Help Desperate!!!

[Denise Z]

I took some family wedding shots on a compact flash 2.0 sandisk memory card. I fininshe the card put another one in and when that was finished. I accidently put the first one back in and shot over some of the existing outdoor shots. Does anyone know if those files can be retrieved? I know you can recover deleted files with recovery software but I dont know about over written ones unless they are stored in a seperate file until you format the card. Any one with any info would be greatly appreciated

[henry_b]

Sorry denise, once you overwrite the data there is nothing you can do to recover that file, been there too.
if you formated the card and then shoot, there is a chance, try some data recovery software, maybe the new shots didnt overwrite the old ones

[gravy graffix]

im confused... how did the camera "overwrite" files that IT put on there? i dont know of any camera that will delete files to keep taking pics... are you sure they are gone and not in a diff folder? i thought i lost a chunk of shots but the cam went past 100-9999 and created a new 101 folder...

[tmarcus]

I usually stop well before filling a card up so I'm not 100% sure, but don't you get a card full message and can't overwrite files? Tony

[SuzyView]

You did not reformat the first card? Did it fill the card. The camera doesn't take shots when the card is filled.