retrieving lost pictures

[alanuofm]

hi. my friend's pictures were messed so she formatted the xD card on her olympus digital camera. is there a way to get the pictures back?

 

[apj101]

never tried recovery on a flash card before, i found a few web sites on google offering this facility
http://diskinternals.com/flash-recovery/features.shtml

 

[alanuofm]

yeah she formatted. i think everything is gone. i ran a few programs and it couldnt find anything.

 

[DanLatimer]

the program says that it can find images even if the card was formated.
very cool program apj101, very 007 haha. im going to get the trial de de de DE de de de! that was me humming the theme for 007 btw

 

[alanuofm]

when you format an xd card doesnt it write 0's back over everything?

 

[DanLatimer]

o i dont kno, i use SD

 

[computerhakk]

once its formatted its gone.

 

[apj101]

once its formatted its gone.

no it's not

when you format an xd card doesnt it write 0's back over everything?

when you format the master file tables and master boot record are cleared but the data is still on the drive or media just as it is for hard drives

 

[alanuofm]

i just tried that program and it didnt work

 

[Xelogen]

try a free program called Recovery. If you cant find anything then its likely that its gone

 

[DanLatimer]

I tried that and it worked perfectly for me, found lots of pics off my sd card

 

[alanuofm]

its a reformatted xD card though. almost all programs i see it can find reformatted sd card pictures. but nothing about reformatted xD. is there some sort of difference?

 

[DanLatimer]

maybe its a different format (fat16/32 etc..)

 

[celsdogg]

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

try this one, i hope it works. GL!