You will find this version of the software provides you with an executable named rcsetup153.exe. The software is also available from a number of other sources (I grabbed mine from the PC Pro magazine download site, because I’m a subscriber there). I’ve never been a fan of registry cleaners, so stick with the free version or take the professional version if you want to than the developers for saving your digital life.Īt the time of writing this the most recent version of the software is v published on the 8th Jun 2016. As the screenshot below shows, there are a number of versions of the software. It’s available at the piriform network via either the filehippo download platform or from piriform’s own website. Then it’s time to go to your PC and grab the Recuva software.

Shutdown the device with the SD card in and follow the manufacturer’s instructions to safely remove it. The first thing you need to do is not panic. Cutting a long story short I managed to rescue the files, but before I return the SD card to our daughter I though it was worth doing a short tutorial on the Recuva software, so that if you are in the same situation you may be able to avoid a family crisis. In the end I found the very-Yorkshire sounding “ Recuva” software from piriform (As we say in Yorkshire “Ay Lad, Do you wanna Recuva yer files ?”). These were all, naturally, not back up to a PC or the cloud, or anywhere. It would have been worth it – the most recent photos our daughter took are from a recent try to New York. Google wasn’t much help, as many of the top links were all trying to sell me a data-recovery service.

Now although I know that a “quick format” normally doesn’t destroy the files on an SD card (it just rips out the index of files) I must admit I’ve never had to recover a file from a formatted disk before. Silently I screamed to myself and tried to not look like a desperate father. A few days ago our daughter came downstairs and asked where all the pictures on her mobile phone had gone, and if this was anything to do with the fact she’d just “formatted” her SD card.

Recuva sd card