cal_murray Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I am sure this question has been asked before but I couldn't find the answer in the archives and the Nikon manual didn't help me either but I know the Nikon Forum can. I have a 512mb San Disk compact flash card that I used to take 35 pictures using my Nikon D200. I asked my wife to download the images in our computer. Thinking that she had,I reformatted the disk. Can I recover those images that she didn't download? I have not shot any new images on the card. Thanks for your help. Cal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaelschrag Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1186)-RescuePro.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_sattar Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 If the formatter did a true low level format then you're probably out of luck. However, if the formatter just flagged the written to blocks as 'available', then the data may still be there, just inaccesible to normal Win/Mac/Unix operating systems. I'd suggest approaching a data recovery specialist firm - look in the back of any computing magazine to find several - give 'em a call see what they think. It probably won't be cheap though... Even to take a look and determine that they can't recover the data will probably cost you something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jalywol Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Been there, done that, was able to save things with a downloaded program called photorescue. http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ Good luck! -Janet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andreas_weber Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 ... or http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec > I'd suggest approaching a data recovery specialist firm - look in the back of any computing magazine to find several - give 'em a call see what they think. It probably won't be cheap though... Even to take a look and determine that they can't recover the data will probably cost you something. Nonsense. > If the formatter did a true low level format then you're probably out of luck. Read up on "wear leveling". Andreas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandonhamilton Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 Formatting doesn't actually remove the data, so you should be fine. You will need some data recovery software to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cal_murray Posted October 9, 2006 Author Share Posted October 9, 2006 Thanks to all of you for your imput. I am so grateful. Where would we all be without the Nikon Forum! Cal Murray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louise1 Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I used the photorescue software, and it did indeed work. I hadn't formatted the card, thank goodness. It took a long, long time, though, but it was worth it. It was the only thing I could find online that worked, other than pay a lot of money by taking it to a data recovery store. good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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