Recovery of deleted images

minelab

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8 Nov 2012 - 7:49 PM

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I'm sure this must have cropped up on here many times before but here goes....
For the first time ever I have accidentally deleted all the images on a camera, actually my employers camera and two of the images are particularly important.....I know...I'm a donkey
I searched the internet for 'free' recovery software and downloaded two programs, both these programs successfully scanned the SD card and found all of the images I'd deleted, however when I came to restore the files, surprise surprise, I discovered you have to register and pay for the full version...fair enough I suppose but I didn't really want to spend £40 to get two photo's back...even though..get them back I must.
Question...does anybody know of an actual 'free' program that will do the job or does anybody know if somebody like PCWorld or Jessops offer a service to recover data, I know this won't be free but probably wouldn't be £40 either.
Any advice would be very welcome....thank you.

saxon_image

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8 Nov 2012 - 8:03 PM

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You could try Recuva from Piriform - free and from a safe software house. You can find others that are free and have been tested here.

Paul

BEVZED (e2 Member)

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8 Nov 2012 - 8:49 PM

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Z A R, a freebie that is really good. Recuva found 432 pix on 5 cards, zar found 2663 on the same cards!

Bridgelayer

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9 Nov 2012 - 5:11 PM

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I'll agree with BEVZED for ZAR. Good stuff at the right price.