Re: Recover broken SDHC card

[José Silva <jsantossilva@hotmail.com>]

On 07-09-2012 19:49, Klaus Pieper wrote:
> > Is it really broken? Have you mounted the SD card on another computer or
> > on a Windows system (just in case...)?
> Tried the camera and three computers with linux, xp and win7. Linux
> seems to recognize the device (/dev/sdb on this machine), so does xp
> (there is a drive e:), but it can't be accessed.
>
> > You can try with the usual recovery tools (Photorec and/or TestDisk¹) but
> > the success will depend on the level of damage on the card.
> >
> > If nothing helps, you can test with the tools provided by the card's
> > manufacturer (usually for Windows) but that's better than nothing ;-(
> >
> > ¹http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
>
> Tried photorec and the tool provided by sandisk, but both can't access
> the drive.
Some time ago I had a similar problem and I remember having tried a lot 
of recovering tools without success.

Then I tried a tool called scalpel and had partial success; but it was 
an application for Windows called GetDataBack (I think...google for it) 
that recovered 100% of my files, for my great relief. I think it was not 
free but had a trial period.

I seem to remember that I also couldn't get access to the drive, which 
had been NTFS.

Good luck.