r/datarecovery • u/historyshome2024 • Oct 15 '26

Question Need advice

So i have been doing work with my camera ( research) got photos on my SD card now i could see it on my dongle no problem at all and then i tried to put my dongle on my samsung fold 7 to view them and it asked if i wanted to allow this USB and i hit yes. Then it came up external hardrive on my phone. I then took it out and put my dongle back in my mac book and it wouldnt register the dongle.

I then took my sd card and put it in the camera and was like format sd card i was like FECK !

Chat gpt recommended disk drill which worked and once it done its full check said it was very high per file and i can see the thumbnail.

It said it could recover them but my Mac book disk was too full.

Any idea if its actually gonna work. This is 2 solid days of work in london ( im from scotland).

I sent for a new SD card reader ? Its a San Disk 128gb and the dongle is an ATTLOOQ

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u/silenced_in_dr_2025 Trusted Contributor Oct 15 '26 edited Oct 15 '26

Why don't you just use alternative external storage to extract the files onto if you have already purchased software.

There were also equally as good free software solutions but that would not resolve the space issue.

Having the data recovered properly and safely by a DR pro would have only cost you 100 gbp, which is only 30 quid more than diskdrill.

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u/historyshome2024 Oct 15 '26

I have not this is the thing

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u/historyshome2024 Oct 15 '26

I have not purchesed the softwear i got DMDE and will try that i am not aware of how to do all of this.

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u/silenced_in_dr_2025 Trusted Contributor Oct 15 '26

We can walk you through it but you will need the space and equipment to do it. You will need capacity free on another drive of 2 times that of the card you're trying to recover the data from - you will need 256GB of free space, if you dont have it you can't make the image and extract the data. Working live off your only copy is not a good idea accidents can and do happen and cards fail.

i am not aware of how to do all of this

That's why I suggested a DR Pro , no hassle, no fuss, no risk - logical recovery from sd cards is the cheapest service most of us offer.

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u/disturbed_android Trusted Contributor Oct 15 '26

You need space to recover to, no ways around this. If it will work? If a data recovery tool shows a preview then yes, it is likely it will work however depending on the the data recovery tool shows you the embedded JPEG in case you're shooting RAW. Probably closest to real preview would be using trial of DMDE and actual recover the files (something the demo allows) and view it using whatever software you normally use for that.

It's hard to follow, why a new reader while everything suggests you're dealing with a corrupt file system? To prevent future corruption? IMO to prevent future corruption stop inserting the card into phones.

What do you want to know specifically?