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Can anyone explain how I recovered 22GB of data off an 8GB flash disk?
8GB SanDisk SDHC I (also has a letter "C" with a 6 in it)
A good customer calls the other day: "I just got back from a trip and was going over my photos and I accidentally deleted all my photos from my camera! Can you get them back?" I asked her not to turn the camera on again and to remove the flash drive and drop it off so I can attempt the data recovery.
So I take a look at it and sure enough the flash drive is empty (3 empty root folders). So I run a Deep Scan with EaseUS Data Recovery and it shows 22GB of data is recoverable and I'm thinking "that's weird" so I click "Recover" to save it to one of my raid banks and walk away. When it gets done - sure enough - there's 22GB of photos and they are all good except a couple! I say they are "good" but I only looked at the thumbnails and then opened each folder and browsed through all the photos very quickly using Windows 7 Photo Viewer. I also ran a duplicate file check using CCleaner for files size, name, date, and there are no dupes.
Explorer shows the format of the flash disk is FAT32 and has 7.39GB total space. Disk Management shows the same.
Now I am not the fastest knife in the drawer ... but can anyone explain how I recovered 22GB of data off an 8GB flash disk?
8GB SanDisk SDHC I (also has a letter "C" with a 6 in it)
A good customer calls the other day: "I just got back from a trip and was going over my photos and I accidentally deleted all my photos from my camera! Can you get them back?" I asked her not to turn the camera on again and to remove the flash drive and drop it off so I can attempt the data recovery.
So I take a look at it and sure enough the flash drive is empty (3 empty root folders). So I run a Deep Scan with EaseUS Data Recovery and it shows 22GB of data is recoverable and I'm thinking "that's weird" so I click "Recover" to save it to one of my raid banks and walk away. When it gets done - sure enough - there's 22GB of photos and they are all good except a couple! I say they are "good" but I only looked at the thumbnails and then opened each folder and browsed through all the photos very quickly using Windows 7 Photo Viewer. I also ran a duplicate file check using CCleaner for files size, name, date, and there are no dupes.
Explorer shows the format of the flash disk is FAT32 and has 7.39GB total space. Disk Management shows the same.
Now I am not the fastest knife in the drawer ... but can anyone explain how I recovered 22GB of data off an 8GB flash disk?
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