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Title: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Diesel on April 08, 2014, 03:09:27 PM
Anyone reading this a data recovery guru?


I have 30 Gb of fantastic footage relating to the Ballarat National Rally and the journey to and from there LOCKED on my micro SD card!      :cuss


When I got home, I was deleting an unrequired file, when the process locked up. I pressed cancel and it eventually went off the screen, however, after an OS refresh, the pooter told be there was no card inserted. I ejected it, re-inserted and am now told the card needs to be formatted - format now?       :||||


I haven't done this yet until I ask you braniacs. I am certain the info is still on there - just unaccessible.


Do you have any constructive advice, or somewhere for me to send the card to attempt a data recovery?        :phone 


Here is an example.....   Data Recovery Specialist (http://www.datadetect.com.au/?gclid=CP2G9PqP0L0CFcwipQodo3cARg) - but they want $280 if successful, FREE if not.    :eek


Took it to one shop who wanted a $45 'booking in' fee before they'd even touch it.       :-(((


Prepared to pay around $30 to have it fixed. Any ideas?


Cheers, Diesel
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Marcus on April 08, 2014, 03:41:28 PM
Have you tried it on a mac?


http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/freeware_data_retrieval (http://whirlpool.net.au/wiki/freeware_data_retrieval)
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: STroppy on April 08, 2014, 03:51:40 PM
Dave, I suppose you have tried putting it back in the camera and connecting the camera to the PC?
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Brock on April 08, 2014, 04:58:16 PM
Send it to me, I have software ( pandora recovery) that should do the job
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Diesel on April 08, 2014, 08:53:31 PM
Not tried a mac yet - HAVE tried putting it back in the cam etc - thx for the ideas.

@Brock - thx mate - PM sent.

Cheers, Diesel
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Pezzz on April 09, 2014, 10:50:44 AM
Send it to me, I have software ( pandora recovery) that should do the job
Brock if you cannot retrieve with Pandora, let me know as i have full reg copy of Getdataback for NTFS and FAT
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Diesel on April 09, 2014, 11:02:15 AM
Okay - I tried the Pandora thingy - but can't get far enough for it to be effective. As soon as I put the SD card in, it tells me the card needs to be formatted. It is not that I am chasing deleted files - I just get a drive with 0 Kb and a request to format the card.

Does this help?
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Streak on April 09, 2014, 11:07:07 AM
Okay - I tried the Pandora thingy - but can't get far enough for it to be effective. As soon as I put the SD card in, it tells me the card needs to be formatted. It is not that I am chasing deleted files - I just get a drive with 0 Kb and a request to format the card.

Does this help?

I am getting the gut feeling that it is kaput......
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Pezzz on April 09, 2014, 11:18:25 AM
Okay - I tried the Pandora thingy - but can't get far enough for it to be effective. As soon as I put the SD card in, it tells me the card needs to be formatted. It is not that I am chasing deleted files - I just get a drive with 0 Kb and a request to format the card.

Does this help?
Diesel, you want something that can look past the allocation table for raw data. Was it formatted in FAT32 or NTFS??? Can you receive 8MB email ??
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Diesel on April 09, 2014, 11:20:16 AM
FAT32 and yes to 8Mb email.


Send to dieselst1300@gmail.com   pls
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Pezzz on April 09, 2014, 11:55:32 AM
FAT32 and yes to 8Mb email.
Send to dieselst1300@gmail.com   pls

Sorry i got caught on phone...  i have PMd you a link to my FTP server with a recovery tool there.
I will email zip file as well in case you have dramas getting into FTP.
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Pezzz on April 09, 2014, 11:57:01 AM
Emailed
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Brock on April 09, 2014, 06:05:45 PM
Just found this one, apparently free for recovering images

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm (http://www.z-a-recovery.com/download.htm)
Title: Re: Data recovery required from Contour Cam SD Card - can YOU help?
Post by: Sabie on April 09, 2014, 06:05:59 PM
Good luck DD ...