CR2 File recovery from a formatted CF Card

[andybeel]

Hi
Does anyknow of software that will recover files from a formatted card?

I have tried Recova with no useful effect.

Thanks Andy Beel

 

[R Shaffer]

I used 'photo rescue pro' and it was able to recover maybe 3/4 of the files from a corrupted CF card. Think I had to pay $40 for it, but it worked reasonably well.

 

[ann]

you might try here.

MjM Photo Recovery Freeware download and reviews from SnapFiles

someone on another site recommended it, or try cardrecovery, i don't have a link for that and they will charge but it might be worth it.

 

[andybeel]

Hi Thanks Ann Photo Recovery worked if a little slowly. I managed to recovery JPGs not the raw files at least. Andy Beel

 

[gmikol]

It sounds like you had good luck with the software you tried, but I wanted to add that the one time I accidentally formatted a card like that, I had good luck with PhotoRec.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

If I remember correctly, it even recovered some files several formats old (due to not having been overwritten in the mean time). Though I think there was a minor issue in that it identified my CR2 files as TIF's, so I had to rename them. That was a couple years ago, and it seems to get regular improvements, so maybe that's not an issue anymore.

--Greg