Recover camera photos after SD card crash?

[VALUEV]

Hello, I have encountered an unpleasant event. My 64gb sd stick from my camera has failed and all my photos are gone. The card is no longer readable on the camera. When I connect the card to the PC it shows up as empty and asks for formatting.

After a bit of googling, I realised that you need special software to recover photos. I even tried a few, but did not achieve the desired result ......


Does anyone know how to help me?

 

[azt]

Hello, I have encountered an unpleasant event. My 64gb sd stick from my camera has failed and all my photos are gone. The card is no longer readable on the camera. When I connect the card to the PC it shows up as empty and asks for formatting.

After a bit of googling, I realised that you need special software to recover photos. I even tried a few, but did not achieve the desired result ......


Does anyone know how to help me?

Do a search for photorec, it's free software and runs on a pc. I have used this many times on Linux OS to retrieve deleted photos/files, even if the disk has been reformated. You should be able to get all your photos back.

 

[azt]

Do a search for photorec, it's free software and runs on a pc. I have used this many times on Linux OS to retrieve deleted photos/files, even if the disk has been reformated. You should be able to get all your photos back.

Sorry here is the link to the software:

Client Challenge

 

[VALUEV]

Sorry here is the link to the software:

Client Challenge

Yes, it's the first programme I've tried. It was able to find about 20% of my material. This result doesn't work for me. I'm looking for more ...

 

[azt]

Yes, it's the first programme I've tried. It was able to find about 20% of my material. This result doesn't work for me. I'm looking for more ...

You can also try testdisk: https://testdisk.en.softonic.com/

The only time I have not been able to recover lost files with this program is when the disk read/write head has been damaged. This shouldn't apply to you as you've got an sd card.

If this doesn't work I don't know what else to try!

 

[VALUEV]

I managed to recover most of the material.

I came across this video on YouTube.

Hetman Partition Recovery was able to recover 90% of the data from the flash drive. This is probably the best result so far. Overall, I'm satisfied because I managed to recover most of the data for little money.Thank you all for your help)

 

[azt]

I managed to recover most of the material.

I came across this video on YouTube.

Hetman Partition Recovery was able to recover 90% of the data from the flash drive. This is probably the best result so far. Overall, I'm satisfied because I managed to recover most of the data for little money.Thank you all for your help)

Thanks for sharing

 

[Islineclear3_1]

What's the make/model of the camera and SD card?

 

[Bevan Price]

One reminder from this - NEVER rely on a single device or location to store all your photos or other data. Always have at least one back-up copy - and preferably more than one. Even "the cloud" is vulnerable if the operator goes out of business.

 

[Islineclear3_1]

As the OP hasn't yet replied to post #8, may I respectfully add to @Bevan Price advice and don't buy cheap memory cards; they're a false economy. Also, best to spread your pictures over a few smaller-capacity memory cards rather than one huge capacity memory card.

What I used to do was to back up to a portable drive "in the field" but haven't really needed to as I've never had a memory card failure (now I've said it.... )

 

[Ken X]

For those of us who are happy with using the ubiquitous smartphone camera, I have used OneDrive to instantly send copies of photos to the cloud at the time of taking. It's a bit data hungry and there may be better options but it worked for me.

 

[Western 52]

Golden rule of computing- no such thing as too many backups! I back photos up to my pc, an external hard drive, OneDrive and a website!