jaapv Posted June 4, 2015 Share #1 Posted June 4, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) I popped my SD card with about 180 images on it into the PC Laptop of an acquaintance, stupidly forgetting to lock it... Off to Rescue pro, I fear. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/245936-stupid-sd-mistake/?do=findComment&comment=2827604'>More sharing options...
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wda Posted June 4, 2015 Share #2 Posted June 4, 2015 Sorry to read this story Jaap. Easily done I'm afraid. That is why we have good image retrieval software. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
algrove Posted June 4, 2015 Share #3 Posted June 4, 2015 OK, so that I can learn from your mistake, what actually happened to your images? Did the friend have the computer set to erase your SD card after downloading/viewing? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share #4 Posted June 4, 2015 Hmmm... tried three recovery programs, no success. I'll have a go when I get home with Disk Warrior and try again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bocaburger Posted June 4, 2015 Share #6 Posted June 4, 2015 OK, so that I can learn from your mistake, what actually happened to your images? Did the friend have the computer set to erase your SD card after downloading/viewing? I want to know this too. What happened exactly? Virus? How would downloading the files affect the one's on the SD unless you used "cut+paste" instead of "copy+paste"? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share #7 Posted June 4, 2015 Advertisement (gone after registration) I have no idea what happened, we were only viewing the files from the card. But I do know the computer was able to write back to my card and corrupt it, it happened after I viewed it on the computer, unfortunately I did not download as well; I took one image after I found it could not be read by the camera (but it indicated the correct percentage on info) and that shot was recorded and displayed correctly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvaliquette Posted June 4, 2015 Share #8 Posted June 4, 2015 Although (fortunately) I have not had this experience myself, something similar happened to me (with non-photo data and software). I speculate that the image viewing software wrote some temporary file to your SD card and that you removed the card without Mr. Gates' permission ("Safe to remove hardware"). However, I find it hard to believe that photo recovery software did not find anything. Guy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted June 4, 2015 Share #9 Posted June 4, 2015 Jaap, Sorry about your misfortune. Did you try the SD card manufacturer's recovery program? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share #10 Posted June 4, 2015 I tried Rescue Pro and a couple of commercial ones. I'll have to look what Lexar does. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share #11 Posted June 4, 2015 Although (fortunately) I have not had this experience myself, something similar happened to me (with non-photo data and software). I speculate that the image viewing software wrote some temporary file to your SD card and that you removed the card without Mr. Gates' permission ("Safe to remove hardware"). However, I find it hard to believe that photo recovery software did not find anything. Guy No, I always eject the card safely... I'll keep looking, I think the bytes are still there, but that the headers are corrupt. The time stamps are all over the place too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bocaburger Posted June 4, 2015 Share #12 Posted June 4, 2015 That's scary. One reason why I'm still using a stack of 2GB cards vs a couple 32's or a 64. Sure hope you can rescue the files. Maybe worth paying a data recovery specialist if the images are worth it to you. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share #13 Posted June 4, 2015 They were fairly important, however, I was shooting my X2 in parallel so not all is lost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
smazzucato Posted June 4, 2015 Share #14 Posted June 4, 2015 Depending on the OS you are using, you should be able to make a backup of your SD card, as an image of the SD-card that is... so even you have more corruption on the SD-card, you have a backup you can work with. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
k-hawinkler Posted June 4, 2015 Share #15 Posted June 4, 2015 I tried Rescue Pro and a couple of commercial ones. I'll have to look what Lexar does. Lexar has now Image Rescue 5. My Lexar cards came with the CODE to unlock their software. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaapv Posted June 4, 2015 Author Share #16 Posted June 4, 2015 Depending on the OS you are using, you should be able to make a backup of your SD card, as an image of the SD-card that is... so even you have more corruption on the SD-card, you have a backup you can work with. Of course, and I will. I need to get to my MacPro. On the road right now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
t00l1024 Posted June 5, 2015 Share #17 Posted June 5, 2015 Not sure it helps, but I've had great success with Foremost (http://foremost.sourceforge.net/) under Linux for file recovery. You define what the file format looks like and the program walks over the drive to match the format. Examples are provided. Put the suspect card in your pocket until you can find some dedicated time to focus on the recovery process. Just compiled it with Xcode tools, so it should work under OS X too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
papimuzo Posted June 5, 2015 Share #18 Posted June 5, 2015 Sorry Jaap to see what happened. I can't remember if this tool is also valid for SD cards ,but you should have a look there: https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Hope you can recover your work. If I am true: it seems to me that you recommanded to protect your SD card before introduising them into a computer... Good luck. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheshireCat Posted June 7, 2015 Share #19 Posted June 7, 2015 If you don't write protect the card, before physically removing it, you must always tell the OS to "unmount" the device (different OS have different ways of doing that). Unmounting the device will flush the write caches, commiting all changes to the card, and stop accessing it. Now it is critical that you keep your card write-protected and run photorec and/or foremost as suggested by t00l1024. If you cannot rescue most of your files, then it usually means the card has a hardware problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mornnb Posted June 7, 2015 Share #20 Posted June 7, 2015 Usually if you're just accessing the files to read photos there won't be much data in the write cache. This issue is very unusual. It could be a hardware fault with the card. Or a virus. Or perhaps FAT tables were being updated when the card was ejected and were corrupted. It should be possible to recove the files if it is no more than corruption of the FAT tables. There are plenty of file recovery tools out there. I've even been able to recover deleted files off an SD card that a security guard demanded I delete off the camera. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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