recover digital images

[aarecover]

Hello,

A friend of mine accidentally deleted all of my digital pictures, about 200 of them, from my camera, and took 20 of new pictures on the same memory card. My questions are:

1) Is it possible to recover my 200 pictures or 200-20=180 pictures?
2) Should I delete the newly taken 20 pictures, or leave it as it is and try the ZAR recovery?

I got some important pictures there and really want to recover them. Thanks a lot for your help!!!!!!

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Originally Posted by aarecover

1) Is it possible to recover my 200 pictures or 200-20=180 pictures?
2) Should I delete the newly taken 20 pictures, or leave it as it is and try the ZAR recovery?

1. Typically yes, slightly less than 180 pictures.
2. Does not matter. I suggest you leave them as they are.

[aarecover]

Hello Alexey,

Thank you for your previous answer.

I tried the ZAR to recover and left the disk as it was. However, it only recovered the newly taken 20 pictures which haven't been deleted from my camera yet. I don't see any of the old pictures which had been accidentally deleted. Have I done anything wrong? I simply download, run the ZAR. Selected the camera, selected Recover digital images, then clicked Next, Next... and the 20 pictures showed up. Any idea?
Thanks!!

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Tell me what the camera model is then?
Old model Fujis are known to delete data irreversibly, and also Canon (S1, S2 at least) are known to be irrecoverable if you format the card.

[aarecover]

My camera is Olympus C-50 Zoon. The memory card is 256MB, XD memory. It's either Olympus or Fuji brand of memory card. I need to double check the brand of the memory card tonight. Please tell me it can be recovered... praying.

Thanks a lot!!

[Alexey V. Gubin]

So that's what we do next

1. Delete the log file, C:\Program Files\ZAR\logfile.txt
2. Start ZAR. On the first screen click "Advanced Configuration".
3. In "General" tab, set "Logging" to "Extended logging (for debug purposes)".
4. In "Common filesystem analysis" tab, make sure "Cluster size detection, threshold" is set at 100%.
5. In "Image recovery" tab, set "End of file detection" to "None, leave as is"
6. Click OK to close configuration
7. Retry the run. If still no images, email the log file to development@z-a-recovery.com

[aarecover]

Alexey,

Thanks for the procedures. I've tried but it's still the same. I've forwarded the new logfile.txt to the email you mentioned above.

BTW, my memory card and the camera are both Olympus brand.

Thanks a lot for your help!

[Alexey V. Gubin]

Looking at the log, there are actually only 20 files on a card. The only explanation we came up with is that a card was formatted, and formatting destroys data irreversibly in your camera model.

[aarecover]

Originally Posted by Alexey V. Gubin

Looking at the log, there are actually only 20 files on a card. The only explanation we came up with is that a card was formatted, and formatting destroys data irreversibly in your camera model.

Thank you very much for looking into it!!