card recovery help

jwear · August 8, 2005

I formatted my lexar 1g card before i downloaded the pics ,did this with my nixon in camera format does anyone know how to save the pics -the pics are not my birds or it would be no big deal but of the scouts and a flag retirment they did .any ideas:scratch oh the camera store said they could do it $150 and 2 weeks ,I think I will look futher for an answere :dunno

bfjr · August 8, 2005

jwear wrote:

I formatted my lexar 1g card before i downloaded the pics ,did this with my nixon in camera format does anyone know how to save the pics -the pics are not my birds or it would be no big deal but of the scouts and a flag retirment they did .any ideas oh the camera store said they could do it $150 and 2 weeks ,I think I will look futher for an answere

I have a couple of those recovery disks that come with scandisk card. never had to use them myself so not up on how, but your of course welcome to one if you want to try that ???

John Mueller · August 8, 2005

This has saved my butt a couple of times.Great stuff.

Allen · August 8, 2005

I've used the one that came with the Sandisk Extreme, RescuePro, and have recovered all the
deleted pics. But I had moved the pics from the card to the pc and not reformated. I rarely
ever reformat a disk, either copy and delete or mostly just move. Even with a format I think
they are all still there.

I paid the extra amount for the extreme, about $15 over the ultra just to get the rescue software,
great insurance. Stand alone it was about $40 at the time. Still well worth having recovery software
available.
Good luck,
AL
http://www.sandisk.com/retail/rescuepro.asp

wxwax · August 8, 2005

jwear wrote:

I formatted my lexar 1g card before i downloaded the pics ,did this with my nixon in camera format does anyone know how to save the pics -the pics are not my birds or it would be no big deal but of the scouts and a flag retirment they did .any ideas oh the camera store said they could do it $150 and 2 weeks ,I think I will look futher for an answere

I've used Lexar's Image Rescue 2 and it worked. Files on a Lexar card that PS or DPP couldn't see, were eventually opened and saved by it. The program came with my Lexar 2GB 80x card. Do you have it?

ScottMcLeod · August 8, 2005

I'll second every single one of those notes about the Sandisk Recovery software. We use the software at work to recover people's images.

You'll need:
- The mini-CD that the software comes on
- Card reader

It's recovered files that were deleted up to 2 formats back.

Great excuse to get a new extreme card

But seriously, find a small camera shop and haggle until the price comes down low enough, then run home and save those photos!

ScottMcLeod · August 8, 2005

Oh, and the camera store is screwing their customers.
My store does it for 50$/2 weeks, or in-store (using the recovery software) for 10$ + 5.99$ for the disc.

EDIT: Otherwise, I can try to snag a copy of the software today for you out of an open-box card, and bring it home and upload the files to my site for you... (since no one "owns" the liscence yet

)

wxwax · August 8, 2005

I need to amend my remarks. I've never tried to recover images from a card that's been reformatted.

jwear · August 8, 2005

Thanks
Well i called lexar and they emailed me the recover program and even if you format [and do not use it] you can get it back

it does not come back as raw [that's nikon] but as a tiff thanks all for the advice

but i did get back the scout pics so my life is saved

thanks again oh yea not 2 weeks but 15 min and not $150 but $0

wxwax · August 8, 2005

jwear wrote:

Well i called lexar and they emailed me the recover program and even if you format [and do not use it] you can get it back it does not come back as raw [that's nikon] but as a tiff thanks all for the advice but i did get back the scout pics so my life is saved thanks again oh yea not 2 weeks but 15 min and not $150 but $0

Congratulations!

patch29 · August 8, 2005

I have used Photorescue with excellent results. My card had been borrowed by a friend and had corrupt issues during the Lexar 80x/Canon 1D mkII problems. It found a lot of old files on there, so it worked well and was easy to use.

Angelo · August 8, 2005

jwear wrote:

Well i called lexar and they emailed me the recover program and even if you format [and do not use it] you can get it back it does not come back as raw [that's nikon] but as a tiff thanks all for the advice but i did get back the scout pics so my life is saved thanks again oh yea not 2 weeks but 15 min and not $150 but $0

jwear · August 9, 2005

thanks agian
for alll the responce -I was sick at the mistake i had made but all is good I am going to try some of the other programs on the card and see what happens and report back also will post a sunset shot that was giving back to me

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