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Old 13-11-06, 13:13
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Available free written on Lexar CF cards is Image rescue - a software package to recover images from a card after deletion or format. I naturally installed this on my machine and after a little play thought it was useless only recovering thumbnails from formatted cards.

Late last week I was presented with a card that had been formatted accidentally and a few more images added. The job was to recover as many images as possible. I ran image rescue for real and found lots of thumbnails again. After setting up in preferences for JPEG and ignore thumbnails I recovered a whipping 850MB from a 1GB card.

The trick is to select the file format for it to recover and hey-presto works a treat. I did the extensive search and it found lots of images, some partially written over but the majority were recovered.

The card belonged to my Ladies boss and earned her a box of choccies - something a little wrong there

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http://store.lexar.com/index.cfm?cat...437-DWN&bhcp=1

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Thanks for this tip. Makes you wonder why the defaults haven't been set to recover jpegs as this is probably the most commonly used format for most users. Perhaps I should buy Lexar next time I'm looking for a card.
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Sandisk do a similar utility called Rescue Pro, it's a (free download), it works far better than the Lexar utility, it finds and recovers all types of files on any card, hard drive, floppy or what have you! It's very smoth, it will even format for you!

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Sandisk do a similar utility called Rescue Pro, it's a (free download),
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I found it here but not free.
Seems they have a send in card for free recovery.

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Sandisk do a similar utility called Rescue Pro, it's a (free download), it works far better than the Lexar utility, it finds and recovers all types of files on any card, hard drive, floppy or what have you! It's very smoth, it will even format for you!

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Just had a look, I'm afraid it's not a free download any more, but it apparently comes bundled on any of their "Extreme III" series of memory cards. I've yet to have the need for such a utility, but when you want it, you'll want it there and then. The tip I have picked up from a quick bit of research is, as soon as you have made an accidental deletion, stop using that card immediately. Using it to take pictures after you have deleted/formatted drastically reduces the chances of recovering any images from it.

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Yes you're right, just checked Sandisk web page, it's no longer a free download, must be down to market demand, more people using digital now!!

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