I have a problem and maybe you can help me.
I recently downloaded all of my files from my SD card to my laptop. Something went wrong because the files could not be opened on the laptop. After I ran a recovery program on it, it turned out that the files had been overwritten somehow.
The fact is I don't have access to my data and I don't know how to get it back.
Now my question to you: does anyone know how to save / restore overwritten files that were previously on an SD card?
Lovely wishes
Ehm the word overwrite says it all. They are gone. They have been overwritten, so replaced by new data. It is impossible to restore them because they no longer exist.
Which SD card did you use?
Overwriting deletes and changes the saving, you lose it. Unless you try things.
One from Aldi, 32GB, which was included with the cell phone purchase (from Aldi)
What things?
You are using a card reader or other computer to get started.
Do you know how this can generally happen with overwriting or how you can prevent it? Just in general if something happens again…
Well I would have thought it would be a 1TB China card. Then the data will be overwritten because it is actually only 8GB.
The overwriting does not happen by itself. Data is overwritten if it is marked as deleted. If you delete data, then you mark the existing data as released. The SD card then says that the memory cells can be used again. If new data now comes, the old ones are simply overwritten. The lifespan is more than doubled.
Since you seem to be using a reputable, albeit cheap, card, I wonder how you know the data has been overwritten. Just because that was the program's error message?
Which program did you use?
I used Recuva… In Recuva's analysis report that came as a message
Ok, Recuva is actually trustworthy, then the data will really be gone. That is why it is important to make backups.
How old is the SD card?
So 1.5 to 2 years
That should still be fine. Make backups in the future. SD-Karen is the worst thing about data security. I also use thousands of SD cards but only with backups on the hard drive and cloud.
