Desperate camera HELP....I erased the pictures!

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Desperate camera HELP....I erased the pictures!

I re-formatted my camera card with the graduation pictures on it....

Don't ask why I was such an A** but I was trying to change a setting and hit the wrong thingy......they are the only pixs of DDs room-mates' nursing pinning ceremony....plus other great pixs.

I am extremely unhappy and upset and will pay ANYTHING to get these back.

Can anybody suggest where I can go to get this fixed?????????
or who to call......????????


anyone????????

[shaggy Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close shaggy]

Pat, god I hope I'm wrong but I think they are lost forever. I accidently reformated my camera and lost my only pics of a bear sitting on her haunches eating berries. shaggy

[gophish Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close gophish]

Pat, Unfortunately when yuu reformat a Memory card think it actually does a distructive write over the data (photos) unlike when you do an erase of files where the data is still there but the file allocation tables get changed to show the files are erased. However just to be sure you could contact a good local computer store to see if they can do anything to recover the data.
Again, I'm sorry to say I don't think they will be able to but it is worth a shot anyway. Check with a good computer store and see if they do any file recovery work or know anyone that does in your area.

[ricki999 Member Find all posts View Profile Close ricki999]

Found this article on the web:

Lost Your Digital Photos? Stay Calm

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

Take the disk to a computer shop that does data recovery. If it's a disk such as an SD disk, they can put it in a SD disk reader that will see it as a lettered drive, and they can attempt a file recovery.

Good luck.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Take the disk to a computer shop that does data recovery. If it's a disk such as an SD disk, they can put it in a SD disk reader that will see it as a lettered drive, and they can attempt a file recovery.

Good luck.

Found this article on the web:

Lost Your Digital Photos? Stay Calm

Thanks everyone for the info and a phone call from Emmy...

I feel more hopeful at this point.....will keep you posted.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

The images certainly may be recoverable as long as you haven't used the card again since. It will require specialist software to do the job but it can be done.

[JEFF H Member Find all posts View Profile Close JEFF H]

I have used a Program called File Scavenger that was able to recover photos on a drive I reformatted.

File Scavenger - Free Software Downloads and Software Reviews - Download.com

[Emily Member Find all posts View Profile Close Emily]

We took a 4 day vacation to DC a few years ago and I deleted all the pictures on my card and wrote over them before I knew it. I was soooo sick.

I purchased a program called Picture Rescue and was able to recover all my pictures in perfect quality. Even the movie clips of my family I recorded at the Kennedy Center.

I was amazed that it came back as if it never went away.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

I am heading out to buy a card reader right now.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Thank you all so much....

Yippee!

Ended up trying Photo Recovery Software to Recover Images and Pictures - Card Recovery and was able to get most pictures back.
I am so grateful for all your suggestions and encouragement.

A Big THANKS to all

[IreneLF Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close IreneLF]

I'm happy to hear that you were able to -- AND that this can be done.
I thought you were a goner for sure --
Don't believe everything you read in the book that comes with the camera then....

[lawren2 Malibu Beach Barbie & A Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close lawren2]

Yippee!

Ended up trying Photo Recovery Software to Recover Images and Pictures - Card Recovery and was able to get most pictures back.
I am so grateful for all your suggestions and encouragement.

A Big THANKS to all

I had no advice for you but thank goodness their were plenty that did. I'm so glad you were able to recover the pictures.

[Ryne08 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Ryne08]

Take the disk to a computer shop that does data recovery. If it's a disk such as an SD disk, they can put it in a SD disk reader that will see it as a lettered drive, and they can attempt a file recovery.

Good luck.

Ditto, you are correct all is not lost.
However, do not take any new pictures on that disk.
One added picture and all is lost.

[GrayFal Silver Contributor and supermoderator Find all posts View Profile Close GrayFal]

Ditto, you are correct all is not lost.
However, do not take any new pictures on that disk.
One added picture and all is lost.

Well actually I DID take more pictures on the disk as it was the only disk I had with me at the graduation - which is also why I said I got MOST of the pictures back,,,,,but I am still happy to have as many back as I got which was 60 more then I had before this all started!