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My memory card was found yesterday, but I found the photos stored in it have gone, is it possible to restore them back? If so, how? Please recommend some affordable program and works for my memory card, thanks.

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Photorec

This software is part of the testdisk Install testdisk suite, specifically designed to recover images from a partially overwritten or otherwise damaged drive.

There is an extremely helpful step-by-step guide written by the makers of PhotoRec which I recommend you follow:

In case you have Ubuntu installed you can run PhotoRec in a terminal after installation of the TestDisk suite but you can also do so from a live system as further elaborated in my answer to the following questions:

We should try to recover our files from an image we created from the memory card by running the following command (see also this question) in a terminal:

sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=/home/<user>/<path>/rescue.dd

Replace sdX with the appropriate value for your memory card, and replace /<user>/<path>/ with your path for the rescued file. Be extra careful to get the command right, dd is an advanced tool!

We can then recover files from this image with:

photorec rescue.dd
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  • In addition to the $30 you will have to pay - vibosoft will not run on Ubuntu... – Takkat Jul 11 '13 at 08:09
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    testdisk resp. photorec (built-in in testdisk) is best solution you can have here suiting to your question ! – dschinn1001 Jul 11 '13 at 18:49
  • This is my personal experience; I accidentally deleted all 300+ pictures and was able to recover them. I was able to use the software to recover my pictures and I went ahead and paid for it too! Let me tell you, it was worth it! Those were the only pictures of my son's graduation and the small fee I didn't mind paying since someone bothered to write such a good piece of software that could save my memories! –  Jul 24 '13 at 06:56
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Deleted or lost files can sometimes be recovered from failed or formatted drives and partitions, CD-ROMs and memory cards using the free/libre software available in the Ubuntu repositories.

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