I have a friend who went to the bahamas, flordia, etc. and took around 600 pics on their SD card. Then accidnetally erased them all (not sure if they did it through a pc or formatted on the camera). They said that Geek Squad told them it was doable for around $1,200... I did not think it was possible to begin with. Any geniuses out there know if it is possible to do on your own?

7/3/2010 2:36:26 PM

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/digitalcameras/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-your-sd-card/1102

i've had good luck with http://www.recuva.com

7/3/2010 2:48:06 PM

really easy to do if no new pics have been taken.

7/3/2010 2:56:29 PM

also consider this tool: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

7/3/2010 4:39:16 PM

recuva.com worked perfectly... Thank you so much!!!

7/3/2010 8:52:19 PM

was it over 9000 dollars though?

7/3/2010 9:13:03 PM

Recuva and PhotoRec are free; PhotoRec is even open-source, under the GPL.

7/3/2010 9:18:42 PM

sounds expensive. im leaving tech talk now.

7/3/2010 11:45:30 PM

Sometimes depending on the camera, your camera will not show up as a drive letter. You cannot run these recovery programs unless you put the card in a card reader... I haven't found a way to remap a USB port (\\.\usbscan0) for example as a drive letter.

7/4/2010 2:22:40 AM

Recovering should not be much of a prob.. there are plenty of recovery software out there.. Screw Geek Squad 1200$! yea rite! For that much you could prolly go back on vacation again!

7/7/2010 8:45:49 AM

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"i've had good luck with http://www.recuva.com"

7/7/2010 9:32:19 AM

Recuva is useful software, I've used it to recover accidentally deleted files on several machines.

7/7/2010 2:39:21 PM

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"Screw Geek Squad 1200$! yea rite! For that much you could prolly go back on vacation again!"

That's what I told them

7/7/2010 4:00:58 PM

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"Geek Squad told them it was doable for around $1,200"

Thieving bastards. But that's nothing new.

7/7/2010 4:31:12 PM