Re: digital forensics - recovering images from a memory card with trashed file system
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 22:36:28 +0200, Micha (michf@post.tau.ac.il) wrote:
> After my camera died on a recent trip I bought a new one (nikon s52 if it
> helps). Due to some bug and bad timing on button presses the camera trashed the
> file system somehow. Based on the number of images it can write to disk it
> seems that the images are still there, but what I see under the directory is
> some directories with trashed file names that can't be used and some files with
> a size of 1TB that are junk (on a 2GB card).
>
> I'm looking for a way to rescue the images (jpegs) if possible. I tried rstudio
> under windows but it only found some AVIs but not the images (at least using
> the basic settings).
>
> Are there any programs (linux, windows or mac) that may be able to recover the
> images, or any other way to do it?
>
> It was a new (and formated) card so that there is a chance that the images
> written in some order but I don't know enough about this hardware.
>
> The card is a 2GB transcend secure digital (sd)
I seem to remember that this Windows freeware may do the job:
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/smart_recovery/info.htm?language=1
if not, then maybe it was this one:
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1
It is a few years since I used it, but it might be worth a try.
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Bob Cox. Stoke Gifford, near Bristol, UK.
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