Recover files from a flash memory card

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By Phillip Torrone
Posted 2007/06/19 @ 8:00 am
Category Art & Design

Chris writes -

Phil – The other day my sd card failed on my digital camera. After buying a new camera and card to replace my beater and the dead card, I decided to try to recover about three weeks of pictures from the card. After a little searching I found this great utility from cgsecurity.org It is a free, open source, file recovery application for flash memory. First it recovered all the files from my card. When I verified that they were saved onto the hard drive, the next day I used the utility to repair the FAT boot sector. I am so psyched that I recovered the files, and now I have a spare 2 gig card after replacing it with a 4 gig SD. I would definitely use this software again. I will try to remember to offload from the card more often….

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6 Responses to Recover files from a flash memory card

alanv73 on June 19th, 2007 at 2:57 pm said:

What a coincidence! Recently I was helping a friend recover a crashed Windows 2000 hard drive. After we tried several commercial programs and failed, we gave up hope and formatted the drive. Then, I just happened across PhotoRec by chance and tried it on the formatted drive! We were able to recover all of his lost photos. A great utility in my book.

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leung on June 28th, 2008 at 12:34 pm said:

Thanks a lot.
My son accidentally formatted my photo memory card.
Thsi software recovered all my photo in it.

Thanks!

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Anonymous on July 11th, 2008 at 4:13 am said:

Great program. Quickly recovered all of the photos from a memory card that collapsed during transfer.

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Swiss James from ISpyShanghai.com on October 20th, 2008 at 10:29 pm said:

Not sure what happened to my memory card, but this program is currently getting them all back for me.

Thanks!

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leoseo on April 2nd, 2009 at 1:49 am said:

If you have problems with your memory card in 80% of all cases the controller of your card is damaged and no software or card reader can help. You must separate the memory chip and dump the raw data to recover your data, look here: http://card-recovery.biz/us/service.php

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sam on March 15th, 2010 at 6:20 am said:

After downloading the file, when i open it in WinZip it says that its not a valid archive
Please Help

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