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[guyplus]

I've tried a couple of tools to no avail. I had some recordings on there that are vital to a relative's divorce proceedings and so I need to recover them. I only ran the tool once, so the SD card should've only had one format.

Can I recover the data even though the internal SD card will have to be used over USB?

Anyone have any recommendations of where I should start?

[snives]

No offense... but why would you store information like that on a volatile device that you were intentionally tampering with? If the data was 'deleted' you MIGHT be able to recover it as a standard delete only kills the header on a file. However, once the header is removed nothing prevents another file from being written to the same space. If the wiping method is a full format however, it would have 0'd every point making recovery require some insanely expensive hardware, very specialized skills, and luck.

You can try Recuva (by Piriform, makers of CCleaner), but don't get your hopes too high.

[guyplus]

No offense... but why would you store information like that on a volatile device that you were intentionally tampering with? If the data was 'deleted' you MIGHT be able to recover it as a standard delete only kills the header on a file. However, once the header is removed nothing prevents another file from being written to the same space. If the wiping method is a full format however, it would have 0'd every point making recovery require some insanely expensive hardware, very specialized skills, and luck.

You can try Recuva (by Piriform, makers of CCleaner), but don't get your hopes too high.

My phone was the only recording device I had in my pocket at the time. I'd used earlier versions of the tool before and have been flashing phones for the past two years without anything ever formatting an SD card. I feel bad enough already ...

Thanks for the recommendation. Sounds like I'm screwed though.

[MrFrankRazr]

I too experienced this issue. And, I too have been in this games for many of moons. All my TiBi went bye-bye. Other files too but not life altering. This should be looked into and added to the OP of the 1.51 thread.

[DonDraper]

if you want any chance of recovering it either turn the phone off now until you have a file recovery app that can possibly scan a mounted USB or external drive. Any app you install or the more you use your phone the more you increase the chance that something is going to write to that internal space.

[knghts50]

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always workd for me. do the long search

[PillClinton]

I had the same thing happen recently! Also happened to me when I used the .173 fastboot files, even though I thought I'd deleted all references to any wiping. Was able to recover my TiBu, ADW Ex, & SMS backups by restoring to a recent nandroid, backing the files up to SD card again, then copying them to my desktop. Still lost some stuff though, so i feel your pain. Good luck!

[guyplus]

According to mattlgroff, the tool just flashes an .IMG file to the sd card. That's not the same as formatting it, is it?

[Z32CM]

According to mattlgroff, the tool just flashes an .IMG file to the sd card. That's not the same as formatting it, is it?

No need for sarcasm, a simple answer is sufficient.

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[MrFrankRazr]

../../../public/style_images/light/snapback.pngguyplus, on 11 April 2012 - 10:46 AM, said:

According to mattlgroff, the tool just flashes an .IMG file to the sd card. That's not the same as formatting it, is it?

No need for sarcasm, a simple answer is sufficient.

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I believe this was a question..not a remark.

[Z32CM]

../../../public/style_images/light/snapback.pngguyplus, on 11 April 2012 - 10:46 AM, said:

According to mattlgroff, the tool just flashes an .IMG file to the sd card. That's not the same as formatting it, is it?


I believe this was a question..not a remark.

lol my bad... Don't mind me.

[guyplus]

My question was poorly worded.

To be more specific, when flashing an IMG file in fastboot, does the flash go through all the empty spaces in the partition and write zeros where there used to be data or does it just remove the headers? Since the process of flashing an 8GB partition over USB only takes seconds and not minutes through this method, it would lead me to believe that only the headers are overwritten and the data is still recoverable. However, I have zero experience in data recovery and I am not familiar enough with the flash command to know how thorough of a data wipe it does.

Can anyone confirm to me whether or not flashing an IMG in fastboot would be a full format or quick format?

[_base2]

My question was poorly worded.

To be more specific, when flashing an IMG file in fastboot, does the flash go through all the empty spaces in the partition and write zeros where there used to be data or does it just remove the headers? Since the process of flashing an 8GB partition over USB only takes seconds and not minutes through this method, it would lead me to believe that only the headers are overwritten and the data is still recoverable. However, I have zero experience in data recovery and I am not familiar enough with the flash command to know how thorough of a data wipe it does.

Can anyone confirm to me whether or not flashing an IMG in fastboot would be a full format or quick format?

I agree that the fact that it takes seconds to flash is likely representative of a quick format, not a zero-out or otherwise more secure format.

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[kaplac]

The OP for matt's 1.51 utility does say that the program will wipe the internal SD card when you flash .173.

As far as recovering data. You might be out of luck

[guyplus]

The OP for matt's 1.51 utility does say that the program will wipe the internal SD card when you flash .173.

As far as recovering data. You might be out of luck

This thread is the reason the OP has that warning now. You're welcome.