Recover image data from corrupted memory card
07 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: corrupt memory card, recover deleted, recover image
Yesterday memory card of my camera got error. Whenever I am entering it to the camera it was saying not formatted format?
I got shocked! It was having the images which I will not get back again if I loose.
I entered the the memory card in the computer in windows it was detecting the card but was saying not formatted you need to format.
After searching in the net I got one software which retrieves the data lost in memory card. But it costs too much around $145. I thought gone I will not get the images back again.
After that I tried using linux. The memory card was in /dev but not getting mounted
.After searching around one hour I got one method to recover the data using linux. Though I had to make some changes in that method but it worked for me.
at first did a low level copy of the data into hard drive to a dat file.
dd if =/dev/sdb1 of=memcard.dat
then I got the whole data in memcard.dat
After that I extracted data from that dat file using formost which I got by doing
yum install foremost
then using for most
foremost -dva -t jpeg -o /pace/for/keeping/pictures -i memcard.dat
I got all the image files. Though all the video files also got splitted into jpg images.
It saved me from a tension 
