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Sd card recovery

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feihlination
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yowat?

so i have this sd-card with footage on it. its 16GB, and prolly 3/4 filled. i can watch the 20+ clips on the cam (pov vio), so they have to be intact.

but whenever i put the card into a computer, or connect to the cam with a cable, there is only 1 file of unknown size, and it has weird symbols in it (like chinese symbols, inverted and superscript "L"s). i cant open it with anything. the problem occurs accross different computers.

so i tried to recover the data with various programs. but i cant really get it going.

so far, i made an image of the sd card with "usbit", because i read thats smart so you can fuck around with it, without effectively altering the original data. then i mounted that image into daemon tools and tried to use "testdisk" to recover the data. but so far with no success, and i am not even sure if testdisk is the right choice.

so my question is, has anyone ever recovered data in a similar situation, and if so, which programs did you use? obviously googling is the bomb, but i dont know enough about data storage/indices and so on to know if i actually use the correct tools. (like the data isnt destroyed/lost when talking about the camera operating system)
12 years ago
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HWW
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• go to põlice office
• tell the põlice that you think there is footage of criminal activity on the sd card
• have them recover it for you
• ???
• now leave
12 years ago
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feihlination
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not extremely dumb. not overly funny, but i lold a bit.

5/10 would bang again
12 years ago
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HWW
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i tried. sorry i can't actually help... i've had the same problem apart from that it works when i plug my camera directly into my computer by cable.
12 years ago
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RoofDaRoofieDogg
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Delete system 32
12 years ago
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howlongcanausern
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are you on a windows or linux/mac?
12 years ago
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feihlination
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i tried it with multiple windows and am currently trying to resolve it with a windows laptop. i am actually now asking one of my friends with a mac, or might even download knoppix, because as i wrote the bit with how the camera OS can apparently still read the indices, it might be worth a try
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chemline.dorno
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Use advanced and user-friendly SD card data recovery application to recover accidentally formatted or deleted data. I have used Kernel for Windows Data Recovery software and i would like to suggest, you can also use it to perfectly recover files. Go to http://www.digital.camerarecovery.org/
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raymondcabral
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How important is the footage? I'm sure formatting it would help.
11 years ago
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feihlination
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if anybody has the same problem, try to recover it with linux. i was finally able to access the data.

so, if you have some kind of digital camera where you can clearly see that the footage is still recognized by the camera (like you can see that the gopro identifies X clips or so), but you only see horseshit on the PC, get a linux live cd and copy the files.

as a friend of mine put it, the OS of the camera "is more linux than windows" and apparently there was some kind of data formatting issue that couldnt be solved with windows.
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