Data recovery on an SD card

[Beren]

As title really, does anyone have any idea if there is a way to recover data off a tempermental SD card without paying lots of money for specialist software?

Colleague at work has just lost all her holiday snaps and is just a touch gutted. I know utilities exist for hardrives etc, but don't know if they work for this kind of data?

 

[Beren]

No worries google was my friend. It looks like there is lots of free trial software that might do it.

Passing don can delete this unless somone can recommend a particular bit of software?

 

[Countcussy]

I once went on holiday with my shiny new Canon camera. One of the CF cards i took with me failed on the second day.

When i got home i found PC Inspector Smart recovery via Google.

It found every single lost photo and recovered all but one perfectly. It did not recover the video clips though.