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gardenwife Newark, OH(Zone 5b) Jul 24, 2002

I just received the following on The Langa List, a techie newsletter that always has something useful in it. The following information is about a program which allows you to recover deleted files from Smartmedia, Memory Stick and CompactFlash. Useful stuff. :)

Source: http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2002/2002-07-22.htm#8

We've talked about how data can be recovered from "erased" hard drives; well, exactly the same principle holds for some other forms of memory, too, including the memory sticks used in some digital cameras and MP3 players:

Hi Fred: I accidentally erased a memory stick. It was full of pic's from my father's memorial service, including the scattering of his ashes on Sugar Mtn, NC- ending with the deck collapsing and 18 of our quests falling and getting injured! (...most of the injuries were not serious.) Anyway my husband in his excitement erased the stick thinking he had saved it to the PC. Well I was devastated to lose pictures to remember this event and only be left with the accident memories! Well I called photo places and looked at sites and found (on a google search) http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/ I down loaded the trial version and purchased a memory stick reader (which I did not need) and they all came back!!! All 97 of them plus what ever else was on there. I had to purchase the program in order to save them to my HD, but it was well worth the $29.00! It read it right off my camera. I thought you might like to pass it on the all digital camera users. --- Monica

Nice detective work, Monica! Most forms of computer memory emulate PC hard drives: "Erased" data often isn't really erased, but simply marked as unused space. The right software often can identify the original data, and restore it to full use.

Data that's not only been erased but also overwritten still usually can be recovered, although that takes far more elaborate and expensive tools. But recovering from simple "oops!" types of accidental file deletions usually isn't hard (or costly) at all.


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