Recovering files from formatted SD card in Casio

It was in a Casio digital camera - around 7 mp. I got to the format menu
and thought I had pressed CANCEL. Formatting started - there was no
warning. The worst part is is wasn't my camera.

I've tried the following:
PC inspector smart recovery
Photo Rescue PC
Flash Memory Toolkit
eImage Recover
Stellar Phoenix Digital Media Recovery
Recover My Files
Digi Photo Rec
Data Doctor Recovery Digital Pictures
Digital Camera Data Recovery
Memory Card Data Recovery
Data Doctor Recovery Digital Camera
Data Doctor Recovery Memory Card
Easy Recovery Professional

- with no success.

Some of them find a directory but no file show up.
"Graphing" the output with Photo Rescue PC gives solid black (whereas
another card which has been test formatted shows up as solid green).

Is there anything else I can try??? If the pics are irretrievably gone,
then why did the Casio Camera secure delete instead of doing a normal
format? and why did it not ask if I was sure I wanted to format?? I
thought safeguard was standard.

 

rainandsnow wrote:
> It was in a Casio digital camera - around 7 mp. I got to the format menu
> and thought I had pressed CANCEL. Formatting started - there was no
> warning.

Try restoration.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

Sander

 

Sander wrote:
> rainandsnow wrote:
>> It was in a Casio digital camera - around 7 mp. I got to the format
>> menu and thought I had pressed CANCEL. Formatting started - there was
>> no warning.
>
> Try restoration.
>
> http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html

Thanks for the suggestion, however it was in vain -
I've downloaded and run it with various options . . . the end result is
always "no files were found".

I'm also trying "File Scavenger" from that site . . .

just the same - " 0 file found"

 

Rob-L wrote:
> On Dec 22 2007 1:22 PM, rainandsnow wrote:
>
>
>> Is there anything else I can try???
>
> There is one thing you can try....
>
> Don't **** with cameras that aren't yours, especially when you don't know
> what you're doing.

I was sorting out a problem - the battery setting was wrong and that
meant the camera wasn't working. (wouldn't stay on using Alkaline
batteries with the battery setting at NiMh), Flicking through a familiar
and intuitive menu on a strange camera is fairly elementary and I've had
more than average experience of digital cameras/electronic devices. When
sorting out a problem there is always some risk. Normally the benefits
far outweigh the risks. It was extremely user unfriendly of the Casio
not to Format when an experienced operator was attempting to CANCEL, AND
to do so without going through a Yes/No check. Perhaps it was
misdesigned by a coarse rude bossy overbearing git like you.