Looking for a Great Data Recovery Program (free)

psychoteddybear · #1 (**permalink**) 11-17-2007, 09:20 PM

salam,

i have scoured the Net, and asked a million people for recommendations on a good data recovery program...basically I accidentially reformatted the stupid disk in my digital camera..it's 2 gb sd card (?) and I need to recover the pics on it back....can anyone recommend a great program which will not charge me and which will be effective in recovering EVERYTHING that was on this disk?? i am really desperate...i went out today and bought a card reader and everything...please help..thanks...wa salam

psychoteddybear · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 07:15 PM

ANSWER ME TECH GEEKS

WarriorAndWiseman · #3 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 07:17 PM

Sometimes you just have to let go...

psychoteddybear · #4 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 07:18 PM

I recovered many so far but everytime I click on them it says "failed to load photo" I will NOT give up

Aryan_ · #5 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 07:24 PM

Now would be a good time to point out that you should have made a back up

WarriorAndWiseman · #6 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Aryan_

Now would be a good time to point out that you should have made a back up

You take the prize for the most annoying post Captain Obvious!! *clap clap clap.

Aryan_ · #7 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by WarriorAndWiseman

You take the prize for the most annoying post Captain Obvious!! *clap clap clap.

I was inspired by karmic fate. My IT teacher said the same thing to me when I erased over my GCSE coursework.

IbnMardhiyah · #8 (**permalink**) 11-22-2007, 10:28 PM

There are no free data recovery programs. If it was solid state flash memory - which it was most likely, then its gone.

If it was on a spindle, then there are recovery apps available but you gotta pony up the dead presidents.

Sorry sis. Just roll with it.

As in, old skool camera roll.

elysium · #9 (**permalink**) 11-23-2007, 12:20 AM

On the contrary.. there are quite a few good free data recovery programs.

One of which, photorec based off of testdisk works wonders.

TestDisk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PhotoRec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PhotoRec - CGSecurity

Been using it for a couple of years now on both flash as well as regular hd formats.

Key trick is to make an immediate image of the drive to be recovered into a drive that can be written.. ie, only read from the drive you intend to recover, make an image of it ( which testdisk should help you do, if not then read up on data/disk imaging softwares or tools such as DD ) and then don't touch it.

Having had bad luck with data in the past, now it can be proudly stated that over 200gb in 4 disk-span so far, to date has been recovered. Just takes patience. Even had to do tricks with dying harddrives and frozen icepacks, and it worked wonderfully.

IbnMardhiyah · #10 (**permalink**) 11-23-2007, 12:54 AM

I stand corrected.

psychoteddybear · #11 (**permalink**) 11-23-2007, 05:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Aryan_

Now would be a good time to point out that you should have made a back up

I normally had been emailing myself the pics but I had just gotten back from vacay, sitting in the airport in Amsterdam, and accidentially hit the format button. Sue me

psychoteddybear · #12 (**permalink**) 11-23-2007, 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by elysium

On the contrary.. there are quite a few good free data recovery programs.

One of which, photorec based off of testdisk works wonders.

TestDisk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PhotoRec - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

PhotoRec - CGSecurity

Been using it for a couple of years now on both flash as well as regular hd formats.

Key trick is to make an immediate image of the drive to be recovered into a drive that can be written.. ie, only read from the drive you intend to recover, make an image of it ( which testdisk should help you do, if not then read up on data/disk imaging softwares or tools such as DD ) and then don't touch it.

Having had bad luck with data in the past, now it can be proudly stated that over 200gb in 4 disk-span so far, to date has been recovered. Just takes patience. Even had to do tricks with dying harddrives and frozen icepacks, and it worked wonderfully.

thanks mate...i had come across the test disk one but i have no idea how to make it work...it doesn't really explain much...but maybe i'll get lucky i dunno...i'll try the other links and see what happens...thanks again!!!

wa salam