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 Posted:   Oct 17, 2016 - 12:49 PM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

Anyone familiar with data recovery software for SD cards?
I want to recover some pictures and videos from one that became damaged when I switched it from one device to another.
I’ve tried and like EasUs. It worked wonderfully well and restored pictures and videos with their original quality and names, but offers only 500mb of data recovery free. Not bad, but $70 is a bit more than I want to pay for the full software, since I’ll probably only use it once or twice. DiskDigger works for phones, but they have to be rooted for a full search and you also have to pay for the full software. Plus the pictures it recovers are only a fraction of the quality of the originals.
There are dozens of these types of programs available, but I don’t know which to trust safety-wise.
Any recommendations for good and safe freebies?
Thanks! - jack

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 17, 2016 - 1:33 PM   
 By:   Ado   (Member)

You are not going to get much for free.

I use Card Recovery, and it does recover accidentally deleted pictures and such, but yes, it is not free.
I cannot recall what I paid, I think less than $30.

 
 Posted:   Oct 17, 2016 - 1:38 PM   
 By:   ryanpaquet   (Member)

I've also had good success using card recovery, and not sure how much it costs.

 
 Posted:   Oct 17, 2016 - 2:00 PM   
 By:   jackfu   (Member)

You are not going to get much for free.

I use Card Recovery, and it does recover accidentally deleted pictures and such, but yes, it is not free.
I cannot recall what I paid, I think less than $30.


I've also had good success using card recovery, and not sure how much it costs.

Ado, ryanpaquet, thanks much! Understood about not much being free. I’ve read good reviews of CardRecovery. The full version is now $40, don’t know how much recovery you get with the trial version.
I’ve also read some good reviews of Recuva ($25 full version). I guess I shouldn’t be such a cheapskate.
Really, I’m more concerned with download safety what with so much malware around now.
Thanks again, any other recommendations are appreciated!

 
 
 Posted:   Oct 17, 2016 - 2:12 PM   
 By:   bagby   (Member)

I've used Lexar's Image Rescue 4 with excellent results. I believe it's at version 5 now and is about $35.

http://www.lexar.com/imagerescue

 
 Posted:   Oct 17, 2016 - 8:19 PM   
 By:   thx99   (Member)

The learning curve will probably be steeper than the tools referenced above, but the bare bones/evaluation version of the powerful WinHex tool is free, though there appears to be a size limitation with recovered files. I don't know what the limitation is, other than that it can't recover "large files" (see functionality chart here: http://winhex.com/winhex/comparison.html)

Download page for WinHex Eval. Version: http://winhex.com/winhex/index-m.html

I use the fully-functional version (X-Ways Forensics) in my work and highly recommend it.

 
 Posted:   Oct 17, 2016 - 8:48 PM   
 By:   Adm Naismith   (Member)

recuva

Active@ File Recovery

 
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