Trying to Recover My Daughters Photos

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jontooth
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Joined: 20 Jun 2022, 14:01

Trying to Recover My Daughters Photos

#1 Post by jontooth »

Hi. I bought a kids digital camera for my 5yo daughter and she has been taking photos with it since Xmas.

She came up to me yesterday and said that she coulsdn't see her photos anymore, and she thought a message came saying the disk was full.

I took out the 32GB flashcard and stuck it in a windows PC and it said it needed to be formatted. I didn't format it.

I cleaned the connections but it still wouldn't read. Then I tried testdisk and it said "partition sector doesn't have the endmark 0xaa55".

I tried photorec and it ran through trying to recover but couldn't find anything at all - here is the report.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<dfxml xmloutputversion='1.0'>
<metadata
xmlns='http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Categ ... ensics_XML'
xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'
xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
<dc:type>Carve Report</dc:type>
</metadata>
<creator>
<package>PhotoRec</package>
<version>7.1</version>
<build_environment>
<compiler>GCC 6.4, Cygwin 2009.0</compiler>
<library name='libext2fs' version='1.43.1'/>
<library name='libewf' version='20140608'/>
<library name='libjpeg' version='libjpeg-turbo-1.5.0'/>
<library name='libntfs' version='10:0:0'/>
<library name='zlib' version='1.2.11'/>
</build_environment>
<execution_environment>
<os_sysname>Windows</os_sysname>
<os_release>Windows 8 (9200)</os_release>
<os_version>Windows 8 (9200)</os_version>
<host>DESKTOP-I0QF4UQ</host>
<arch>x86_64</arch>
<uid>197609</uid>
<start_time>2022-06-20T12:10:34+0100</start_time>
</execution_environment>
</creator>
<source>
<image_filename>/dev/sde</image_filename>
<sectorsize>512</sectorsize>
<device_model>Generic USB SD Reader</device_model>
<image_size>31666995200</image_size>
<volume>
<byte_runs>
<byte_run offset='0' img_offset='0' len='31666995200'/>
</byte_runs>
</volume>
</source>
<configuration>
</configuration>

Can anyone please help with this at all?

recuperation
Posts: 2720
Joined: 04 Jan 2019, 09:48
Location: Hannover, Deutschland (Germany, Allemagne)

Re: Trying to Recover My Daughters Photos

#2 Post by recuperation »

Please contact a professional recovery lab.

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