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SD card - deleted pic recovery

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SirStev0

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Hey, not sure if I picked the right subforum (D&V camera?) to stick this in, but I need help recovering some graduation pictures off of an SD card. My cousin's kid got a hold of his phone and deleted the pictures of his son's kindergarden graduation. He asked me if I knew a way to recover the pics from the phone and I said I would give it a shot. Funny story on top of that, right before giving it to me he dropped it off of his deck and smashed the screen.

Luckily, the sd card looks just peachy, but the phone is completely fucked.

I googled around to find software to assist in photo recovery and a "how to guide" but a lot of the sites look like they are just selling stuff.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I have never tried recovery before, but I think with some advice I should be able to do it. He is about 95% sure he didn't take any pics or really save anything on the card since the deletion.

Thanks all.
And before it is even posted, any extracurricular "pics" I find on the phone would be shared by pm as long as they are deemed somewhat tasteful.
 
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There are a variety of tools to recover deleted files. And if no new files have been written to your SD card, the deleted files should be recoverable.

One of the tools you could use would be the free imager tool from AccessData.

If I were doing the recovery, I would place the SD card in a USB adapter. Plug it into my Windows PC. Make an Image of the SD card. (You can run the Imager Light from a USB stick...)

When you load the image into imager you should see all of the deleted files. Then, you can just restore them to your PC.

Realize that here are probably simpler ways of doing the same thing. But I haven't had my coffee yet.

Best of luck,
Uno
 
SirStev0 said:
If I do run into situation where some of them have been copied over is there any course to recover those files?
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Not that I'm aware of. Copied over means gone. Someone like the NSA might be able to recreate data with sufficient motivation, but otherwise it can't be economically done.
 
lxskllr said:
Not that I'm aware of. Copied over means gone. Someone like the NSA might be able to recreate data with sufficient motivation, but otherwise it can't be economically done.
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That is the impression I had.
My understanding of SD cards and memory in general is that when deleted the files aren't removed they are "okayed for rewrite".

One of the questions I was pondering was how it is decided where to "write" a file? Just to simplify things, say you have 10 spaces to store something. Space 1,2,3 and 4 are taken up by files. 5 and 6 had files but they were "deleted" 7,8,9, and 0 are open. So of the 6 potential "writable" spots does it write them randomly or does it tend to work in some sort of sequential order?
 
SirStev0 said:
One of the questions I was pondering was how it is decided where to "write" a file? Just to simplify things, say you have 10 spaces to store something. Space 1,2,3 and 4 are taken up by files. 5 and 6 had files but they were "deleted" 7,8,9, and 0 are open. So of the 6 potential "writable" spots does it write them randomly or does it tend to work in some sort of sequential order?
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There's usually logic circuitry that varies the write location to distribute wear. That's speaking in general terms. I don't know how it works with something like an SDcard. Record left on the card? Record in the camera? What happens when you use different cards?
 
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