Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

[Andy B]

I formatted a CF card in my 7D mkII by mistake before downloading the images . They are RAW - CR2 files Any suggestions as to how I can "un-format" the card or any (free?) software that will recover the files?
Any help and suggestions would be much appreciated

[Peter H]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

Hi Andy
In the past I have used the ' Recuvver' (correct spelling) software. I believe there is both a free and purchasable version.
I think it will depend on what type of format you used but it might be worth a try.
You can get it from Download.com still I think.
Peter H

[ST-EOS]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

Hi Andy
In the past I have used the ' Recuvver' (correct spelling) software. I believe there is both a free and purchasable version.
I think it will depend on what type of format you used but it might be worth a try.
You can get it from Download.com still I think.
Peter H

I will second the use of Recuver, it works well. Make sure of you use it to search for "all" file types to ensure it finds the raw files
The free version is fine in my experience.


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[John Liddle]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

It's actually "Recuva" - available from MajorGeeks amongst other places.

You can also try ZAR (Zero Assumption Recovery) - also free and available from MajorGeeks

[Enigma]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

If it would help, I can PM a licence key to allow you to use a copy of SanDisk's recovery software - they supply a licence with many of their products. As long as you only did a regular quick format and have not performed any subsequent writes to the card then you should be able to recover the data. Depending exactly how Canon formats cards you might lose the first character of the filenames as a common deletion technique is to simply blank the first character of the filename.

[Andy B]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

Many thanks for all your suggestions. I used a free version of Recuva which after a couple of attempts found over 170 images that I had taken at the Prescott Hill climb on Saturday. Downloaded OK and I'm now doing a bit of editing.
Thanks again.

[ST-EOS]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

That worked out OK then Andy

[rcarca]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

Great to hear a happy ending to that story!

[John Liddle]

Re: Recover Images from a Formatted CF card

Downloaded OK and I'm now doing a bit of editing.

Phew!!!