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Formatting Digital Camera


Question Posted Tuesday May 22 2007, 5:43 pm

I have a Digital Concepts(that's the name brand) 3.1 Mega Pixel digital camera. I was trying to find out how to lock my photos so that they couldn't be deleted, and I accidentally hit 'format' instead. Now, it says that no files exist on my camera. It has a memory card with it, also. These pictures are very important to me and I would really like to have them back. Is there anyway to get them back?

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Additional info, added Wednesday May 23 2007, 1:01 pm:
I would really appreciate any ideas at all on how to get my pictures back. I've been at the same school for 11 years and I'm transferring this year, and the pictures are of all my friends and the school. Please help!.

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monkeylin answered Wednesday March 30 2011, 4:29 am:
The answer is definitely Yes. You can recover those deleted/lost pictures and videos. But your have to rely on some photo recovery software as it's the most effective way. Have a try of Wondershare Photo Recovery. This program applies advanced algorithm deep scan your phone memory to seek for your lost pictures and video files. You may get the program here,
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Note: before the pictures/photos are recovered from the card or hard drive, do not put more files in case the deleted items are overwritten.

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DangerNerd answered Wednesday May 23 2007, 5:25 pm:
Hello there,

I know of two tools that both have free trials to see what the full version could recover, but will require payment before you can actually get the stuff back.

The first:

"CardRecovery™ is the leading photo recovery software for digital memory card used by digital camera. It can effectively recover lost, deleted, corrupted or formatted photos and video files from various memory cards. It supports almost all memory card types including SmartMedia, Compact Flash CF, Secure Digital Card SD, Memory Stick, MicroDrive, xD Picture Card, Multimedia Card MMC, MicroSD, MiniSD and much more."

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The second:

"eIMAGE Recovery is an intelligent tool with an easy-to-use interface. It has many powerful features to help you recover digital images and media files lost on corrupted, erased or damaged memory cards. It can also recover files lost due to virus attack and electronic failure. Memory cards supported include compact flash, smartmedia, memory sticks, mmd, XD, multimedia or secure digital memory cards."

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Let me know in feedback how you do with those, and if you do buy one, which one worked best for you personally.

DN.

P.S. I will include some more info below, mostly so other people can find this easily.
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More info about Card Recovery:

CardRecovery, the award-winning digital photo recovery software is the reliable solution for digital image recovery, digital picture recovery, digital media recovery, photo rescue, photo restore, data recovery, or whether files were deleted, the storage was damaged or formatted.

Our unique and exclusive SmartScan technology completes those impossible recovery tasks that other software cannot touch -- SmartScan quickly locates and restores files that other recovery software could never find.

Using CardRecovery is safe and risk-free. The software performs READ-ONLY operations on your memory card. It doesn't move, delete, and modify the data on the card to avoid causing further damage or overwriting. It recovers the photos and movie clips from the source memory card and saves them to the destination location you specify.


CardRecovery Features

Recover deleted photos from memory cards.
Recover lost photos from memory cards.
Recover photos from formatted memory cards.
Recover photos from damaged, unreadable or defective memory cards.
Recover pictures from removable storage including floppy disks, Zip disks etc.
Recover images, audio/video, MP3/MP4 files from cellular phones, MP3 players, PDAs.
Supported Storage

Compact Flash card, CF card recovery
Memory Stick, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro, Memory Stick Pro Duo recovery
Secure Digital card, SD card, miniSD, MicroSD, TransFlash memory card recovery
MultiMedia card, MMC card recovery
SmartMedia, SM card recovery
xD Picture card recovery
Micro Drive, MicroDrive recovery
Cellular phone, PDA, MP3 and MP4 player digital media recovery
Floppy disk, Zip disk digital image recovery
Supported Situations


Photos deleted accidentally or intentionally from memory cards.
Photo loss due to formatting or "Delete All" operation.
Memory card error or damage, or inaccessible memory card.
Corruption due to the card being pulled out while your camera is on.
Damage due to turning your camera off during a write/read process.
Data corruption due to critical areas damage e.g. FAT, ROOT, BOOT area damage.
Data loss due to using between different cameras/computers/devices.
Other events that could cause damage to data.
Supported Photo Types

Common Picture Formats: JPG JPEG TIF GIF TIF PNG BMP
Common Video Formats: AVI MPG MPEG MOV ASF
Common Audio Formats: MP3 MP4 WAV
Common Archive Formats: ZIP RAR
RAW Image Formats: Nikon NEF, Canon CRW CR2, Kodak DCR, Konica Minolta MRW, Fuji RAF, Sigma X3F, Pentax PEF, Sony SRF, Olympus ORF and more.
Supported Camera Brands

Nikon, Canon, Kodak, FujiFilm, Casio, Olympus, Sony, SamSung, Panasonic
Fuji, Konica-Minolta, HP, Agfa, NEC, Imation, Sanyo, Epson, IBM, Goldstar
LG, SHARP, Lexar, Mitsubishi, Kyocera, JVC, Leica, Phillips, Toshiba, SanDisk
Chinon, Ricoh, Hitachi, Pentax, Kinon, Verbatim, Vivitar, Yashica, Argus, Lumix
Polaroid, Sigma and almost all digital camera brands in the market.


System Requirements


Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003/Vista
RAM 64MB or above
Free hard drive space 2 MB for Installation
Free hard drive space 128MB or above for photo scan & recovery
A memory card reader if your camera cannot appear as a drive letter

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More info about eIMAGE Recovery:

System requirements:
Windows ME/NT/2000/XP/2003 and Vista
64 megabytes of RAM (128 or more megabytes recommended)
Hard drive or another storage such as Iomega Zip, Jazz , Orb, USB 'Pen Drive', LS-120, floppy disk or other removable media types for save recovered files.
FAT12/16/32 and NTFS


Flash Card Suppored:
Manufacturers of Digital Media - Apacer, Agfa, AVB, Canon, Casio, Compaq, DataPack Portable PC Card, DataTraveler 2.0, Dycam, NEC Digimaster, Epson, Ericsson, Everex, Fuji, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Hama, HP, Intel StrataFlash, JVC, Kingston, Kingmax, Kodak, Konica, Kyocera, LG Electronics, Memorex, Minolta, Mitsubishi, Mustek, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, PC Card Hard Drive, Pentax, Philips, Polaroid, Pontis, PQI, Promaster by Wolfe's Camera, Pretec, RCA, Ricoh, Ridata, Ritek, Samsung, SanDisk, Sanyo, Sharp, Sony, Sigma, Sound Vision, SuperMedia, SuperMedia Pro, Super Talent, Transcend, Toshiba, Verbatim, Umax, Vivitar, Xelo, Flash RAM, Ramjet, Yashica and more.

Product Supported
We can recover:
SmartMedia SM
CompactFlash CF
Secure Digital SD
Memory Stick MS
Sony Memory Stick
MultiMedia Card MMC
Digital Cell Phones
Secure Digital SD
PDAs
Zip Disks
Hard Disks
PCMCIA PC
Floppy drive readers
IBM Micro Drive
Compact flash
Memory stick

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