IMAGE RECOVERY

[CHARLES E. PHILLIPS]

ACCIDENTLY REFORMATED A COMPACT FLASH DISC. PLEASE ADVISE - WHAT IS THE CONSENSU FOR THE BEST IMAGE RECOVERY SOFTWARE? THANKS.

[robertwgross]

I don't think you need any consensus. Just get one that works. I have a couple (free) from a year or two ago, and they work fine.

Digital Image Recovery
PC Inspector File Recovery

There are many others.

---Bob Gross---

[Choderboy]

PC inspector has worked several times for me.
A few others found files , but only let you recover 1 or a few (due to licence requirement)

[tim]

Use this, it's free.

http://home.arcor.de/a.niggemann/dir.zip

[etaf]

i have recovered files using this program
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
when i had a full 1GB card stop working and recovered all but one of the 109 RAW files.
The free version is limited to recover upto 4 folders - which worked OK for me

[Nidz]

http://www.sunbelt-software.com/filerescueplus.cfm

It works.. You might need to purchase it but I have used it on a CF card before and it works. recovered all files plus some from a format previous to that. There are a few FAT32 file recovery tools around you can use.

[CHARLES E. PHILLIPS]

Thanks to all. I will try your suggestions.

[reneemc]

I downloaded this a few weeks ago and it worked fine. It is free.
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm

[codex0]

I did the same thing about a month ago, and was frantic. I tried about 6-7 pieces of software, about 4 of which were free. It's amazing what different software picks up - I got results ranging from 0 found to 100 found to 600 found. Only one piece of software "found" the pictures I was looking for (it was software you had to buy to actually recover the pictures). So I purchased DiskInternals Flash Recovery, which works with pretty much any kind of drive (i use a 4 gig microdrive). It works quite well, so that's my $.02 :)