new images not found

[wlauridsen]

I ran the recovery on my picture card after I erased the pictures by accident and 114 images were found on the card (128 mb). The only problem is only 4 of the latest images were recovered. I haven't used the card since I erased it hoping the most recent images could be found. Why did I only get four out of the 20 new pictures I had on the card?

Previously to this I opened the pictures on my computer and only four of my new pictures showed on the computer even though 20 new pictures showed when I previewed on the camera. The computer showed several pictures I had already downloaded. Therefore I thought it was the wrong file and erased it. Then I realized I erased the whole card. Are the images overlapping so I only see the old ones from my card on the computer? Do I need to do something else to get more images to show?
Thanks

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Try this,

1. Start ZAR
2. On the first screen click "Advanced Configuration"
3. In "Common filesystem analysis" set "Cluster detection threshold" to 100%.
4. Click OK to close configuration,
5. Re-run

If this does not help, try "Recover simple volume" mode. Make sure "Recover both current and erased files" is set (bottom of the window") when prompted to select a mode.

[wlauridsen]

I tried both your suggestions. The first gave me the same results. The second produced more data recovered. The only problem is the data had problems. When I go to open the image it says, "can not open because a suitable graphics importer can not be found" Do you have any idea how I can decode these images to make them show up. I am sure the images I am looking for are hidden in one of these files.

[Alexey V. Gubin]

This happens if the images were fragmented on the card. For a fragmented image some first chunk of the image is recovered, but the rest of file is garbage (or contents of some other image). If this is the case, there is nothing we can do to improve results. This would be suspicios (altough not unheard of) if ALL the images come out bad. If so, please email a sample image and the log file to development@z-a-recovery.com. However, if there is about 10-20% of bad images, there is really nothing we can offer.