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I had a card I was unable to pull anything off of using Recuva, but had great success (#Borat) using Zero Assumption Recovery. Got all of my wife's cell phone pictures back!
the best option to delete the files is to simply replace the hard drive with a new one and reimage it. You can then destroy the original at your leisure.
you can take the removed drive and then scan it with the appropriate software at your leisure. My personal favorite is ZAR, but I am sure that there are others out there.
I happen to like "Agent Ransack" for a search tool, but there are many out there, and I am sure others will recommend others. It lets you search for file names and contents by regular expression if desired.
before removing the drive, be sure to undo any drive, folder, etc encryption.
I had this problem and was able to recover my files.
I used ZAR to recover my files, and it worked great!
Zero Assumption Recovery, http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
This is a free tool (demo) that will work to recover all your media files, but if you choose to get a license it will recover everything.
whatever you do, do not format the card until you have tried a recovery program.
As others have said
And over view of the process for recovery would be
- Turn off the System
- remove the Hard drive
- Attach this hard drive to Computer system that is operational, Mount in Read Only mode if your operating system supports that.
- run Imaging software to get a Read Only Image of the Disk
- Run recovery Software
I have had luck using Zero Assumption Recovery Software in the past, it is not free, but it will allow you to run the software and it will tell you what it can recover before you buy.
The key part is to REMOVE THE DISK FROM THE OPERATING COMPUTE if you are running the new windows installation from this disk you are reducing the chances you will be able to recover the files you are seeking
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Recovering images from an SD card is really different than recovering it from standard media, the way that they work is functionally the same but the implementation is skewed. DO NOT continue trying to get any kind of information off of it with a standard recovery program, unfortunately, these have more than likely already corrupted some of the images. Unfortunately, I'm at work right now, but what you are going to want to look up is a program called ZAR, or Zero Assumption Recovery (if I recall the acronym properly). I've had to use it a couple of times for the stereotypical "lol wuts a backup" clients , and it works perfectly for SD cards. Again, do not attempt to do anything else with a card until you have run this program first. Best of luck!
Edit: Here's the link, no longer on mobile so I can do a bit more
OK. You can try to make raw image of the card using this: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd. Go to the download section and download dd-0.3.zip. Pop the card in, open command prompt go to the folder with the program and type dd --list, make sure which drive letter is assigned to your card, than copy and paste this:
dd if=\.\f: of=D:\disk_image.dd bs=4k --size --progress
Replace f: with your card letter ("if" stands for input file and "of", output file, this the path where you want to save image to). When this is done, download and install this: http://www.osforensics.com/tools/mount-disk-images.html, and mount your image, after it mounts it's just going to be another drive in your system. Then you can try to work on this image with this: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/. Good luck.
OK, this sounds much more realistic as a self build project. I was just concerned that it would be 100% mission critical, in which case you'd probably be better off outsourcing it to someone who does this for a living.
This and this should give you some pointers regarding your RAID setup.
I would also recommend you look at something like the Supermicro barebones servers - as these have redundant power, cooling, and so on, as well as more options for remote monitoring and management.
A proper battery-backed hardware RAID card is also a must.
I haven't had a need to use this program yet, but I keep it handy: ZAR Digital Image Recovery
There's no need to pay to get the images recovered.
Good luck!
You can try z to a recovery to see if you have any better luck. I have recovered full office files using this program before. I also recovered bits and pieces of files, which can be opened as a .txt file, and possibly let you see some important data within the document.
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ is the website
I found this on another forum:
Look closely in the lower right pane of Disk Management at the Partition on the drive. It has some information displayed there. Look for the File System. If it is NTFS, you should be OK to use it. But a common problem seems to be it shows as RAW, which means that a little of the Partition or Format tables is wrong and Windows can't figure it out. If you see RAW as your File System, search the web for ways to fix a RAW Format and recover your data.
And later on in that topic that this program was able to fix it if indeed was 'RAW'
Well it's not always 512KB blocks. The block size is entirely dependent on the size selected when the set is built.
I generally see 64KB blocks as the default, for generalized data. If the volume contains video I've seen recommendations to go larger for performance reasons, but most people probably just stick with the default.
Either way, 64KB or even 512KB of binary data imo isn't going to tell you a lot. Open any binary file on your machine using a hex editor and you'll see some things, but most of it isn't human readable.
