I recently went on vacation. I was stupid enough to play around with my camera and format the card I had. I intended to press Cancel but somehow I ended up pressing OK and it started to wipe everything out. Needless to say, I was very pissed off. This card have over a week's worth of pictures and at 1GB was a lot of random pictures that should have been preserved.
One of my travel companions at the time worked in an electronics store and mentioned that he had software that could recover the pictures. I was not too impressed because I didn't think the software would do _that_ much. At any rate, I locked the card and stopped using it. I kept it with me (and as a result had to dump pictures onto CDs more often) and brought it back. I finally got a hold of the software he mentioned and I tried it out. No luck. My camera, when connected, does not display as a removable drive on my machine. For some god-forsaken reason, my 7-in-1 card reader does not work. So, I give up on recovering the pictures.
One of my co-workers apparently was in a similar predicament. He had one advantage: his (really, really nice) laptop has an SD card reader built right in. So, I plugged in my card and we ran the software recovery process and viola, I have a bunch of my pictures/videos recovered. I have to say that it is great to recover so many of the pictures. I did end up losing a fair number of pictures still but I did end up getting a bunch of pictures I did not think I would ever see again.
My co-worker wasn't that lucky. He did manage to recover most of his friend's pictures. Apparently, the thumbnails were good but the actual images were rather messed up, with the halves being joined incorrectly. He also managed to recover a lot of pictures from the previous owner of the card. I guess she forgot to delete all the pictures fully. As for the software, I am excited that such a thing exists.
One of my travel companions at the time worked in an electronics store and mentioned that he had software that could recover the pictures. I was not too impressed because I didn't think the software would do _that_ much. At any rate, I locked the card and stopped using it. I kept it with me (and as a result had to dump pictures onto CDs more often) and brought it back. I finally got a hold of the software he mentioned and I tried it out. No luck. My camera, when connected, does not display as a removable drive on my machine. For some god-forsaken reason, my 7-in-1 card reader does not work. So, I give up on recovering the pictures.
One of my co-workers apparently was in a similar predicament. He had one advantage: his (really, really nice) laptop has an SD card reader built right in. So, I plugged in my card and we ran the software recovery process and viola, I have a bunch of my pictures/videos recovered. I have to say that it is great to recover so many of the pictures. I did end up losing a fair number of pictures still but I did end up getting a bunch of pictures I did not think I would ever see again.
My co-worker wasn't that lucky. He did manage to recover most of his friend's pictures. Apparently, the thumbnails were good but the actual images were rather messed up, with the halves being joined incorrectly. He also managed to recover a lot of pictures from the previous owner of the card. I guess she forgot to delete all the pictures fully. As for the software, I am excited that such a thing exists.
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