Recover camera photos after SD card crash?

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  1. IGORKHOM

    IGORKHOM New Member

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    Hello, I have encountered an unpleasant event. My 64gb sd stick from my camera has failed and all my photos are gone. The card is no longer readable on the camera. When I connect the card to the PC it shows up as empty and asks for formatting.

    After a bit of googling, I realised that you need special software to recover photos. I even tried a few, but did not achieve the desired result ......


    Does anyone know how to help me?
     

  2. johnsey

    johnsey Site Moderator Staff Member Site Supporter

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    Im not sure you need special photo recovery programs, the only recovery you can get from a failed card/drive is what a special recovery tool can piece together by examining the scrambled bits of data. It will either get some of the data back or it wont. I would google best data recovery programs and research them to see what ones you should try. I am sure you have done similar, maybe someone has experience with one that does well with photos. :) I'm just thinking a high quality one will recover just as well as a photo one. I would not expect magic, failed media is hard to recover from and much data will get lost anyway.
     
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    Yes, thanks I was able to solve the problem )
    Now it has taught me to make backups forever ) Thank you )
     
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    Glad to hear yo found a good solution.
    Yeah backups are key. I usually leave stuff on the card till i know i have also copied to the external hard drive as well as whats on laptop. I also clone my external once in a while and keep that at a second location.
     
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