jimmy.farrow7 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I know this is off topic but i am panicking and dont know what to do. My phone turned off at work tonight and i put it on charge at the end of shift. When i went to use it i noticed my SD card wasn't reading. I removed it gave it a wipe still nothing and plugged into my laptop and it is not reading anything. I am really annoyed as i have nearly 5000 pictures on there from the last 3 years including a recent holiday where i proposed to my misses. I know i should have backed it up at some point . Is there anyway i can recover the pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 (edited) There's a couple of ways. A quick google will reveal any amount of recovery software you can download (take usual precautions downloading off the web), install and attempt recovery, which you may want to try first. That said, given how important your proposal photos will be to you, if that doesn't work, I'd be tempted to do another google for Data Recovery Specialist and then get them to do it for you, assuming you don't mind them seeing what's on there. http://www.alphr.com/blogs/2013/10/16/how-to-recover-photos-from-a-corrupted-memory-card Edited July 24, 2015 by SuperStu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy.farrow7 Posted July 24, 2015 Author Share Posted July 24, 2015 Cheers bud, i have just tried downloading Zar recovery, lets see how i get on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SithOllie Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 When you plug the disk in, does it come up as blank? unrecognised? unreadable? Personally i recommend recuva for memory cards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mudman Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Give Recuva a go mate - that can work and is free Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veilside z Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Do hope you can recover the data buddy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Yeah recuva is pretty good, make sure u do a deep scan, if it doesn't recognise the card in windows u could try a quick format, do so at your own risk tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 This is a good wakeup call to everybody reading this to go and back their stuff up now. And then backup the backup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Kroll ontrack data recovery is also very good but not cheap !!! Free trial - http://www.krollontrack.co.uk/data-recovery/recovery-software/data-recovery-software/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masa Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 This is a good wakeup call to everybody reading this to go and back their stuff up now. And then backup the backup. But don't backup the backup on the same device as the backup! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hah, good point! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masa Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I cannot recommend NAS drives enough for backups; you can get huge amounts of storage space for sub £100, I have 3 2TB NAS drives on my private network, one for media streaming, one for data storage and one purely for backups; the whole setup cost me about £300 a couple of years ago but I cannot fault them! I admit I went slightly overdrive with 3 separate NAS's but I work with implementing a lot of redundancy for commercial enterprises and it's something I've got so used to doing that it's almost second nature. Oh, ALWAYS keep your install disks for Windows/Mac OS because if something goes drastically wrong, they are the easiest way to fix the problem. PM me for any help IT related, I'm more than happy to help 😊 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 (edited) Don't do anything to the card, don't rewrite any files on it, don't format it, just ignore all those advices and use a proper recovery software like this one: http://shop.sandisk.com/store/sdiskus/en_US/DisplayCategoryProductListPage/ThemeID.9295600/parentCategoryID.57159900/categoryID.57160000 If it's hardware related, not much you can do now, it's a lesson you've learnt, always BACK UP your importand data, use Cubby, Dropbox, iCloud if you're using Apple devices etc Edited July 24, 2015 by octet@TORQEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargara Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 What phone are you using that doesn't auto-sync its camera to the cloud @OP? Just curious because it seems a pretty standard feature on all recent handsets now. (unless of course its .... those... type of photos that you don't want sync'd ) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I never auto sync my data to the cloud. I trust myself to do it properly, rather than some software deciding to go tits-up at the wrong moment. At least I only have myself to blame then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 What phone are you using that doesn't auto-sync its camera to the cloud @OP? Just curious because it seems a pretty standard feature on all recent handsets now. (unless of course its .... those... type of photos that you don't want sync'd ) I sync all my pr0n photos into iCloud, Apple knows every single aspect of my life anyway, they better know my sizes too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sargara Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 What phone are you using that doesn't auto-sync its camera to the cloud @OP? Just curious because it seems a pretty standard feature on all recent handsets now. (unless of course its .... those... type of photos that you don't want sync'd ) I sync all my pr0n photos into iCloud, Apple knows every single aspect of my life anyway, they better know my sizes too Haha at least you'll get accurate suggestions/ads based on your "tastes" now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Need to share with Google too for more accurate suggestions, but I hate Android Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I never auto sync my data to the cloud. I trust myself to do it properly, rather than some software deciding to go tits-up at the wrong moment. At least I only have myself to blame then! You don't use software to do it "properly"? How do you move the ones and zeros? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilogikal1 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 You don't use software to do it "properly"? How do you move the ones and zeros? With his abacus, obviously. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 :p 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I cannot recommend NAS drives enough for backups; you can get huge amounts of storage space for sub £100, I have 3 2TB NAS drives on my private network, one for media streaming, one for data storage and one purely for backups; the whole setup cost me about £300 a couple of years ago but I cannot fault them! I admit I went slightly overdrive with 3 separate NAS's but I work with implementing a lot of redundancy for commercial enterprises and it's something I've got so used to doing that it's almost second nature. Oh, ALWAYS keep your install disks for Windows/Mac OS because if something goes drastically wrong, they are the easiest way to fix the problem. PM me for any help IT related, I'm more than happy to help 😊 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'm slightly confuzzled. You say you went overboard with 3 NAS "drives" however you've listed 3 different purposes for each one albeit one of those is a backup device. Your wording seems to suggest a single 2tb spindle per use. I may be being nitpicky with your wording but I'd like to see RAID 1 and not just a single spindle for your backup and then at least a second asynchronous off premise copy...... then maybe you were getting close to being overboard BTW I'm far too flippant with my own data at times but we won't get into that Advice for any of you who do back up your data... Try recovering once in a while, you can become far too complacent with your backups Good luck OP I can't give advice for memory card recovery as I don't really have any experience there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masa Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I cannot recommend NAS drives enough for backups; you can get huge amounts of storage space for sub £100, I have 3 2TB NAS drives on my private network, one for media streaming, one for data storage and one purely for backups; the whole setup cost me about £300 a couple of years ago but I cannot fault them! I admit I went slightly overdrive with 3 separate NAS's but I work with implementing a lot of redundancy for commercial enterprises and it's something I've got so used to doing that it's almost second nature. Oh, ALWAYS keep your install disks for Windows/Mac OS because if something goes drastically wrong, they are the easiest way to fix the problem. PM me for any help IT related, I'm more than happy to help 😊 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I'm slightly confuzzled. You say you went overboard with 3 NAS "drives" however you've listed 3 different purposes for each one albeit one of those is a backup device. Your wording seems to suggest a single 2tb spindle per use. I may be being nitpicky with your wording but I'd like to see RAID 1 and not just a single spindle for your backup and then at least a second asynchronous off premise copy...... then maybe you were getting close to being overboard BTW I'm far too flippant with my own data at times but we won't get into that Advice for any of you who do back up your data... Try recovering once in a while, you can become far too complacent with your backups Good luck OP I can't give advice for memory card recovery as I don't really have any experience there. You're right, my wording isn't great; I have 3 separate NAS 'boxes', each with two 2TB hard drives in RAID 1, so there's only 2TB of usable storage per box. In total I have six 2TB hard drives in 3 separate enclosures. Hope that clears it up? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fodder Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Now get an offsite and you will be there...... Nice solution joking apart. I'm just conscious of wording... Used to having to spell things out to avoid ambiguity. Especially in written form. Oh and £300 even today for that is pretty good going. May be of use if you list what NAS boxes and drives you use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masa Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I'll add links and prices the next time I'm on my PC! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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