost images and videos.It has a free trial to download.
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