Memory sticks and Digital cameras

[Hal 2001]

A friend of mine called me yesterday saying he had by error erased some pictures from his digital camera (but had not replaced them with anything new), and asked if there was anyway they could be rescued.

I answered that I was almost sure it couldn't be done. It can be done with Harddrives because when you erase stuff on them you dont erase the actual magnetic information.

I am pretty sure that when you erase something laying on a memory stick you actuall erase the information and there is no possibilities for recovery.

But he sounded very sorry, so I would be glad to be proven wrong.

Any body knows if there is some minute chance of recovering those pictures?

Mss Hal

[KillerX]

It doesn't work for Memory Stick, but Lexar has Image Rescue for Compact Flash

http://www.digitalfilm.com/digitalacc/rescue.html

It may not be what you are looking for, but it appears there may be hope.

[RCNelson]

Searching Google for "data recovery" AND "Memory stick", I found:
http://www.datarecovery-europe.com/presse/01_09_01.htm

[Hal 2001]

Hey thanks I will try that. That will save his day.

I love to be wrong ;)


Mss Hal