Accidentally trashed SD card (OS X)

1 points by rangibaby 9y ago ↗ HN

I was tired and accidentally trashed an entire SD card. I didn't use secure delete and immediately ejected the card so I guess the files are still there. What do you suggest to recover them? Google leads to a lot of crapware.

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j_s 9y ago ↗

PhotoRec

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

helen842000 9y ago ↗

I've used Recuva successfully on SD cards several times. Be careful where you download it from so you don't get malware. Also during the installation process you'll probably need to untick the additional software options. I would probably run it directly from a USB drive.

brudgers 9y ago ↗

Short of outsourcing, long of free: SpinRite.

https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

This appears to be a transcript of Gibson chatting with Leo Laport and it describes using SpinRite on an SD Card:

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-358.txt

It also mentions that reading an SD card is not quite like reading a hard disk.

rangibaby 9y ago ↗

Thanks for the suggestions. Since the card was FAT32 I was able to install testdisk from brew and use that to recover all of the files. Phew.