Recovering Sony ARW files from SD card
Posted: 17 Jan 2018, 14:32
I was shooting photos with a Sony A6500 with RAW + JPG settings. The raw files are .ARW extension and as you would expect, the JPG files are .JPG extension. After I shot several photos I used an adapter to connect the SD card to my phone's USB port so I could view some of the pictures. Usually this works fine, but my phone was prompting me with how to handle this device and somehow messed up the card. I assume the card's filesystem. When I then took the card out and put it in my computer, it says the card needs to be formatted and when I placed it in my camera, the camera didn't understand the format either and said it needed to be formatted. During this time, I did not do any additional writing to the card and didn't choose to reformat it.
I used photorec and the software was able to recover all the JPGs from the card, but I also want the .ARW raw files. I couldn't figure out how to get .ARW files off with photorec, but maybe I am just missing something. I did download Recuva and it saw all the .ARW files as you can see in the screenshot below, but when I recovered the files they were all corrupted/unable to open.
Any help getting the .ARW files would be much appreciated.
I used photorec and the software was able to recover all the JPGs from the card, but I also want the .ARW raw files. I couldn't figure out how to get .ARW files off with photorec, but maybe I am just missing something. I did download Recuva and it saw all the .ARW files as you can see in the screenshot below, but when I recovered the files they were all corrupted/unable to open.
Any help getting the .ARW files would be much appreciated.