HELP - CF card image recovery needed

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Hi

Just spent a week on holiday with my first digital camera and took loads of
fanttastic pictures which I desperately want to recover..

However, the compact flash memory card was accidentially formatted (far too
easy to do on this camera in my opinion). The card was new and not
previously used. I have also not used the camera since the format.

I am hoping someone out there can tell me how I may recover the images off
this card. I feel reasonably certain that the data is there, but just the
index to the images has been wiped or just flagged as wiped as a full format
would've taken some time which wasn't the case.

Can anyone please help?


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Regards

Steve

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"Steve Morris" <Stephen.Morris@btinternet.com> wrote in message
news:40952665$0$12640$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net...
> Hi
>
> Just spent a week on holiday with my first digital camera and took loads
of
> fanttastic pictures which I desperately want to recover..
>
> However, the compact flash memory card was accidentially formatted (far
too
> easy to do on this camera in my opinion). The card was new and not
> previously used. I have also not used the camera since the format.
>
> I am hoping someone out there can tell me how I may recover the images off
> this card. I feel reasonably certain that the data is there, but just the
> index to the images has been wiped or just flagged as wiped as a full
format
> would've taken some time which wasn't the case.
>
> Can anyone please help?
>
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Steve
>
>
Try this:
Not free to use, but will tell if possible to recover.
http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/

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"Geo h" <Geo_H@webtv.net> wrote in message
news:4692-40953C56-76@storefull-3116.bay.webtv.net...
> Search Google for
> REST2514
>
> Works for me.
> Never format a Camera card in a computer..
> Just erase it.
>
>
> news:alt.discuss.vid-caps
> http://community-2.webtv.net/GEOH/FKEYS/
> http://community.webtv.net/Geo_H/DougsDoodles
>

You are correct.

Mark

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On Sun, 2 May 2004 17:50:21 +0100, "Steve Morris" wrote:

>Just spent a week on holiday with my first digital camera and took loads of
>fanttastic pictures which I desperately want to recover..
>
>However, the compact flash memory card was accidentially formatted (far too
>easy to do on this camera in my opinion). The card was new and not
>previously used. I have also not used the camera since the format.
>
>I am hoping someone out there can tell me how I may recover the images off
>this card. I feel reasonably certain that the data is there, but just the
>index to the images has been wiped or just flagged as wiped as a full format
>would've taken some time which wasn't the case.

Get Kurt Stege jpegdump and a cf card reader. the program is very
easy and straightforward - just 2 lines to enter into the command
line with the correct parameters...

Or if you're not cool with command line, try PC INSPECTOR smart
recovery:
http://www.pcinspector.de/smart_me [...] elcome.htm