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undeleting files from cf card

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  • USB Card Reader
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March 25, 2013 7:56:47 PM

i have accidentally deleted some pictures from my cf card (via usb card reader from windows 7). i have realized it immediately, and just a few seconds later downloaded and run recuva software (from another disk, of course). however, it was unable to help me: it does see some of the missing filenames, but it cannot restore the contents since it says the data has already been overwritten by another file. this another file has been present there for days, however! it was already there when i deleted the photos!
how can it be?
and are there any other options available? i've also tried deep scan, but it does not see anything either. now i have a few gigabytes free space on my card, and i know it contains my data, since the card was full before i deleted it, and i have not written anything there yet, but i cannot recover it

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March 25, 2013 8:28:48 PM

KTO,
Try this free program from Convar: http://www.pcinspector.de/SmartRecovery/info.htm?langua...

They are a German company so make sure you choose the English information. With the program you choose a source driver (the USB reader) and create a recovery folder on you PC. It will attempt to recover all the files and place then in the recovery folder. I've had mixed results but I have been able to recover a bunch of photos from cards I've wiped by mistake. Of course there's no guarantee that header data won't be damaged, but you should get some back, even fragments.
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April 2, 2013 2:11:11 AM

kto said:
i have accidentally deleted some pictures from my cf card (via usb card reader from windows 7). i have realized it immediately, and just a few seconds later downloaded and run recuva software (from another disk, of course). however, it was unable to help me: it does see some of the missing filenames, but it cannot restore the contents since it says the data has already been overwritten by another file. this another file has been present there for days, however! it was already there when i deleted the photos!
how can it be?
and are there any other options available? i've also tried deep scan, but it does not see anything either. now i have a few gigabytes free space on my card, and i know it contains my data, since the card was full before i deleted it, and i have not written anything there yet, but i cannot recover it


Once you delete files, you need to stop using that drive to make sure data is not overwritten. Recuva will see some files that are partially recoverable but you can't really use them, unfortunately. You could try other data recovery tools as well, but I'm afraid if the file was overwritten already the chances of success are slim. I recommend Reincubate Recover Files, free version is good enough. Good luck!

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July 2, 2013 7:49:49 PM

Are you sure you've not overwritten your deleted files on this CF card?

Actually, as I know, the deleted files are not actually deleted and only become inaccessible on the CF card. But, anything new saved on this card may erase your original files and make them gone permanently.
Therefore, you should take care not to do it.

In order to undelete your files, you could try a third party data recovery freeware to take a chance.

Read more information of data recovery freeware here:
http://blog4mark.blogspot.com/2012/11/deleted-photo-rec...

Next time, you should never forget to make data backups.
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September 8, 2013 8:32:45 PM

Lots of support at the site to walk you through the austere interface. Good luck
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September 18, 2013 6:41:39 AM

great. once files are deleted, they are not recoverable.thank you
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December 29, 2013 6:04:39 PM

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December 29, 2013 6:04:44 PM

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