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?
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.
I managed to recover most of the material. I came across this video on YouTube. (272) How to Recover Data After Formatting a Hard Disk, USB Drive or a Memory Card - YouTube Hetman Partition Recovery was able to recover 90% of the data from the flash drive. This is probably the best result so far. Overall, I'm satisfied because I managed to recover most of the data for little money.Thank you all for your help)
Yes, thanks I was able to solve the problem ) Now it has taught me to make backups forever ) Thank you )
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.
