help needed with Micro SD memory card & Nokia N95

[rosscoboy]

I have a Nokia N95 and unfortunately files I had on my memory card vanished over night however they were still using up memory on the card.

I used software called "CardRecovery" which managed to find all of the files I needed so I proceeded to save the files which included jpeg's and also video files.

However when I opened up the jpeg's they are alot smaller compared to the other images I have taken with my Nokia and the video files dont seem to open up either. I havent formatted the card or anything I only took several pictures after the others were lost and below I have gave details of how the images compare. Normal photos are the ones that are showing up fine and taken after the other ones vanished.


Normal Photos using N95 ------------------- Recovered photos using N95
WIDTH : 2592 pixels ------------------------ WIDTH : 170 pixels
HEIGHT : 1944 pixels ----------------------- HEIGHT : 128 pixels
HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION : 300dpi ---- HORIZONTAL RES : 96dpi
VERTICAL RESOLUTION : 300dpi -------- VERTICAL RES. : 96dpi

anyone know how to sort this as I'm desperate to get the images and video files back to the way they once were as they were from a recent holiday.

Thanks

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Could you please try as described here

http://www.z-a-recovery.com/unformat-tutorial.htm

and see if the process completes successfully and if the resulting images are in better condition?

[rosscoboy]

Just followed the tutorial and I have managed to recover 5 out of around 15 photos that I can view fine, the rest did not appear to show up on the scan at the higher resolution

Videos also showed up in the scan although when I chose to save them they haven't worked properly are each of their file size is only around 14kb when it should be around 20mb +

any suggestions as to how to recover the rest?

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Basically there are two different methods you can try

data-based recovery (only using file headers) (http://www.z-a-recovery.com/demo-ir.htm)
and
volume unformat (using filesystem information) (http://www.z-a-recovery.com/unformat-tutorial.htm)

which complement each other.
try the other one and if the result is still unsatisfactory, there is nothing else I can suggest to improve the result.

[rosscoboy]

tried both but still the same :(

do you know of any companies that could possibly manually fix the problem?

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Unfortunately no, because everybody uses variations of the same technique.