I've gone through the pain of trying to recover pieces of a failed RAID set. Even with recovery tools (this is the one I used), and all of the disks in the set it's very difficult to get much from it (a lot of the files were unrecognizable). Reading individual blocks would be a needle in a haystack, but I guess given enough time one might find something.
I was able to successfully recover all of my data (around 500GB) off 1 TB HDD with the help of "ZAR Recovery" (http://www.z-a-recovery.com/) which imo is hands-down one of the best recovery software out there. If memory servers, it took me over 8+ hours to complete the scan of my HDD. And, then I copied everything to my friend's external HDD, then only formatted mine and copied everything back. Grab a full version of ZAR recovery from some blogspot or software sharing site.
I was stressed asf the whole time.
Don't Panic! Remember: PATIENCE IS KEY!
You say "stopped working." Can you give a little more information? Is it recognized by the computer, but it says the data is unreadable? Does the drive light up, but not get mounted by the computer? Does it make an audible clicking noise (or any other noise, other than normal whirring?)
If there's a clicking noise, you're probably boned. It means that the read head is probably broken.
If not, you should check whether it's that computer, that USB port, etc. If that still doesn't work, see if you can open up the external HD case and plug in your own cable. You can go to one of the stores you mentioned before and get a 2.5" HD external enclosure or SATA->USB cable. Shouldn't cost you more than $10-20. Try hooking it up to your computer and see what happens.
As long as you can get your computer to recognize that something has been plugged in, you should be able to save at least some of the data with ZAR or similar software.
I would suggest Zar Data Recovery They do an outstanding job of data recovery and digital photo recovery work with the free version of ZAR, they also provide a known camera compatibility list.
Zar is the best from my personal experiance and it's free to recover pictures and videos. Download it here
As for "Can you" ... yes and no. anything that was overwritten won't be able to be recovered no matter what you use. But anything in it's current freespace should recover easily even if it was reformatted. As long as it wasn't "wiped" with a multi pass system. Just make sure the drive you are recovering to is lager then the drive you are recovering from and you should be good to go.
Just because some files were written to the drive does not mean that the file you are looking for were necessarily overwritten.
I had a similar thing happen with an external drive and an Xbox. None of the files I lost were especially important to me. Music and movies mostly that I could rerip. I tried several different programs and the one that worked best in my case was ZAR Zero Assumptions Recovery. It has a free scan that allows you to recover a few files, and isn't terribly expensive if you want to recover more at once.
It is very likely that at least some of your pictures can be saved. The most important thing to do right now is STOP putting any more pictures on the card.
Download a file recovery program, I use: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
Let it scan your SD card and hopefully it will recover your images. Then either format the SD or buy a new one. It is possible that the file system got corrupted, meaning the card itself is fine. The other possibility is that the card is damaged and will need to be replaced.
Pretty unlikely from what I have seen. I dont really think it has malware, just a corrupted FAT.
My guess is that she didn't know it was used on one. It was from Oct 23rd 2013, so its been a while. The ~$* files also lead me to believe it was actually on a mac, not that it really matters.
I would try ZeroAssumption's Demo to see if / what you could recover. If it shows nothing, maybe try /u/RecoveryForce 's suggestion.
There's a chance you can recover those files, OP.
Check this out: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
Install it on a second computer and hook up the HDD with the data you need to recover.
It's saved my ass before.
I'm sure you've tried google results (first result points to a software called ZAR) and if they are not working then you might want to ask this to /r/computerforensics/
Good luck!
Don't write anything else to the card or you risk overwriting recoverable data. Full yet empty is a good sign they're recoverable. Try these programs to attempt to recover the photos:
Try using the zero assumptions recovery software on the old PC or laptop where the photos used to be. You may be pleasently surprised by how many pix you get back.
It is probably disconnecting because windows is trying to make sense of the file system. It might also be over heating.
What you need is a recovery system that will not care about the bad sectors. (identifies them, skips over the bad sectors)
there are a number of excellent free utilities out there, but you may eventually need a commercial tool
My personal choice ZAR, found at http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ which is inexpensive, and which does an excellent job.
Here are a few links to free programs that recover data from accidentally formatted SD cards, you could give them a try. Not sure if they will help with your backups. I found quite a bit of info on the subject from a Google search. http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ http://www.photo-recovery-software.net/features.html http://www.cardrecovery.com/download.asp
My tool of choice is Zero Assumption Recovery, which I have paid for. They also offer a free film card recovery tool.
