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SD Card data recovery

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Joep van Steen
Joep van Steen Contributing Member • Posts: 575
Re: SD Card data recovery

Zero Miles wrote:

Hi all,

My SanDisk Extreme Plus SD card stopped working in my M6mk1 recently. It was about 2 years old. The camera says 'memory card error', and no computer I use is able to recognize the card (it says the card 'does not contain a recognizable file system'). I have not reformatted it yet for fear of losing data--there's about a month's worth of photos I didn't backup that were on there.

I know there's a plethora of software options out there, I'm not sure which ones to trust. A past thread on the forum recommended some software, but it costs about $70 to get any amount of data recovered. I'm willing to do that if needed, but I thought you all again first of any other options you have used.

Thank you!

In general, DIY recovery is possible as long as the card is ID'ed with correct capacity, and data was not overwritten or trimmed.

Best approach:

1. Create disk image (example, many tools can do this):

2 Recover data from disk image.

You can use DMDE (dmde.com), it recovers upto 4000 files per session/folder with free version, you can repeat this as often as you like.

R-Photo from r-tt.com is free for personal use and pretty good. It can also recover from the disk image made with DMDE.

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