Anonymous Posted on Aug 15, 2008

Vanished pictures recovery

Hi, I have this camera and the weirdest thing happened. The memory had about 30-50 pictures and Today when I took some pictures and I checked, the memory only contained today's pictures and the rest of the pictures are gone.

Can anyone please help me fix this picture because I need to recover them.

Thank you in advance!

Anonymous Aug 15, 2008

Does it matter if I have protected my remaining pictures?

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First do not panic! It is possible to recover your pictures if you take care. Take the card from the camera (powered off) and if it has a "write protect" tab then lock it now. Do not try and write anything to the card or you risk causing more problems.

You can either plug in you camera to the PC as it should appear as a “Removable Drive” or put the card in a card reader attached to your PC.

Next, if you are comfortable with using a PC then you can download a FREE utility that will recover your photos from the following link:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

If you need something a little more "user friendly" then you will need to buy the software. If you search the web for photo recovery software you will find many.
One I have used successfully is RescuePro that used to be bundled with some Sandisk products. Now you can get it from the link below:

http://www.lc-tech.com/software/prwindetail.html.

You can try the demo to see what you can recover before buying.

Remember - Do NOT try & write anything back to the card until you can recover your pictures to your PC safely!

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