There are a number of free image recovery tools out there, including such things like Recuva which work well
I am sure that many other folks will have plenty of excellent suggestions.
It is possible that, due to static electricity, etc, that the card is actually zapped, and all of the bits got reset to zeros.
Which is a short coming of electronic media vs magnetic media.
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I had this same problem last month. I bought some software for 60 bucks and it recovered everything. It is on sale now for 30. :| http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
I installed the software on a working Windows 7 machine and connected both the drives. My drives were RAID 0. You can download it for free to see if it will work before you pay for it.
Also, just found this which might help you out: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
as suggested by some random guy on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/comments/78ljxc/corrupt_sd_card_success_story/
Ah, I see. To be honest, I stopped caring about the normalized score since I've seen a few disks that failed and all the values were rated ok*... (I'm doing tech support for friends and collect old hardware that nobody needs anymore to play around with)
According to this site 99 could mean that something is very slightly off indeed, but well, who knows what Samsung means with that, this seems to depend on the manufacturer...
* I've got a hard drive that fails to read the MBR (first 512 bytes on the disk; rather essential for normal operation) but states that it's quite ok with all values on 100 except Raw_Read_Error_Rate (normalized=78, threshold=62), Reallocated_Sector_Count (normalized=93, threshold=5) and Reallocated_Event_Count (normalized=74, threshold=0) and no value below threshold. There have been 788 reallocation events (ouch) and 65536 G-Sense-Errors (uh oh, that's 2^16, I wonder whether that's a coincidence) so I guess the guy who had it before I got it wasn't too careful with it. All those errors in just 177 hours - really, how bad can someone handle a notebook? Poor hard drive :-/
In other words: I wouldn't rely on how well the disk claims to be but on the raw values and especially backups regardless of what the disk says :-)
Recovering from a device's internal memory is tricky. I've tried soldering the memory chips onto usb's and a weird more direct routes with wires and the boards themselves. So far I've destroyed about 10 of my old phones playing around with this idea and all have been unsuccessful. Your best bet is to try to get the device itself to power up and use a program like ZAR that can read raw drives connected through usb and recovery that way. The free version of ZAR only does photo recovery. The full version is about $70 so not worth it for some music in my opinion. Either way that depends on finding a way to power and connect the device.
I have had great success with using Zero Assumption Recovery to restore files from RAW partitions. Download the free trial and give it a shot. If it lets you get your files, go buy another drive and run the scan again. If the free version is too limited, or you just want to support the developer(s), buy it. :)
I don't remember. I uninstalled it and can't find it in my browser history (this was months ago).
Maybe try these?
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/storage/how-recover-files-from-dead-sd-card-image-3481659/
http://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/card-recovery-software/sd-card-recovery-freeware.htm
i posted this as a response in the wrong thread, thought i posted here.
Good luck man, sometimes when a drive is failing you get some early warning signs. Missing or corrupted files and folders, slow load times and laggy issues where there shouldn't be. and sometimes they just decide they don't want to work anymore. Either way it sucks balls. Some recovery programs like ZAR X (zero assumption recovery) can read Raw disks and get you back whats left in the sectors that aren't bad.The free version can recover pictures and videos but to get other filetypes back you need to buy the paid version. here is their site if you need it. ZAR
Along with the many excellent options mentioned here, I've had excellent luck recovering files with ZAR. I had a machine crap the bed the other day (256 GB drive mounted as a 16 MB drive) and was able to recover all of the users data with this tool. Granted, it took a while, but it worked.
I've used Zero Assumption Recovery before on knackered SD cards, it basically digs everything off the card, so can be a bit of work to find what you want, but might work.
I have had great luck with ZAR.
It is non-destructive and free to see if the software can recover anything
Install it on a windows box, with the 3 drives (does not matter that they are Linux MD RAID, it wills can and pick it up or should I have not used it on MD Raid but it seems to scan for that when it runs.....)
Outside of that there is PhotoRec but while that will recover data, it will not recover the folder structure and file names it will be a mess.
run the "Data Recovery for Windows and linux" option and see what the software can find.
In the Future remember that your data is not backed up unless there are 3 copies of it all times (with one copy off site), if you are deleting 1 set of backups you have to create it somewhere else before deleting.
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I've had the best success with an obscure product called Zero Assumption Recovery, but you're probably out of luck. Data recovery is extremely difficult on modern hard drives.
