Help, some idiots erased photos...

[jeevescat]

Some muppet has deleted a load of pictures taken on my mother in laws Olympus compact camera,thankfully it wasn't me, but I'm trying to help save the poor guys life. Anyone know if there is a way to recover the files from the card, it's a 512mb xD card.

[RameshUK]

Do not use the card. Take it to a recovery company/peson and they should be able to undelete it for you.

Found this via google.com

http://www.cardrecovery.com

use at your own risk !

Ramesh

[nelly111s]

Google rescue software - there's loads about. Some shareware, some that shows you the results before you buy (eg Recover Plus)

[jeevescat]

Yeah, I'm trying one now, but unfortunately some photos were taken after the disk was wiped which means it's highly unlikely anything will be found.

Poor chap, think he's for the chop!!

[Lotusespritforum]

I hope you'll be pleasantly surprised. The camera won't automatically overwrite old file data but will look for free space to store pics initially, leaving the untagged but hopefully intact pics on the card. Some good software should yield results.

[2jamesl]

I used one of these software files just yesterday, found 180 photographs which had been formatted, deleted, corrupted etc, it works perfectly

[jeevescat]

Thanks for the help guys, I trawled google, downloaded and ran numerous recovery packages, but not a sausage.

Campion, if you're reading this, you've still got time to leave the country!