hi, i stuffed up and accidently deleted videos of my son for the first 3 months of his life! whoops. what happend is i have a 16gb sdhc card for the video camera and just a 4gb for the camera. we ran out of room on the camera so i put the video memery card in the camera and started taking picturs. when i went to put the videos and photos from the 16gb card on my pc i uploaded it from the camera. i wasnt thinking and straight away formatted the card. when i went back to look at the videos they were not videos they were like a photo, it was like the first frame of the video and frozen to a picture. ive tryed a few photo recovery programs and i get all the photos and the first frame of the video back. when i say video its not one... its about 12. please help me!shauno

Hi Shauno, Thanks for the post! Since you have formatted the card, I’m afraid we cannot recover the video. Regards, MiyaThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. | Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

thanks for your help, also wondering if i can recover all my photos. i did a reinstall of windows and saved all my photos to my WD external hard drive. when i went to load the photos about half were missing after the install of windows 7. ive tryed a few photo recovery programs and go about a 1/4 of what went missing back. is there any way of getting more back or is that the best im ganna get?? shauno

Do you have a Windows.old directory? If so, all your old data should be there. Did you try the recovery programs on your flash card? Jerry

where would i find the windows.old file? and yeah i tryed the sd card and got every thing off that but the videos were not videos it was just a photo of the start of the video when i recovered the photos from the external hard drive i only got about a 1/4 of what was there and some are only half a photoshauno

If you did an install over your existing install (not an upgrade install), a windows.old directory will be created over your boot partition (usually C:\windows.old). This will contain your old windows directories including documents and pictures. Jerry

nah cant find anything.shauno

Sorry for a little bit late reply. I don't know if you have kept saving more data or taking more photos with the memory card. If you did, then chances of photo or video recovery will decrease. But in you case, I still suggestion you have a try of Photo Recovery, a program can recover deleted or formatted photos, videos and music well. Note: different recovery software may vary a lot on recovery capabilities. AND Remember – Do NOT try & write anything back untill you can retrieve your files safely! Best regards!