I used the tool on this website to recover a few hundred wedding photos for a client of mine. It might possibly work for your purposes. It reads the data that is remaining and attempts to re-write the missing spots to kind of "fill in the blanks"
if you cannot rebuild, then you will need some data recovery software and an external drive.
This will cost money.
The software I recommend is here. It will recovery from raid, and is not hugely expensive.
I felt my copy was good enough that I paid for it.
better explanation. when a file is deleted it is not actually deleted it is marked as writable space and when you create a new file is it written to any space that is marked as writable / free space. if you use a data shredder program when it is delete it is deleted and then generally overwritten multiple times which then makes it hard / impossible to recover. try this http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ have used this before and have had success but cant guarantee esp if file has been overwritten
Did you by any chance have Dropbox automatic camera upload turned on?
Also, I have successfully used ZAR to recover photos that were accidentally deleted from an SD card. No idea if it will work on a phone, and it only works on a PC, but I've had it work before.
I can confirm from personal experience that this software is excellent for general data recovery, and the free version of it does image recovery (just JPEGs, you'd need a paid licence version to recover raw files).
True. Drive A and B start reading block 1 and C reads half of block 2. Then A (assuming its here) would read the remainder of block 2 and B and C would each read half of block 3 and so on. It really does seem like it should be faster than 2x for sequential reads.
I'm not sure why every site (such as these) I have looked at say otherwise. Maybe its because they factor in more random access?
Sure, I just downloaded ZAR. But I can't tell you if it was any good or not since it only found files that were already known to exist. Thanks to you and /u/Mikerbice for the tips on other recovery software.
Yeah I've been an iphone user since the original and made the jump to the S4 with my girlfriend last year. Loving it so far just bummed that she lost her pictures. Have it sync'd to dropbox now so that no more catastrophes happen in the future. If you have any other recommendations for keeping photos safe let me know!
As side note, how hard is it to root one of these phones? Does it depend on carrier? Cause if so, we're both on Docomo and might be screwed there, too. Plus I don't want to brick our phones.
http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ did wonders for me. Runs only on Windows, though. But it can, besides Windows FAT and NTFS, also recover Linux ext2/3/4, and XFS volumes.
It recently recovered 99.8% or so of a seemingly completely lost disk for me.
Recently, my external USB hard drive (1 TB) seemed to suddenly have lost all of its data. Drive seemed formatted, even though I hadn't formatted it. It just suddenly had 1 TB free, and no files.
I searched the web, tried a few things that didn't really work (Recuva, etc), but then found Zero Assumption Recovery, which is commercial but offers a trial download that a) can recover a limited number of files, but b) shows you what files can actually be recovered by the full version.
I went ahead and bought the full version.
It recovered nearly all (I'd say 99.8%) of my files! And, as opposed to some other tools, it managed to rebuild the entire directory tree, with all folder and file names intact, and with the files in their right folders.
It saved my life!
DISCLAIMER: I am in no way affiliated to ZAR data recovery.
I then went ahead and bought me some online backup with CrashPlan.
Safe, safe at last...
So, no, they don't ALL scam you out of money.
Try this: http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
I had an SD card that was actually crashing my computer when I tried to access it's content. With this software I was able to get everything on it quite easily.
Well, there's your problem. Obviously files are scrambled and the directory no longer is matching the sectors on the hard drive. You have serious and perhaps unrecoverable directory damage.
I have had success recovering files from badly damaged drives using one of these tools:
Unfortunately, you may not. Good luck.
I hope that the drive you are trying to recover is not the system drive, and does not have a swap file or temp files on it.
These things will just merrily stomp and stampede all over your data turning it into digital road kill, often within minutes.
If everything is in the primary system partition, then because of the swap files and temps files, etc. you can basically kiss it goodbye.
If you have to install software into the same drive that you are trying to recover from, this is simply awful, for similar reasons.
If you want to do data recovery, then you want to be sure that the drive has not been used since the files were deleted. Any use puts the data to be recovered at risk. Minutes and seconds count.
If you have to recover from a live drive, what you do is shut the system down as soon as possible, and boot from a live cd (such as Hirens, etc) and run a recovery tool that is programmed into that CD to copy data to a second external drive, etc.
Reading between the lines of what you posted, your data might already be toasted.
sorry.
the best chance scenario is to remove the hard drive from the computer >>>NOW<<< and run it as an external drive on another system.
Use a commercial tool like ZAR (http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ highly recommended) to scan the entire drive, and copy recovered files to a second hard drive of sufficient size.
hope you have good luck