For any data recovery experts out there...

[Ted]

yup i did the dd first too. until i found the share ware, i was going to 
scan the bytes for jpg headers and try to get bytes back to jpg's.
since it likely did a quick-format, most of the bytes of the pictures 
are on there, and most likely sequential.
I actually looked at the raw bytes in a program and saw the jpg images, 
but saw breaks in the data, probably disk blocks,
but then i googled, found that program, and it did its thing. Email me 
if you don't have luck find program, and i can see if i still have it,
it was 2 years ago, so its not fresh in my mind.
When you do dd, look at the bytes with od (or similar), make sure its 
not a 0's or some identical patterned  data, i.e. 0x80, or whatever,
that means it did a full format, then your SOL.

-tl

On 08/30/2011 11:17 PM, Digimer wrote:
> On 08/30/2011 11:14 PM, Lance F. Squire wrote:
>> Ted wrote:
>>> exact same thing happened to me! i downloaded a free ware program that
>>> scans disk for files, i think it was one of those undelete programs,
>>> i got back 80%+.
>>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> I'll have to try that.
>>
>> Lance
> Before you do, mount it under linux (or at least until it's seen by
> fdisk) and then 'dd' the data to a file on your machine. This way, if
> the shareware cacks out, you can try again.
>

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