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Sadly and stupidly on the last night of mine and my wifes honeymoon I accidently formatted the SD card and lost all of our photo's :'(

Fortunately (we thought but maybe not) we had time to take a few photo's on the last night (using the same SD card).

I have tried several software recovery products but none of them have worked.

I have since read that because I have taken photo's over the top of the formatted SD card it has now become very difficult to recover the data.

Does anyone know of any software that they can recommend of have made the same mistake and can advise what you did to recover the photo's?

Any help will be much appreciated.
 
The bad news is that you'll probably have lost some of the shots by overwriting them. The good news is that you'll probably be able to retrieve some of them. I use SanDisk's RescuePro and it can recover files from formatted cards. It can't rescue the overwritten ones though I'm afraid.

IIRC there are some other pieces of software that can be downloaded for free, I'm sure someone will point you towards them! If not, I might (or someone else may) have a spare CD which they can send you.

Good luck.
 
LathamC said:
Sadly and stupidly on the last night of mine and my wifes honeymoon I accidently formatted the SD card and lost all of our photo's :'(

Fortunately (we thought but maybe not) we had time to take a few photo's on the last night (using the same SD card).

I have tried several software recovery products but none of them have worked.

I have since read that because I have taken photo's over the top of the formatted SD card it has now become very difficult to recover the data.

Does anyone know of any software that they can recommend of have made the same mistake and can advise what you did to recover the photo's?

Any help will be much appreciated.
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Try

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

You may be lucky. You'll never recover the files that were stored in the same memory locations as the ones you've taken over the top, but the rest should still be there.
 
Have you tried recuva Download the free version and when you run it select Enable Deep Scan. You may not get all the files back though.
Good luck
 
As you've already discovered as you've used the card you may not be able to recover the data, you can try Recuva that is supposed to be good, but as you've written over at least some of the data even that may not do the trick :(
 
Nod said:
The bad news is that you'll probably have lost some of the shots by overwriting them. The good news is that you'll probably be able to retrieve some of them. I use SanDisk's RescuePro and it can recover files from formatted cards. It can't rescue the overwritten ones though I'm afraid.
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Agreed. I have too.

If you have overwritten them it then becomes a forensic exercise which is affordable but only if you are a police or security service.
 
Suvv said:
Have you tried recuva Download the free version and when you run it select Enable Deep Scan. You may not get all the files back though.
Good luck
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This ^ used recuva on several occasions with good results.
 
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