Can i restore deleted pictures from 6 months ago off of a micro sd memory card.?


Question by fittedfrsh: Can i restore deleted pictures from 6 months ago off of a micro sd memory card.?
So i have a 2GB digital media SD memory card and i am wondering can i possibly restore deleted memory from months earlier. I used some data restoration programs but they are only allowing me to restore pictures that were deleted within the last month. So can someone tell me if it is at all possible if i can someone recover pictures from the memory card that was deleted months earlier. And if so can u give me the link to the website and how to go about doing it. Please and thank you.

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Answer by Mutual Aid
No chance, they have likely been overwritten months ago. THe card uses the space there and if you mark it for deletion, it goes eventually.

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  1. VistaHacker says:

    If you saved anything else to it, then they are probably gone.
    When you delete something, the computer removes the path to it- it doesn’t remove the picture, document ect.
    When you save something else to the drive, it takes up the space where the other picture was. Now the old picture is gone, or at least as much of its space as the new one took up.
    Programs that retrieve these can look at files without needing the paths that the computer uses to find them. But if another picture is there now, then they can’t find them because they aren’t there anymore.
    So the reason that your programs can only find month old pictures is because these pictures were put on top of the older ones. Two things can’t occupy the same space so the old picture, or at least part of it, was permanently deleted. In this case, sorry.
    Hope this helped. :-)

  2. Brian B says:

    Absolutely not. Once you delete the media it is gone for good.

  3. Paul Linh Nguyen says:

    As everyone else is pretty much saying, the files you are trying to restore are pretty much gone.

    As you found out the hard way, recovery of deleted files only work if they were recently deleted AND you had not saved new files onto the card after the fact.

    That is….after deleting the file…it still has a chance for recovery. However, the more you start writing NEW files to the memory card, the chances that the new file will be written atop portions of the old file rise.

    The moment new files begin writing over the space where your old files used to reside, it renders your old file irretrievable. =

    So recapping….no…it is not possible to restore your deleted pictures from 6 months ago…especially since you have used that same memory card and effectively written over it.

  4. wispa says:

    If deleted pictures are not overwritten by new pictures, then yes, you can recover them. If they are already over written by new pictures, then you are not able to delete them.

    Any where, try this to see whether you can get your pictures back.
    1. Connect your card to computer using a card reader, if your computer has a card reader slot, plug it in. You should see memory card shown as a drive letter (like H:) in your Explorer.
    2. Download recovery software, recommended one is asoftech photo recovery (simply because i was using it and it worked)
    http://www.asoftech.com/apr/
    3. Install and open asoftech photo recovery, select your memory drive, and click recover button.

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