Image Rescue help!

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Stupidly, I'd taken some good pictures of the family on my Sony HX90, and took the car out meeting to pop it in the Mac! I didn't get torn to it, and when I put it back in the Sony, it popped up saying initialse; Stupidly without thinking I accepted and it wiped it all!

I spent ages looking for the Sandisk Rescue Pro software I had free a few years ago, but can't locate it on any of the HD at all! I tried a trial version online but it didn't pull anything up.. I'm hoping agaisnt everything someone on here will have a solution for me? Any advice - or if anyone has a copy of Sandisk rescue pro serial code or activation code I can borrow (buy?) for this task it would be very very much appreciated!

Just to add, I'm using a MacBook Pro running the latest OS ; sadly none of the windows solution will work but thank you anyway! Fingers crossed this Rescue Pro works!!
 
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Sadly, to err is human

Sandisk include a code in every memory card box.................I am sure I have one somewhere, will PM to you asap.

Having said that in the past I have used https://www.z-a-recovery.com/tutorials/digital-image-recovery.aspx where Sandisk software failed to do a 100% job.

FWIW and maybe not good news ~ some years back a colleague had a similar issue with a Fuji camera, no problem I said! To discover that Fuji cards were not recoverable/restorable in any way with any software I could find :(

PS I have found these Sony page http://helpguide.sony.net/dsc/1510/v1/en/contents/TP0000576959.html and this one http://helpguide.sony.net/dsc/1510/v1/en/contents/TP0000576852.html :(:mad:
 
Box Brownie, thank you so much for your reply and very kind offer. Sadly those links don't look promising! Such a shame, I am such a muppet - I remember doing this about 10 years - 15 years ago with a Nikon d50 and the images were got back; I suppose things have changed and nowadays they make it much more secure when you make a mess up! But very kind of you, thank you so much!
 
Don't give up hope just yet; I'm reading those links to mean there's nothing you can do from within the camera to undo a format.
Third-party software may still be able to extract the data.
Good luck :)
 
Thanks Tori - touch wood! Annoyingly that software above is just for windows so can't progress! I will do some more searching online!
 
PM sent, sorry for the delay as had to type it I double checked so hopefully no typo's (was hoping to embed a picture of the voucher)

There is no expiry date on it so all being well still valid AOK
 
Box Brownie said:
PM sent, sorry for the delay as had to type it I double checked so hopefully no typo's (was hoping to embed a picture of the voucher)

There is no expiry date on it so all being well still valid AOK
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Thank you so much - I will be activating is shortly and running it - thank so much again, I really appreciate your help!
 
Sadly this hasn't worked! I really appreciate everyone's help but sadly I still ca't get them back. I am considering going to Currys to see what they will offer in terms of recovery service

Thanks everybody, and esp Box Brownie for your kindness.
 
Your only hope maybe to use a specialist company to recover the images. This may not be cheap. I've used a company in Stoke called data Wreck. They recovered 95% of images in a card that got completely screwed. They operate a No Data No Fee policy so if it doesn't work it wont cost you anything. I'd try these before Currys
 
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Your only hope maybe to use a specialist company to recover the images. This may not be cheap. I've used a company in Stoke called data Wreck. They recovered 95% of images in a card that got completely screwed. They operate a No Data No Fee policy so if it doesn't work it wont cost you anything. I'd try these before Currys
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Thanks you, for the tip will get in contact with them later today!
 
Recuva and photorec are two open source tools that might work.
 
stickytape said:
Stupidly, I'd taken some good pictures of the family on my Sony HX90, and took the car out meeting to pop it in the Mac! I didn't get torn to it, and when I put it back in the Sony, it popped up saying initialse; Stupidly without thinking I accepted and it wiped it all!

I spent ages looking for the Sandisk Rescue Pro software I had free a few years ago, but can't locate it on any of the HD at all! I tried a trial version online but it didn't pull anything up.. I'm hoping agaisnt everything someone on here will have a solution for me? Any advice - or if anyone has a copy of Sandisk rescue pro serial code or activation code I can borrow (buy?) for this task it would be very very much appreciated!

Just to add, I'm using a MacBook Pro running the latest OS ; sadly none of the windows solution will work but thank you anyway! Fingers crossed this Rescue Pro works!!
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I don't know the Sony - does it say 'initialise' every time you insert a camera into the card?
If not, it might indicate that the card was changed in some way in the Mac that made it unrecognisable to the Camera?

One possibility is (and I've been there) is it's not the same card. Are you sure the card you put back into the camera is the one with the photo's on and not a different card you've used for something else and your real card is actually sitting next to your computer safe and sound? You can get so emotionally hijacked by the loss / panic, and everything you do that fails just drives you deeper into the hole, that the solution is obvious? Had to be asked.

Secondly, if it is the same card, and initialise is only shown when the camera doesn't recognise the card, you may have doubled up on the problem (ie there was a problem with the card in the first place which caused it to be unreadable, and then you formatted it on top of that) - that might require some specialist help.

When you say you are getting nothing back, do you mean the card is unresponsive or it's detected etc, but no data coming back at all etc?
 
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