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TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.

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NOTE If seeked lost file are still missing, give PhotoRec a try. PhotoRec is a signature based file recovery utility and may be able to recover your data where other methods failed.

PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted.

use stellar phoenix or easy recovery professional. had my mom format her sd card, she forgot to back it up, pulled back photos from 4months +, and she takes about a roll an hour on vacations (full disk every half day) lol
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Nowadays, there are plenty f recover software out there. Some of them are free, some of them are paid. Some of them are efficient, some of them are disappointing. Therefore, you should carefully select a reliable one.
If you have no any idea about it, you could try a free SD card recovery program that has ever helped me retrieve all my deleted photos. It is recommended by my friend. He says he also has used it before. It always works well.

So, if you wan to try it, you could download it there:-http://blog4mark.blogspot.com/2012/12/sd-card-photo-rec...

Important note: The original data can be overwritten by new data and gone permanently. Therefore, you should not save anything new on this memory card.
You should learn to back up your important data on a different memory card or drive.

mohinder said:
Hello,
the card was used for video recording and formatted and used for stills camera for pictures
is it possible to recover the video footage?
thanks

a simple deletion won’t remove all data at once, instead, the data contained in the deleted files are just marked as deleted, and it is still intact on your SD card and recoverable. Therefore, when you delete precious photos, videos and other data in SD card by mistake, don’t panic. But stop using your SD card immediately in case of overwriting!
But if you make new data into the sd card, it may destroy some data that may be recovered. But some may be recovered.
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I've used Myjad Photo Data Recovery to successfully recover deleted files from an SD card in the past, I've also used it to recover files from a hard drive that Windows couldn't read. So I think it could quite probably do what you're.
See more at http://www.myjad.com/recover-sd-card-data.html
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