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Peppery: If you aren't scared of the command line, PhotoRec is very, very good. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
wallop: Did you use the deep scan option in recuva?
josephhinvest: I remember several years ago when a junior co-worker mistakenly re-partitioned a customer hard drive. We were able to recover all the customer's files. (I think we used Data Rescue for mac).
A fairly stressful afternoon!
Cheers,
Joseph
dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512Recovering the actual data is still going to be tricky, but this gives you a backup image to work with, and inspecting this image will help determine if there is any point trying to recover the data further. If the data is mostly zeros or compresses down really well then I would give up. If you can see lots of JPEG file markers in it, then it is worth persevering (e.g. the start of image marker is 0xFF, 0xD8)
nova: Hopefully she had the "Quick Format" option checked when she did it, otherwise there is not going to be much hope.
If you have linux, one thing worth doing is taking a low level copy of the USB stick, with a command something like this:dd if=/dev/sda of=/tmp/r1 bs=512Recovering the actual data is still going to be tricky, but this gives you a backup image to work with, and inspecting this image will help determine if there is any point trying to recover the data further. If the data is mostly zeros or compresses down really well then I would give up. If you can see lots of JPEG file markers in it, then it is worth persevering (e.g. the start of image marker is 0xFF, 0xD8)
Recovering the files is going to come down to having the right tools, and I don't have any experience with that, but this might help a little bit.
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