Corrupt .NEF files, How do I fix them?
Posted: 24 Jul 2014, 06:29
Hello,
So here's the situation. I accidentally reformatted my portable HD that contained all of my photographs, in particular my photos from a trip to the Galapagos Islands. All the files Im trying to recover are .nef, Nikon's RAW file format. I used a previous software, called Data Rescue 3, at the beginning. After it was completed, I looked at some files and they looked good. Prematurely, I put the recovered photos back onto my portable HD only to discover that some of the photos are corrupted. Therefore, the portable HD has been written over ONCE! After this discovery, I haven't touched my portable HD.
A friend referred me to this software but I am piss poor at understanding commands via Terminal on my MacBook Pro. I understand how to do a complete scan and so on but here's where I need your help.
1) Is there a way that this software will be able to look deeper, past the overwrite, to find the photos?
2) How do I use Data Carving to fix my .nef files? I need step by step instruction because the wiki was not very helpful in this process.
So here's the situation. I accidentally reformatted my portable HD that contained all of my photographs, in particular my photos from a trip to the Galapagos Islands. All the files Im trying to recover are .nef, Nikon's RAW file format. I used a previous software, called Data Rescue 3, at the beginning. After it was completed, I looked at some files and they looked good. Prematurely, I put the recovered photos back onto my portable HD only to discover that some of the photos are corrupted. Therefore, the portable HD has been written over ONCE! After this discovery, I haven't touched my portable HD.
A friend referred me to this software but I am piss poor at understanding commands via Terminal on my MacBook Pro. I understand how to do a complete scan and so on but here's where I need your help.
1) Is there a way that this software will be able to look deeper, past the overwrite, to find the photos?
2) How do I use Data Carving to fix my .nef files? I need step by step instruction because the wiki was not very helpful in this process.