Can data on a SD/MMC card be recovered if deleted?

[Epoman]

like on a HD? If I delete it is it gone forever?

 

[zimu]

about 90% sure yeah it is gone for good. happened to me before. its flash memory, so its much like ram in that sense- once deleted its gone.

 

[Epoman]

Good, I'm glad i'm returning a MMC and I don't want my stuff on there seen (I deleted it)

 

[ProviaFan]

Hmm, trying your hand at producing some por... uh... nevermind.

Anyway, undelete software especially for memory cards does exist; PhotoRescue is one example. Memory cards use the FAT or FAT32 filesystems, and the same principles of file storage apply to them as apply to floppies and hard disks: unless more files have been written to the storage device on top of the location where the original data was, the data is still there, and there's a good chance that some good undelete software can recover the entry in the directory listing.

 

[Epoman]

Thanks for the reply, I'm glad I kept the card instead of returning it