Re: SD Card data recovery
Zero Miles wrote:
Thank you all for the suggestions. With your help I was able to recover the photos that I wanted.
I first downloaded the free trial of EaseUS per Scrup's suggestion and was immediately able to see that all of my photos were still on the card. It is very quick and easy-to-use software, however the $70 price (for a month's use) made me want to try a free option first. (Something I didn't know until later--I had kept the application open for probably two days before closing it finally, and when doing so was offered a discount to purchase for $40. By this time I had already recovered what I wanted, but if this was the price I was offered to begin with I would have done it and saved myself a lot of time! Maybe a trick for the future.)
For a free option, I used Photorec per Advi's suggestion. The software is super bear bones and doesn't have a user interface (runs in command prompt), but it was free. I would suggest running it on your fastest computer, as I had better luck when I did so. The software was able to extract the photos I wanted, but only in JPEG. It did get some MP4 and RAW, but they were unusable. It also tends to duplicate photos during extraction. I should note it took 2 DAYS of running the program to eventually get all the photos I wanted. This was on a 2 year old 64GB card that wasn't completely full. It also does not recover the file names, but the EXIF data is intact.
So all-in-all, thank you all again for the help. For anyone in a similar situation I would try to get the discounted EaseUS product if possible. Otherwise, although slow, Photorec works as well.
Zero
Ah so then the card was detected!
Try R-Photo (free) from r-tt.com and see if it recovers the RAW file and MP4's. Best first use the create image feature and scan that rather than the card directly.