Help Needed again sd card

[hood777]

hi there, still new to all this and had some good advice. seemed to have lost all photos and videos of my son from my sd card. down loaded a program called stella photo recovery, and it got them all back. now they want me to pay ?40 in order to save photos and videos to my computer. downloaded a another program that was free. it got the photos back but the videos dont play. they are jpeg s , yet they play in the stella one.

any ideas please

[cgscott]

hi there, still new to all this and had some good advice. seemed to have lost all photos and videos of my son from my sd card. down loaded a program called stella photo recovery, and it got them all back. now they want me to pay ?40 in order to save photos and videos to my computer. downloaded a another program that was free. it got the photos back but the videos dont play. they are jpeg s , yet they play in the stella one.

any ideas please

If you have the videos back then try converting them or use another player?

Try vlc player.

[barrowmanandrew]

i'm no expert but are you sure the video's are jpegs?
float your curser over them and check how big the files are? If its a photo, file size will small say 200 to 400kb
If it a video, file size will be much larger, say 20-200 mb for short video clip.
if the image says jpeg its probably a photo.

also when you say video's not playing, do you mean.
you can hear audio, but no video,
or image opens just like your photo's and you get a still image, but no sound?

[hood777]

the image is the same as the ones that stella photo recovery found. there are about six of them. on that program i can play the video. in this new program the same video wont play , is just as if its the first frame , one photo. and next to it say s j peg.
as i single dad, i cant afford the ?40 to register the stella programe, and thus put all the images and vidoes back on my computer.
as at the moment it only allows me to view them on that stella programe.
when i used the other programe...think it was called..something like ..getyouback..it got all the same photos and vidoes back but the videos are just stills, and in windows media player,winamp, just come up as coloured lines on the screen.


any help please and a big thank you for so far

[cgscott]

I would suggest downloading another recovery program. Tihs looks as if it has recovered all files but only does them to JPEG file type.

There are a few out the and you will get one on trial that will allow you to use it for a certain amount of days.

Try this one

Memory Card Recovery Software to Recover Lost Photos - CardRecovery

[barrowmanandrew]

if your getting the lines that means the video is there, but your media player cant read it.
like cgscot says simply download vlc media player, its free you can get it here.
once you have installed it, either set vlc to your default player or,
right click video you ant to view
scroll to "open with"
click vlc player.
video should open in small window, which you can put to fullscreen....
you might get a message saying "codec is broken, do you wish vlc to repair"
if you do, i would copy file to another folder before doing this (just incase)

[altek]

Card Recovery seems to be best for recoverying lost data

[Canker_Canison]

There's also Disk Digger, someone here has posted a link to it...somewhere. It's free & recovers every deleted file on a drive. It should cover an SD card as well.

[hakimk]

thanks a lot