velohead66

Hi All,

I believe that when pictures get deleted from SD cards on Lumix cameras, the picture does not get deleted per se, but the camera merely allows “that” specific memory allocation to be used for subsequent pictures.

Hope this makes sense, I’m not an IT boffin, LOL. Given the above scenario, I believe there is software around that allows “deep scanning” and retrieval of such supposedly “deleted” pictures.

Yes. I have deleted one “by mistake”. D’oh!



So my question is this….

Is the above correct ?

Has anyone done this ? (Or tried to do this ?)

What software to use ?

RobsyUK

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For years I kept all my family photos on a seagate hard drive and one day it died.
I was devastated and tried every recovery process online. In the endtime contacted a company who, after £300 (they gave me a friends and family discount of £150) manages to recover all 17,000 photos.

I now don't use Seagate hard drives as they have an 80% failure rate around the world and keep 3 copies on had on CD's

Contact the manufacture of the card and ask if they have a recovery department. Also contact recovery companies. Mine went to Holland IIRC.

RobsyUK

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denoboy72

Yes it is certainly possible, I have done this myself with some free software called recuva, works great with sd cards connected to a windows pc.

https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva

velohead66

Great, just what I am looking for, I'll give a whirl in the next few days.

velohead66

I did not know their failure rate was that high, I've had one of their external HDD fail.
But I believe you can take them apart and reset the arm to the correct position, as a short term fix.
Have not been bold enough to open it. Yet.

tarmac terror

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As already mentioned, Recuva is likely to do the job. If not, disk drill is a great tool for the same job, but may be Mac only, that's what I run mine on.