A friend has baby pictures on an SD card, which said baby later found and used as an inappropriate teething aid. Yeah, yeah, I know …
He asked me to try to get the pictures back. I couldn’t read the card. It even fried one of my card readers. I tried RescuePRO, PhotoRec and PhotoRescue: no dice. Downtown Camera returned it as unreadable (and declined to charge me anything).
So I asked metafilter, and someone suggested Recoverfab in Germany. I sent the card off last week, and waited …
Got an e-mail at 06:30 this morning that they’d received the card, with a latest completion date of a week. Before 09:00, received a second e-mail with a link to picture samples and payment options. Have paid (not cheap – €89, but they got results) and am awaiting the FTP link.
Many thanks to Leopold Hiersche for his excellent results.
Many thanks for the suggestion. I have had damaged cards in the past and had to toss them away due to my lack of knowledge. Too bad I didn’t discover this earlier.
i have one sd card of camera, i took photos last time , and it is not recognise by the computer neither by the card reader. I need to get that photos in it , how should i get it.
Thanks so much for the information! You may have just saved our marriage!
Hi I had similar problem. Recover fab have also appeared to have solved my problem. I to had tried a couple of online card recovery sites with no success. Recoverfab have recently sent me examples of photos they have saved. Now awaiting confirmation of price which is quite high over 200 euros. Although I had lost only about 400 photos the price for recovery is based on the size of sd card which in my case was 32 gb. Have learned my lesson from this I will not use a such a large capacity card again. Suppose however you could argue the photos are priceless.
I have a memory card which was damaged somehow while inserting it into a picture frame.
It is of a trip my wife and I took some time ago. Since then, my wife has suffered a stroke, so we’re through traveling. As a result, I want to retain as many memories as I can of our previous life (before the stroke).
Thanks,
Bill Bean in Texas
My brother and my sister-inlaw were taking pictures on their honeymoon. While on the honeymoon their camera started giving “this card cannot be used” message. When she tried to plug the card into the computer it give “the disk must be formatted” message. Since I’m a nerd I told them to let me look at the card, and I ran recovery software on it. The computer showed that it recognized the card but that it was empty and needed to be formatted. I looked on the internet and found a company called Recoverfab. The reviews were good so I decided to take a chance, figuring that if they couldn’t recover the pictures that I wasn’t any worse off, since they don’t charge if nothing is recovered. I am so glad, they emailed me when they received the card, and again when they recovered them. They sent a sample of 100 pictures of the 938 pictures that they recovered. I know my brother and his wife will be so thankful to have their memories.
I used the recoverfab service it´s very professional and unfortunately i received my damaged SD card because the recovery attempt failed.
The response of recoverfab is: the reason the memory chip is phisically damaged.
Anybody knows an alternative?
Thanks
I have also used Recoverfab. My parents found that their SD card wasn’t working anymore and had been quoted £700 to recover the data which included photos from their 50th anniversary. The €150 offered by Recoverfab and the speed of service is well worth the money in comparison.
I have a memory card with movie and pictures that are dear to me but can’t get them Can you help me?
I can’t Jackie; I don’t offer this service but the company at the link does. Have you tried more conventional methods, like software recovery?