Help - Accidentally formatted Sandisk Extreme

Prophet · 16 Oct 2006 at 08:51

A woman at work bought her husband a 350D for their 10th anniversairy. On returning he accidentally formatted the CF card while trying to display the pictures on the TV. Don't ask me how but as you can imagine his wife is a little upset as they've lost everything!

Is there anyway of recovering the data?

Cheers,
Neil.

morgan · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:09

there is a piece of software from sandisk that allows you to recover the files:

emails sandisk and ask for a copy.

Sinizterguy · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:10

And make sure you dont write anything to the card until you run that software.

wizardmaxx · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:12

PCI US Smartrecovery is a freeware program that specialises in image recovery. Works very well.

Prophet · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:20

Thanks guys.

She's going to give me the card tomorrow morning so I'll let you know how I get on!

I really hope it works as she's really upset as you can imagine!

SDK^ · 16 Oct 2006 at 09:35

It's essential they don't use the card in the camera. If they haven't then recovering all of the images is 100% guaranteed.

Prophet · 16 Oct 2006 at 11:35

SDK^ said:
It's essential they don't use the card in the camera. If they haven't then recovering all of the images is 100% guaranteed.

He tried to connect it to a TV then hit the wrong buttons several times, realised what he'd done, then turned it off.

I should now receive the card today, hopefully!

Prophet · 16 Oct 2006 at 14:23

I've just popped home with the CF card. I ran the program that comes with the Extreme III cards and managed to get back 186 out of a total of 200 shots.

She's over the moon!

Thanks for all the info guys

Richard T · 16 Oct 2006 at 15:13

glad you found the happy ending!

rich_g85 · 17 Oct 2006 at 11:12

What a result

Maybe the name of that software could be added to the Sticky?

MajorPart · 17 Oct 2006 at 12:47

I can't find my software, was it on a disk in the packaging of the Sandisk Card?

Any ideas where i can get the full version?

TRiP · 17 Oct 2006 at 18:26

MajorPart said:
I can't find my software, was it on a disk in the packaging of the Sandisk Card?

Any ideas where i can get the full version?

it comes on the mini cd with sandisk extreme cards, you can get it from ste sandisk site for $40

mcdiejdh · 17 Oct 2006 at 19:26

I bought a sandisk extreme when the price took a tumble because it worked out that the software was costing about £2 ish when compared to a Ultra II SD card. The software is cool but really it is much of a muchness, there are loads of tools to do this and some are free.

DizMatt · 17 Oct 2006 at 21:47

I use the sandisk recovery tool too and it's a winner nearly everytime for me