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I just accidentally quick formatted a micro SD card, with about 8 GB of pictures on it. I didn't know it was plugged in, and I meant to format something else. Worse, I copied 4 files onto it, totaling about 500MB - permanently destroying what was there.

It was FAT32, and was formatted to that.

How do I go about recovering whatever I can?

Justin
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  • Try [testdisk](https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk). It has worked for me in the past and is free. If it saves your a**.. I myself would consider donating something to the author. – Señor CMasMas Apr 15 '21 at 03:04
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    I ran Recuva. It recovered 540 files. At least that's something. So many pictures / videos were overwritten/unrecoverable. I will try testdisk tomorrow. Recuva only recovers files that aren't overwritten at all. Maybe some partials will be worth something. – Justin Apr 15 '21 at 03:18
  • Photorec did a much better job. I wonder why Google doesn't put Photorec higher is the results for data recovery. – Justin Apr 15 '21 at 17:14
  • By testdisk.. I knew you would look around and see photorec too. Google cares nothing for "better".. Recuva is a paid product and "somehow" gets higher results.. hrrmmm.. ;). BTW, the photorec/testdisk dude is an amazing programmer. – Señor CMasMas Apr 15 '21 at 17:31

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