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Nige - 14 Nov 2005 18:19 GMT

Could anyone tell me if it's possible to unerase images on a compact
flash card - providing they haven't been overwritten with new images?

Basically, I've just suffered a hard drive crash (before I had time to
burn images onto a DVD) and wondered if I could get ony of them back on
my Nikon Coolpix 5700. I have a card reader to connect the card to the
computer (if that's any help).

Has anyone had experience of this? Is compact flash it like computer
memory which doesn't actually wipe files until they're overwritten?

Any help would be gratefully received...

Nigel

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Trev - 14 Nov 2005 18:28 GMT

> Could anyone tell me if it's possible to unerase images on a compact
> flash card - providing they haven't been overwritten with new images?
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> Nigel

Yes. a few applications are designed for flash cards.
This was supplied on my disc from Minolta but I have not needed to use it
yet
http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

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Mark Dunn - 15 Nov 2005 09:10 GMT

I tried this. It works. Fascinating to see what it found.

> > Could anyone tell me if it's possible to unerase images on a compact
> > flash card - providing they haven't been overwritten with new images?
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> yet
> http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

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Trev - 15 Nov 2005 14:02 GMT

>I tried this. It works. Fascinating to see what it found.
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>> http://www.vaiosoft.com/products/recoverymanager.html

I once used a rescue application from karens powertoys It found files going
back over 5 years even after lots of defrags Of course not all where
complete as they would have been spread over lots of segments. But I can see
how the forensics boys work.

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Mick McCarron - 14 Nov 2005 19:12 GMT

> Could anyone tell me if it's possible to unerase images on a compact
> flash card - providing they haven't been overwritten with new images?
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> Nigel

Try, http://lc-tech.com/index.html

Regards Mick

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OG - 14 Nov 2005 22:00 GMT

> Could anyone tell me if it's possible to unerase images on a compact
> flash card - providing they haven't been overwritten with new images?
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> Any help would be gratefully received...

Couple of freeware products here.
I've tried this one and it works
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/smartrecovery.html

This one is simpler, a bit slower, but less than 1Mb to download
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/zaimagerecovery.html

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Tumbleweed - 14 Nov 2005 22:03 GMT

> Could anyone tell me if it's possible to unerase images on a compact
> flash card - providing they haven't been overwritten with new images?
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> Nigel

you are correct ow it works, you can even recover frma format in most cases.
search for "digital image recovery". Amongst the many hits, you should find
an app with this exact name. It is now (or was?) on sale but older freeware
(legitimate) versions of it are around as well. Works like a treat on
memorycards. There are plenty of other apps around but this has worked
flawlessly for me in the past.

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coal_brona@hotmail.com - 16 Nov 2005 21:50 GMT

Hi,

You can give Active@ undelete a try, it worked for me great and never
failed before, so this data recovery tool can be of a good usage to
you.

http://www.active-undelete.com/

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