Recover pictures from a formatted micro sd card HELP

[liveforeva]

Hi
My girlfriends nan has recently had a new phone. Her old phone had an SD card in it with all her pictures saved on to it.

She has put the SD card into her new phone and now the SD card Is empty. I think she has formatted it unknowingly as everything is gone.

I have used a few programs now to try and recover the deleted photos the most recent program being disc drill and all have found nothing apart from the folders but nothing is in the folders.

Would the phone have done a full format or is there another reason why I can't recover anything? Is there anything else I could do or try ? before I have to give her the bad news.

Thanks

 

[liveforeva]

Try Photorec. I've managed to recover files using that when other options came up with nothing.

Thanks
I've just tried this and still not finding nothing.

 

[liveforeva]

Try Recuva. It often gets recommended on these forums.

Thanks but already tried it and nothing.

 

[liveforeva]

If Photorec and Recuva haven't found anything, I think there's nothing there to be found. A friend formatted get MicroSD when moving from a Galaxy S7 to an S9, I assumed it would do a quick format and leave the data intact, but when I viewed the memory card even in a raw hex editor, it was all zeros. Looks like newer phones at least actually do full formats, sadly.

Just what I thought unfortunately.
Thank you for you help.

 

[liveforeva]

Try this :- https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Never used this, so not sure how well it i

I've already used that and it didn't find anything but I'll give it another go following that video.
Thanks