Comments on: Deleted photo crisis

Question: Deleted photo crisis

londongeezer — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:42:33 -0800

I accidentally deleted, in-camera, an important and unrepeatable picture. It was written to a sony memory stick pro in a sony cybershot dsc-p150 camera. Any way to retrieve it?

By: KevCed

KevCed — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:49:49 -0800

This article on gizmodo might help.

By: azlondon

azlondon — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:01:08 -0800

Take a look at this thread - As long as you can get the raw data off the memory stick, you have a good chance.

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:10:45 -0800

In linux, I would...

dd if=/dev/memorystick of=~/memorystickdata

...and then operate on that instead of the memory stick.

Not sure what the Windows equivalent is.

By: unSane

unSane — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:48:34 -0800

in OS X, what you do first is make a bit-for-bit disk image of the memory stick using Disk Utility, then use Data Rescue X to retrieve all the jpeg data. In most cases your image will still be there if you have not shot a load of stuff that has over written it.

If you don't have a mac, someone who has a mac should be able to do this. I will happily provide more detailed instructions.

In the meantime, take the memory stick out of the camera and DO NOT use it.

By: Gungho

Gungho — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:51:52 -0800

www.mediarecover.com I bought this online, and it worked for me on an SD card.

If you think the picture is on the top few pictures of the card the free version may be able to recover it.

By: dorian

dorian — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:04:41 -0800

convar are hard core.

By: StarForce5

StarForce5 — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:42:07 -0800

PhotoRec is a GNU freeware file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures (Photo Recovery) from digital camera memory, as well as lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom.

By: Leenie

Leenie — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:52:55 -0800

Since most of the other options here are for Linux and Mac users (smart people), I thought I would offer a Windows solution.

PhotoRecovery from www.software-recovery.com has worked for my family in recovering data off of computer memory cards and old ZIP disks - even one that suffered the click of death...

A plus is that the software does not alter the card itself. It extracts what it can from the file system and places them in a folder called 'Recovered' in the My Pictures are of the My Documents folder. (This can be changed).

The software saved perhaps a hundred holiday photos for us - making my wife much easier to live with. Works great.

Connect the camera to the computer and give it a try.

By: londongeezer

londongeezer — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:58:44 -0800

Thanks for all this help. I have a mac and also a pc so I will give one or if necessary more ideas a go. Again, many thanks, will report back.

By: DrtyBlvd

DrtyBlvd — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:00:11 -0800

80% probability you can get it back - use Ontrack Recovery.

MOST IMPORTANT - Do NOT take any more pictures on the card, or transfer any files - or you run the risk of over-writing the space where the image was stored; if that happens, then you most likely won't be able to retrieve it.

By: londongeezer

londongeezer — Sat, 10 Jun 2006 03:58:17 -0800

Got it! Thanks a million everyone. I tried windows solutions simply because my laptop happens to be a sony and has a memory stick slot. For the record, PhotoRecovery (recommended by Leenie) didn't find it but PhotoRec (StarForce5) did.