Invisible Files (SD Card) My bloody stupid SD card has decided to wipe all the files when transferring it from my printer to the phone. The thing is though that the files are still there. It's hard to explain but hopefully the pictures will help. This first picture says that the SD card (Drive G) has 145 Meg of data on it which is what should be on it. But when you enter the folders they are all empty and the PC says taht there is only a few KB on the card. How can looking at the drive name (card name) say there's 145meg of data yet looking inside the drive (SD Card) say it's empty? I'm really pissed off now because I had about 60 odd pictures on thatcard for a feature on Junk shops plus some games and about 20 ring tones that I have only just made tonight. Is there anyway to get the data back? Yakumo
sounds like a job for file recovery tools to me. there are plenty out there, but unfortunately, i cant give any recommendations, i never used one myself, sorry.
Actually, you are pretty fortunate in that, the filename was flagged as deleted, but the cluster chain was never dealloccated. In the event that it is a FAT filesystem, all you would need to do is change the filename entry's first letter from a ? to anything else. I can helpw with this. If it is NTFS, I can not help you.
I've just ran File Scavenger 3.0 which has managed to fine the picture files and some MP3 files which I didn't know were on there. I have a feeling that the MP3s are actually the MP4 movies though. I'm still missing the games data though so I'll try to change the filename entry's first letter like you said. how do I do that? Just type in a new on on the properties screen? Yakumo
Uh... don't do the file rename thing by hand... It's not worth it. You would have to hex edit the raw data on the drive, find the missing items then hex edit the first character to the appropriate character. 9 out of 10 times you'll just ruin the data. Try this, i've used this before on cards that File Scavenger couldn't recover. http://www.filerecoverytools.com/products/fr_sd/ My boss went to Japan a year back and took one of those old cameras that saved to a floppy disk. When he got back, all of the disks were corrupt. I used a tool from this same company to recover the pics. Unfortunately the dumbass still uses that camera.
