SD card erased by by mistake: While trying to save my photos, through a FileHub+, I somehow erased all 3 days of my African Safari. The card has not been reformatted. Is there any way...

Lilka

While trying to save my photos, through a FileHub+, I somehow erased all 3 days of my African Safari. The card has not been reformatted. Is there any way to salvage them???

dangriss Loc: Fresno, CA

Do a quick web search for Unerase. There are a number of file recovery programs available.

Good luck.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

Recuva is one program I find works well. Your files are still on the card, just the directory allowing you access to them has been erased. Without the directory, the card is telling the camera that those files can be overwritten.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

I've never had that problem. Yet. However, reading past uhh posts on this problem, some on this forum have recommended "Recuva," a free download software. You didn't mention the Brand Name of your SD card. Some have recovery for their brand. Such as Lexar or SanDisk. Lexar SD cards are discontinued, but may still have recovery. Good luck.

Kuzano

Recuva again!

Should be free. Erase, delete and format...none of these take the files off the drive. They just change/add a unique character on the file name. The files can then be overwritten in time. They remain available to recovery software if you get to them before future files overwrite them as the space is needed.

Recuva is one of the best in photos.

Kuzano

Recuva again!

Should be free. Erase, delete and format...none of these take the files off the drive. They just change/add a unique character on the file name. The files can then be overwritten in time. They remain available to recovery software if you get to them before future files overwrite them as the space is needed.

Recuva is one of the best in photos.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

mas24 wrote:

I've never had that problem. Yet. However, reading past uhh posts on this problem, some on this forum have recommended "Recuva," a free download software. You didn't mention the Brand Name of your SD card. Some have recovery for their brand. Such as Lexar or SanDisk. Lexar SD cards are discontinued, but may still have recovery. Good luck.

I believe that Lexar's parent company was moving away from the flash drive business. The brand has been sold to the manufacturer who actually makes Lexar cards, so the continuity should be seamless. You can still purchase Lexar cards from Adorama, B&H, etc.

blackest Loc: Ireland

If not recuva testdisk or photorec are superb you can also make a disk image and recover from that. It's more of a forensics tool.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

jdubu wrote:

I believe that Lexar's parent company was moving away from the flash drive business. The brand has been sold to the manufacturer who actually makes Lexar cards, so the continuity should be seamless. You can still purchase Lexar cards from Adorama, B&H, etc.

You can still purchase a Brand New Nikon D3300, but the camera has been discontinued. No longer in production. You sell them until they are gone.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

mas24 wrote:

You can still purchase a Brand New Nikon D3300, but the camera has been discontinued. No longer in production. You sell them until they are gone.

That is true about discontinued anything, however, Lexar cards were never actually discontinued. Micron ceased their Lexar retail operations and has now sold it to the manufacturer that made the cards for Micron. The sellers mentioned still have stock and any new stock will continue from the same original source. Only Micron is out of the loop, moving in a different direction.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

jdubu wrote:

That is true about discontinued anything, however, Lexar cards were never actually discontinued. Micron ceased their Lexar retail operations and has now sold it to the manufacturer that made the cards for Micron. The sellers mentioned still have stock and any new stock will continue from the same original source. Only Micron is out of the loop, moving in a different direction.

I don't dispute what you said. I read a June 2017 article on Improve Photography Website, that Micron got out of the Lexar memory card business because it was not a great money maker for them. They are moving on to bigger and more profitable items. Perhaps the new company will continue Lexar as we know it now. I have some Lexar SD cards going back 8 years, and as low as 4gb.

jdubu Loc: San Jose, CA

I do too. My cards are CF then and now CF and SD. Hope the OP has good luck in recovering his files. Apologies for taking a tangent from the original question.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Lilka wrote:

While trying to save my photos, through a FileHub+, I somehow erased all 3 days of my African Safari. The card has not been reformatted. Is there any way to salvage them???

Let us know how this turns out.

https://www.piriform.com/recuva
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-scan-reformatted-hard-drive-to-recover-files/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/136677/article.html
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17119/windows-7-recover-lost-deleted-files
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2147668/how-to-recover-deleted-files.html
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/software/how-recover-deleted-files-free-3365461/

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

YES! My daughter did that one year - we downloaded a recovery program and were able to recover about 90% of her photos.

fourg1b2006 Loc: Long Island New York

Great advise...you never know when you might it.