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nvidia:
hey guys found some of my old sd card and wanted to recover some files off them I may have deleted

any free program out there I could use?
Halcyon:
If it's just photos, videos and other media QPhotoRec is probably your best option.

Runtime Software also made a free version of their GetDataBack software called GetDataBack Simple 1.02, but I'm not sure if they offer it anymore. You might be able to find a link to the previous version.
nvidia:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 20, 2018, 01:44:17 am ---If it's just photos, videos and other media QPhotoRec is probably your best option.

Runtime Software also made a free version of their GetDataBack software called GetDataBack Simple 1.02, but I'm not sure if they offer it anymore. You might be able to find a link to the previous version.

--- End quote ---

thanks I will give PhotoRec 7.1 a try will it work on formatted sd card I know  2 or 3 where formatted because I wanted to use in another camera but never did
Halcyon:

--- Quote from: nvidia on October 20, 2018, 02:11:46 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 20, 2018, 01:44:17 am ---If it's just photos, videos and other media QPhotoRec is probably your best option.

Runtime Software also made a free version of their GetDataBack software called GetDataBack Simple 1.02, but I'm not sure if they offer it anymore. You might be able to find a link to the previous version.

--- End quote ---

thanks I will give PhotoRec 7.1 a try will it work on formatted sd card I know  2 or 3 where formatted because I wanted to use in another camera but never did

--- End quote ---

Formatting almost never actually overwrites data on a storage device, it just recreates the partition table and marks the rest of the disk empty for overwriting leaving most/all of the data intact.
BradC:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 20, 2018, 04:48:44 am ---
--- Quote from: nvidia on October 20, 2018, 02:11:46 am ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on October 20, 2018, 01:44:17 am ---If it's just photos, videos and other media QPhotoRec is probably your best option.

Runtime Software also made a free version of their GetDataBack software called GetDataBack Simple 1.02, but I'm not sure if they offer it anymore. You might be able to find a link to the previous version.

--- End quote ---

thanks I will give PhotoRec 7.1 a try will it work on formatted sd card I know  2 or 3 where formatted because I wanted to use in another camera but never did

--- End quote ---

Formatting almost never actually overwrites data on a storage device, it just recreates the partition table and marks the rest of the disk empty for overwriting leaving most/all of the data intact.

--- End quote ---

True, but it wipes the FAT so any files that were fragmented are pretty hard to recover as there is nothing left to link the fragments. There are a few apps good at recovering contiguous files though.
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