rkkwan

mercy - If you have not used the card to shoot pictures since you reformat, you may still be able to recover the files.

i_am_kane

rkkwan's advice about not using the reformatted memory card is right on the money.

The Kingston Technology technician asked me if I continued to take photos after I discovered what I had done. I told him that I shut the camera off and never turned it on again.

He said that was the best thing I could have done because the recovery process would have been more difficult, if I had continued taking pictures.

atravelynn

aj,

How wonderful you recovered everything. All the helpful information on here may assist others if a similar fate ever strikes.

lydialikestotravel

I downloaded Stellar Photo Recovery from
http://tinyurl.com/2y3fmp You can download for either PC or MAC a trial version. The full version is about $40 and they have 24 hour toll-free tech support.

I have used it once and it worked like a charm.

blightyboy

Any idea how it became corrupt, was it through the security scan?

mercy

Just an Up-Date: After spending some time researching the various recovery programs available on the Net, and talking to others and reading comments here, I decided to take the SD card in to the camera store where I'd gotten the camera and do some of my developing. For $35 (which I thought was reasonable under the circumstances), at least 95% (as far as I can tell) of my 336 pictures were recovered. Price also included the 14 index cards with the thumbprints and the CD.

Maybe someday, I'd purchase a program, but I hope that I never have the "opportunity" to do it in the future. Thanks for all the advice.

After the fact, I noticed today on the pkg. for my 512 card, that SanDisk does have an 800# and will do recovery at a discount price. And you can also purchase their RescuePRO software. Ciao!!mhm