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Noelle8818
27th of January 2008 (Sun), 19:14
I have a CF card that was accidentally formatted the day after my son's birth. All of the pictures of his first day were erased. It's been over two years, and I still have the card, but wonder if there is any method available where I can recover the images? Thanks for the help!
Hermeto
27th of January 2008 (Sun), 19:30
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html
Jon
27th of January 2008 (Sun), 19:34
There are a number of file and photo recovery programs around. I have (shareware) PhotoRescue Advanced, which is the Rolls Royce of photo recovery programs. SanDisk bundles one with their Extreme III cards. Also look at this thread: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=370813&highlight=photo+recovery
Noelle8818
27th of January 2008 (Sun), 20:43
Thank you!
TheSonofDarwin
27th of January 2008 (Sun), 21:56
I have a copy of File Scavenger you can give a go too (PM if you want). I have recovered files from 2003 from my laptop, past 10+ formats :eek: And my dad just used it to recover his vacation photos from a corrupted CF. So long as you haven't filled up your card completely since then, you should be able to get at least some of them!
DDCSD
27th of January 2008 (Sun), 23:31
I have a CF card that was accidentally formatted the day after my son's birth. All of the pictures of his first day were erased. It's been over two years, and I still have the card, but wonder if there is any method available where I can recover the images? Thanks for the help!

Wow, you still have the card and haven't used it since? Good thinking to hold on to it, I probably would have thrown the thing until it broke and smashed my forehead into the pieces repeatedly. :lol:

I have used the shareware version of Photo Rescue to get files off of my sister's corrupt memory card before with fantastic results. Highly recomended.

Please let us know if you get them recovered!
Tdragone
28th of January 2008 (Mon), 19:09
Stumbled on this today.
memory card data recovery is FREE
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/demo-ir.htm
Philscbx
28th of October 2008 (Tue), 18:41
That's good to know.
I just assumed once the card is formatted that it's erased.
I wonder what brand card it was?
Knock on something, I'm locked in on Sandisk.
DDCSD
28th of October 2008 (Tue), 19:38
OP, did you get them recovered?