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Yesterday, I spent 3 hours taking pictures of birds (RAW) in the desert this time of year and had accidentally formatted the card after thinking I had transferred all of them onto my computer, I realized I was viewing and not transferring.

Today, I have tried using the free download from Wonderware to see if it could recover all of them. Unfortunately it only recovered half but not all. It tells me the other files were too large.

Could someone please tell me which program I should look into that would solve my dilemma, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
 
I use rescuepro from sandisk... usually get back any I delete by mistake, but it only saves the embedded jpg form raws
 
The thing is, I did not delete, but instead, I reformatted the card. The funny thing is, Wondershare only recovered quite a few RAW images but not all. I wondered why!
 
I've had good luck with photorec:

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Digital Picture and File Recovery

PhotoRec is a free and open source file carver data recovery software tool.
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Huyen Olson said:
Yesterday, I spent 3 hours taking pictures of birds (RAW) in the desert this time of year and had accidentally formatted the card after thinking I had transferred all of them onto my computer, I realized I was viewing and not transferring.

Today, I have tried using the free download from Wonderware to see if it could recover all of them. Unfortunately it only recovered half but not all. It tells me the other files were too large.

Could someone please tell me which program I should look into that would solve my dilemma, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
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Lexar Image Rescue has saved me a few times.
 
Huyen Olson said:
The thing is, I did not delete, but instead, I reformatted the card. The funny thing is, Wondershare only recovered quite a few RAW images but not all. I wondered why!
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I'm not an expert on this but I think the reformatting probably expunges the file allocation table rather than wiping the disk thoroughly. Recovery software looks for related file fragments and puts them together to rebuild the FAT.

Some files may have originally been recorded as more or less contiguous data (easy to recover) whereas others may have been spread in many different physical locations on the disk. In the latter case I can imagine ends of file markers not being found so resulting in apparently enormous files.

The foregoing may be nonsense!
 
Wahrsager said:
Lexar Image Rescue has saved me a few times.
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I had good results with that program as well on a micro SD card which stopped working in my phone.
 
David Lal said:
Huyen Olson said:
The thing is, I did not delete, but instead, I reformatted the card. The funny thing is, Wondershare only recovered quite a few RAW images but not all. I wondered why!
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I'm not an expert on this but I think the reformatting probably expunges the file allocation table rather than wiping the disk thoroughly. Recovery software looks for related file fragments and puts them together to rebuild the FAT.
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Me either, but just to add...

Deleting will remove the file pointers from the FAT to allow the the areas of the card containing those files to be overwritten, but leave the actual file bits'n'bytes pretty much untouched. If new files are not written to the card after the deletions, recovery software has a pretty good chance of finding all the information and putting it back together.

Formatting in camera writes a small amount of information to the card to create the folder structure, and might overwrite some parts of some of the files with that information, making recovery impossible. Sometimes it's just matter of luck. ;-)
 
photorec is capable of recovering .nef files. If none of the other suggestions work it might be worth playing with it some more. Make sure you have tif file recovery enabled. (NEF files are apparently based on TIFF.)

Huyen Olson said:
Thanks Fulano, I did try photorec but it couldn't recover any of the raw image.
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Huyen Olson said:
I will try that, thanks!
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I have version 4- it was free when I bought an XQD card years ago. It has worked on any card type I put in including a Micro SD card. It takes a while and you have to pay close attention to the instructions as you may be misled that the thumbnails are the actual recovered file.
 
GetDataBack has never failed me.
 
Shareware sent me a link to scan last night and the same thing happened. I even took a snapshot at the screen and sent it to them so they could see what really happened. They told me that I needed to load all the RAW files/images to my computer first and then do "recover". Of course, with a price.

I don't mind paying for something that would work but if the same thing happens after paying, what then?

The updated version shareware sent me could only recover most images, here and there, but not all.

I will try your link and hope it will solve my problem. Will keep you posted.

Thanks Mehigh.
 
I just opened the link and it only works on Windows. I have a MacBook pro so I am not sure that would work.

Thanks again!
 
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