My friend kept a TON of photos on his SD card from about January, and when he deleted them, he did it through the in-camera system. In any case, now the card does not show up when plugged into a PC or Mac... and the camera gives a read error whenever it is turned on with the card in.
We are currently looking at a few Data Recovery services, but it is a 1.0gb SD Card and the places that I have seen want about $125 for this. This is a lot more than I was expecting, and I'm curious if anybody can offer some advice. Other services, or any other cheaper alternatives.
r u asking if you can recover the SD so that can it be use again? "TON of photos on his SD card from about January, and when he deleted them " I assume you have nothing left in the SD with that statement. Just reformat the SD using Panasonic SDformatter V 2.0
I think you can still find a solution from a data recovery company and no where else. As your card doesn't show up i assume its corrupted so i see no software recovery solutions but of course you can still find a good recovery company that can really retrieve your data but you will have to compromise with the price.
In your case i don't think $125 is too much because last time when i went through this and was looking for best recovery software it cost me around $250
If you are lucky there are possibilities for good recovery under $125
Consult these experts they might give a better option.
My friend kept a TON of photos on his SD card from about January, and when he deleted them, he did it through the in-camera system. In any case, now the card does not show up when plugged into a PC or Mac... and the camera gives a read error whenever it is turned on with the card in.
We are currently looking at a few Data Recovery services, but it is a 1.0gb SD Card and the places that I have seen want about $125 for this. This is a lot more than I was expecting, and I'm curious if anybody can offer some advice. Other services, or any other cheaper alternatives.
Yes, there are cheaper alternatives. It's data recovery software on PC. You may need a card reader to connect your SD card to a PC. Download a third-party software, I would recommend you one with free trial, you can use it without paying anything: http://www.recovery-programs.com/recover-photos.html