Computer crashed and memory stick duo wiped

[david656]

Hi,

a friend of my has asked me if there is anything i can do with the above situation, i said i could try and read the card on another computer but that the chances of recovering anything was slim.

are there any obvious tips / things i should try ?

thanks

[Dr Zero]

Give this a try!

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/digital-image-recovery.htm

[Level42]

Yeah, I had good results with that one. A friend who was on holiday in Egypt had accidentally formatted his SD card.
It rescued about 85% of the pics !

[david656]

cheers guys  bookmarked for future reference! but it appears he had to actually turn the camera off and THEN on to accept the card  i assume that means he tried to put the card in with the camera still on or something stupid.. anyway it never got wiped.

but thanks again for the efforts :-)  and i set up his new pc and got a very nice graphics card and 2gig or ram out of it :-)

[Mauzy]

WOW! I ran this program on a 512 mb XD camera card with NO pictures that showed up in Explorer. Everything had been deleted as normal, but after running this program it found 142 pictures! Crazy stuff...

EDIT: I reformatted the card using Iolo Drive Scrubber which will "scrub" a drive up to 7 times to destroy any file remnants. I ran it on a 3 scrub cycle and it removed absolutely everything. Guess that works!

[protokatie]

Back in St Olaf, there was this guy, we used to call him Steve because that's what his name was, and he had lost all of his data on on his HD. It turns out that his Partition table had become corrupt. He called the village idiot (supposed computer genius) to help, but the guy charged a lot of money and didn't do a thing. I ended up having to deal with it (story of my life) and repartitioned the drive, reformated it and then did an unformat (gotta love norton disk doctor). Got all the files back (Albeit in the root directory) and I even got to blackmail him because half of the files were pron and he was married!

Lesson of this lesser known Rose story is that deleting something on a storage device does not actual remove the data; it simply earmarks the blocks for overwriting. It's scary what kind of old data you can retrieve, esp on an HD that is mostly empty, you can find deleted files from years ago

[Dr Zero]

Glad he didnt have to use it! 

I have used the one I posted and cardrecover both with great success, I formatted the wrong card once and it really saved my bacon.

I knew some guys at a pawnshop and they would run it on the cameras they bought and well there was some interesting stuff on those 

There are some new SD cards that are wifi also and when you get near a hot spot will send your pics home for you on the fly! Well a lady got her camera stole and it sent along pics of the thief and guess what they recovered the camera.