Deleted pics now corrupted

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digital21

Discussion Starter · Mar 14, 2011

Hello. I recently deleted some pictures off of an SD card and used a couple different programs I found to recover them. I did manage to recover them, but most of the ones that are recovered are no longer recognizeable. Please see below. I really need these pictures but I'm not sure if there are any programs out there to fix these pics. Not even sure how they got that way....Must have been something with the program when I deleted them?

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JimE

· #2 · Mar 15, 2011

They were likely overwritten. Either the files themselves, or the FAT. In any case, there isn't a way to "fix" them. The data is corrupted.

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digital21

Discussion Starter · #3 · Mar 15, 2011

that's what i was afraid of. i did have the files on my skydrive but then deleted it. i wonder if microsoft can recover that deleted folder i had?

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JimE

· #4 · Mar 15, 2011

You can try a data recovery service. It's not cheap.

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digital21

Discussion Starter · #5 · Mar 16, 2011

ya i was hoping i could recover it either free or low-cost. how much is 'not cheap?'

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JimE

· #6 · Mar 17, 2011

Data recovery services? For hard drives, it's a "per MB" cost, and is typically in the hundreds/thousands of dollars. Should be less for an SD card. Google data recovery and make a few calls. You may get lucky.

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digital21

Discussion Starter · #7 · Mar 17, 2011

it's too bad those free services didn't fix it. that's just weird that some of those pictures that i recovered got corrupted but then some didn't.....

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