WHAT THE HECK? *pics*

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BigB10293

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Originally posted by: virtualgames0
Hmmm I can't see how you can recover photos from a flash drive. It's not like a hard drive where the data on the platter is just marked deleted.
Interesting nevertheless.

No... this is exactly how it works. It uses a FAT to denote where the files are and when you delete them the FAT is updated without actually removing allocated LBAs. This consolidation of erased space occurs some indeterminate time later.

A flash drive is not THAT different from a hard drive from a logical point of view.
 

dderidex

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Originally posted by: mobobuff
What program did you use? Maybe the writers of the program decided it would be funny to have the program "recover" a few images of their choosing ;). They look like the geeky programming type.

Indeed - what software?

Might be amusing to take a whack at the cards I have, see if anything turns up....
 

imported_Stew

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Originally posted by: dderidex
Originally posted by: mobobuff
What program did you use? Maybe the writers of the program decided it would be funny to have the program "recover" a few images of their choosing ;). They look like the geeky programming type.

Indeed - what software?

Might be amusing to take a whack at the cards I have, see if anything turns up....
I used mmCard to initially get a preview of the photos on the card, then used PC Inspector to recover them.

 

AntisociaL

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Originally posted by: tm37
Originally posted by: AntisociaL
This happened to me once except it was pictures my friend and his wife took when I let them borrow my camera for a camping trip.

I was trying to recover a hard drive with Easy Recovery Professional and my memcard was in the slot reader at the time and suprisingly it showed up as one of the drives I could scan so I gave it a shot to see what all I deleted that it could dig up.

If you have ever let someone use your camera then give it a shot, who knows what you will find.

What did you find?
Just some boring pictures they took, nothing explicit.

 

imported_Stew

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Now, I bet anyone who was read this thread will be scanning memcards they buy.

Hope you guys post pics :p
 

Oyeve

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Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: OdiN
You've discovered how to get photos that haven't been taken yet.

These are the two fools who will later steal your camera. They are laughing at you because they saw this post and in the future took pictures of themselves flipping you off.
Perhaps SD stands for Sun Dog?


(Stephen King fans will understand that one ;) )

I was just thinking about this when I started reading this thread!