How do I recover pictures on a Sony Memory Card?

Is it possible to RECOVER lost pictures from a camera memory card?? (SD-Card)?

• My pictures were manually deleted from my Nikon camera three weeks ago. The camera has a removable memory card "SD-Card by SanDisk". The pictures were deleted one at a time (the card was not formatted)!! Is there any professional way to recover the pictures? Please Help...

• Answer:

  The memory cards used in digital still cameras, be that of Compact Flash (CF), SmartMedia (SM), MultiMediaCard (MMC) or Memory Stick (MS) variety, are generally quite reliable but they're not immune to Murphy's fifth Law. Unless the card has been physically damaged, dropped on the barbecue or fallen into a vat of acid there's a good chance that much of the data it contains will be recoverable, provided you don't do anything rash that is. To answer you specific question yes it can be recovered however coditions and outcome may vary and currently NO recovery softwares or hardware out there can do 100% or 99% data recovery for that matter. You could try searching around for professionals softwares or services to do it for you or you could try good old DIY. One of my favorite softwares are: "DataRescue" with an list of features below: Previews recoverable image files as thumbnails (it's optimized to work with JPEG, TIFF and other typical file formats), which it can build on the fly for files without thumbnails; Handles any card media (CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Sticks, IBM Microdrives etc.) as either a logical or physical device; It can recovers even after other recovery methods have corrupted the card. Find out more here: http://www.datarescue.com You could also try this: http://www.brothersoft.com/sandisk-sd-memory-card-data-recovery-115717.html