Subject: Sharing my experience of using PhotoRec data recovery software
on Fedora Workstation 33 Linux
Our photography group of 2 photographers had a photo shoot session with
a super pretty model at Orchard Gateway, Singapore on 2nd Jan 2021
Saturday at 5 pm.
After the photo shoot, which lasted 2 hours, I went home and proceeded
to transfer the photos and 4K videos to my home Windows 10 desktop
computer.
To my horror, my SD card became corrupted after I keep encountering I/O
error trying to copy a MP4 file. After trying to repair the corrupted SD
card using chkdsk, my SD card became empty. There are no photos and
videos inside my SD card at all!
Shocked, I hurriedly bought EaseUS data recovery software (1 month
subscription) for about SGD$100. But the software did not work.
Recovered photos cannot be viewed.
Recovered 4K videos cannot be played back.
I have wasted SGD$100 on an useless piece of software.
As it was getting late, I gave up trying to recover my photos and videos
at 10.30 pm and went back to my hostel.
At the hostel, I used the free PhotoRec data recovery software on my
Fedora Workstation 33 Linux on my refurbished HP Elitebook 840 G1
laptop.
I only managed to recover the photos. Recovered videos (with .MOV
extension) are not playable. I have followed the advice for recovering
lost videos from a memory card using PhotoRec at
https://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.pdf Basically I have to enable the
following option:
mov/mdat Recover mdat atom as a separate file
But that didn't work out.
This morning (3 Jan 2021 Sunday) I went to Sim Lim Square, Singapore to
buy a new Transcend USB 3.1 Gen 1 card reader for SGD$29, fearing that
my old card reader was damaged. Plugging in a memory card into a damaged
card reader could damage or corrupt your memory card.
After the purchase, I hurried home by Grab and eagerly used the free ZAR
X data recovery software.
Like PhotoRec, I was only able to recover the photos and not the videos.
The recovered videos, with extension .MOV, are not playable.
Just when I was about to give up in despair, I thought of using the free
Recuva data recovery software, which I saw it being mentioned last
night.
To my surprise, Recuva successfully recovered ALL of my photos and 4K
videos on the damaged/corrupted SD card. Recovered and playable 4K
videos have the extension .MP4. The good thing about Recuva is it did
not mangle the file names of the recovered photos and 4K videos like
PhotoRec and ZAR X. On top of that, Recuva is free software. I did not
have to pay a single cent. Kudos to the developers of Recuva.
I was relieved and very happy.
Now I want to ask EaseUS for refund since their data recovery software
don't work.
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming, 42 years old as of 3rd January 2021
Sunday, is a TARGETED INDIVIDUAL living in Singapore. He is an IT
Consultant with a System Integrator (SI)/computer firm in Singapore. He
is an IT enthusiast.
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