My wife and I just had our first child. My mother-in-law took some photos at delivery, but formatted the card on accident. She was using the stock 32MB card that came w/ her camera and filled it up w/ just a couple shots. She told me that she changed the resolution on the camera so she could take some more photos (i didn't advise her to do this). When she went to show my mom the delivery photos it only had 3 photos she had just taken. After talking w/ her a little bit she mentioned the word format. I've tried several recovery options including badcopy pro, but to no avail. Is there no hope to recover these images?
This worked a treat on my MicroSD card..... TestDisk & PhotoRec - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com
At work (I work in a photography shop), we use the software that Sandisk bundles with some of its memory cards. I forget what it's called, but a google search should find it for you. If that can't recover the photos, then I'm afraid that there isn't much of a chance!
thomas, I just tried the sandisk tool. It shows the images that were written after the format and some jpg's that show up black. I had tried another program that produced these same "broken" jpg's, but I couldn't repair them. Thoughts?
It sounds like you're out of luck. If the old JPEGs are showing up as files, then that would suggest it has found references to them in the 'contents list' of the memory card, but the actual data isn't where it is supposed to be.
