Image Recovery From Damaged SD Card

Posted: April 14, 2014

Nothing is more dreadful than losing image files due to a damaged SD card. When this happens, don't panic. Using this simple technique, you may be able to recover lost image files from a damaged SD card.

Helen Bradley, writer for Digital Photography School, shares how to recover images from an SD card that has been damaged.

Recover Images from a Damaged SD Card

A friend turned up today with a curly question. She’d been using a SD card in her point and shoot camera for some time and now the card had stopped functioning. If she put it in her computer she was told to format the disk to use it – sensibly she didn’t do this. However, she was sure she’d lost the shots she’d taken on her recent vacation.

She took the card to a camera store and was quoted $25 to look at the card and then $15 for every 25 pictures recovered from it. Even though she only wanted the most recent images – some 30 or so – she’d have to pay for all the images they recovered. As she had over 1,000 images on the card – the math wasn’t pretty – over $600 to get her images. The shop owner explained the process was time consuming and complex – hence the cost.

For my friend, the thirty or so photos just didn’t justify the expense. Luckily she called by to ask if she should she simply put the disk in the trash or was there an alternative?

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