Data Recovery :(

[Kyle]

Situation:
Photos on a CF drive
Deleted the photos off, and put new ones on

Is there any possibility that the photos originally deleted would be recoverable?


All help appreciated

[hart]

Grab the trial version of GetDataBack for FAT (the filesystem used on flash drives) (from RunTime Software - http://www.runtime.org) and give it a try - explore all options it presents to you and you might get lucky. The trial version lets you look at the deleted files with a viewer of your choice (use something like Irfanview for JPG or CS2 for RAW) and then use the SAVE-AS function from within that viewer to save the image to your hard disk (NOT THE FLASH).

If you purchase the software, you can then recover entire drives without needing to do the view/save-as trick.

Good luck!

Cheers

Leigh

[Kyle]

Actually, I bought an Extreme3 card and got rescue pro and so far it's finding files well before my time, so I 'might' be lucky

[xorl]

Another option is PhotoRec. As a bonus it runs on many platform. However, the interface is a little screwy (from a *nix perspective anyway ).