Help! I accidentally deleted my digital camera images from my CF card.

richklein · Jan 12, 2005

Hi,

I was looking at some pictures on my digital camera on my PC. WinXP adds the camera as another drive on my pc (when the camera is connected via usb & turned on). I accidentally deleted the photos off the camera (IE CF card). What program can I use to recover the photos/files on the card?

Thanks,
Rich

andyl33t · Jan 12, 2005

are they in the recycle bin?

KILLorBE · Jan 12, 2005

You could try Smart Recovery 4.5 (freeware).

Good Luck

Bender · Jan 12, 2005

There are others but I use a program called EasyRecovery Professional by http://www.ontrack.com. I belive they still have a trial version you can download. I have had no problem recovering lost data from flash media and hard disks.

KILLorBE · Jan 12, 2005

Bender said:
I belive they still have a trial version you download.

Yep....but:

Identifies and allows you to view the deleted files and corrupted documents that are recoverable with a full edition of EasyRecovery Professional, while offering the Word and Zip repair component that allows you to recover and repair deleted or corrupt Word and Zip files!

Just downloaded and installed Smart Recovery 4.5.......

It seems to work fine, it even recovered some old pictures.

ThePerfectCore · Jan 12, 2005

If it's a solid state media, you won't be getting those pictures back.

Bender · Jan 12, 2005

ThePerfectCore said:
If it's a solid state media, you won't be getting those pictures back.

Actually yes he will unless the data was written over. When you delete files off of any drive, including solid state drives, all that happens is the referances to the files are removed. The data is still there.

If you write over the data on flash media I belive it is completely unrecoverable. If you write over data on a hard drive the data can be recovered but I dont belive any commercial software can recover it. It is standard practice for sensitive data to be over written 7 times because any fewer and there are recover possibilities.

ThePerfectCore · Jan 13, 2005

Bender said:
Actually yes he will unless the data was written over. When you delete files off of any drive, including solid state drives, all that happens is the referances to the files are removed. The data is still there.

If you write over the data on flash media I belive it is completely unrecoverable. If you write over data on a hard drive the data can be recovered but I dont belive any commercial software can recover it. It is standard practice for sensitive data to be over written 7 times because any fewer and there are recover possibilities.

I skimmed the thread and misunderstood. I thought he had overwritten the files with something else. 'Course in that case he wouldn't be getting them back, be it flash or anything else...

capmuffin · Jan 13, 2005

Bender said:
Actually yes he will unless the data was written over. When you delete files off of any drive, including solid state drives, all that happens is the referances to the files are removed. The data is still there.

If you write over the data on flash media I belive it is completely unrecoverable. If you write over data on a hard drive the data can be recovered but I dont belive any commercial software can recover it. It is standard practice for sensitive data to be over written 7 times because any fewer and there are recover possibilities.

I think that after a HD has beem read from (non software) it can not be used again. I saw on CSI they took the plates out and a laser scanned it at 500 microns a second!

richklein · Jan 13, 2005

I dont have a CF card reader. I just click on my camera icon in "my computer". Do I need a card reader?

KILLorBE · Jan 13, 2005

richklein said:
I dont have a CF card reader. I just click on my camera icon in "my computer". Do I need a card reader?

As long as you have a card reader or camera that creates a 'logical drive', it should work.

Krieger · Jan 13, 2005

richklein you might want to get one anyway, I've found that the pictures download about 30x faster with the reader than through the camera I have.

gvblake22 · Jan 13, 2005

Krieger said:
richklein you might want to get one anyway, I've found that the pictures download about 30x faster with the reader than through the camera I have.

I second that. Card readers are like $10 and WELL worth it! You can also use it as a portable flash drive for other regular files and stuff too! :beer:

Not only does it transfer a little faster, it is easier than fussing with the cables and it won't run your batteries down with the camera on while you transfer the pics. And you can take the card reader to other computers a lot easier than you can your whole camera.
Card reader all the way man!

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