Comments on: How to Recover Data from a Corrupt Memory Card or USB Drive

By: Mondi

Mondi — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:55:36 +0000

What if my card is scratched and is not recognized by my PC but recognized by my phone ( it recognizes that it is a corrupt card but cannot access it). I need to know if there is a way to access the card. I have a lot of pictures that hold special meaning to me that I cannot afford to lose.

By: rysan from phil.

rysan from phil. — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:27:12 +0000

thank you very much sir,…

By: rysan fro phil.

rysan fro phil. — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:26:16 +0000

thanks a lot sir,…

By: david

david — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:10:47 +0000

it is a brilliant thing i like it.

By: Koohiisan

Koohiisan — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:10:33 +0000

If it was mine, I’d cancel the checkdisk and run either the demo of GetDataBack or the FreeUndelete program I mentioned earlier. I’ve had great success with them.

Of course, if there is a fatal hardware issue (damaged memory chip, scratched platter, etc), then there’s not a lot a person can do on their own to retrieve whatever was in that area of the data storage. You should be able to recover other areas of data, tho.

GetDataBack: http://www.runtime.org/
FreeUndelete: http://www.officerecovery.com/

HTH!

By: VIJAYAKUMAR B R

VIJAYAKUMAR B R — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:41:10 +0000

I have a pen drive which is recognised as drive ‘e’. But following the system above I got the message drive cannot be locked will run the chkdsk when nexttime computer is run. I think my pen drive is trash.

By: Koohiisan

Koohiisan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:50:59 +0000

I’ve never used CheckDisk, as it always seemed to be intent on just truncating damaged files. I’ve lost so much data due to that silly program…at least this was back in Windows 2000.

Anyway, I used Runtime Software’s GetDataBack just this last year on a trip to salvage a whole memory card worth of photos that someone accidentally formatted. CheckDisk would not help with that at all. There’s also a decent program called FreeUndelete by a company called OfficeRecover, IIRC. GetDataBack costs $, but it is has been a super program for me. I definitely avoid CheckDisk like the plague, however…but maybe that’s just me.

As with all data-recovery, YMMV.

By: anand

anand — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 08:55:11 +0000

I lost all my photos from my last adventure trip. sadly I dint knew this trick existed.

By: ravindukelum

ravindukelum — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:11:44 +0000

I can see pendrive in My Computer and can not open…
After doing chkdisk with it(u:)…

C:\>chkdsk u: /r
Cannot open volume for direct access.

Any Ideas..

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:12:19 +0000

Sir, I am forever in your debt. I am a professor and I used this trick to recover my midterm exam. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Though my students would probably prefer the file disappeared into the ether.