topic Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Antala — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:14:33 GMT

How can I recover my photos after accidentally formatting the memory stick of my Canon EOS R6 Mark II

Hello! Faced with an unpleasant event . Accidentally formatted memory on the Canon EOS R6 Mark II camera.
And all my pictures are gone. After a little Google research, I realized that to recover your photos need special software. I even tried a few but did not achieve the desired result...
Does anyone know how to help me?

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Peter — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:27:04 GMT

They are gone if you have performed a low level format.

If you did a normal format you can use software like Recuva/Photorec.

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

rs-eos — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 13:34:04 GMT

Did you format both cards (assuming you equipped the camera with two cards and set it up to save images to both)?

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Antala — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:28:15 GMT

I tried to restore with these 2 free programs, but nothing found. Is there any good paid programme?

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

rs-eos — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:41:29 GMT

If these were once-in-a-lifetime photos, and you didn't perform a low-level format as Peter mentioned earlier, you can also seek out data recovery companies. It can end up being very expensive though.

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Peter — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:43:36 GMT

Did you with Photorec try the whole disc and in the next window choose Other? Also take a look under file option that your raw format, CR3, is checked.

Have you tried Disk Drill?

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

ebiggs1 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:32:54 GMT

A low-level format writes directly to the sectors. Every single bit is overwritten with zeroes and the SD is returned to its factory state. Consequently, any chance of low-level format data recovery vanishes once the low-level format is complete. There is no “true” low-level” data recovery app that can recover data from a completely low-level formatted SD. Sorry. 😣

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Antala — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:30:44 GMT

There was only one memorial card.

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Antala — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:31:46 GMT

Yeah, I tried that. It doesn't find anything.

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

ZEEEst — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:39:52 GMT

You can try Hetman Partition Recovery. It's a paid program, but you can scan your USB drive with the free version of the software. It will show you the files it can find for recovery. If the program finds your lost files (photos), then only then you buy the program and transfer the lost files.

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Peter — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:21:49 GMT

You never answered if you performed a low level format or not. If you are unsure you can just take a look in the menu. It will show you the previous setting.

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Antala — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 12:20:51 GMT

🙂

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

Peter — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:20:43 GMT

3870 x 2583 px? What kind of camera is that? Or is that crop mode or a smaller embedded JPEG? Don't you already have that recovered picture on your hard drive? It is all over the Internet.

https://pixabay.com/photos/woman-meadow-grass-flowers-spring-8310746/

Excuse me, but everything just looks strange. Both you and ZEEEst joined this community November 14. You have R6 II and no other recovery software worked for you. Then ZEEEst recommends a paid software that works immediately and it recovers a known picture from Internet with the wrong pixel dimensions for R6 II. In the print screen above it also says R6 and not R6 II. The image says Nikon D610.

Is this just a different way to promote Hetman Partition Recovery?

Re: EOS R6 Mark II how to recover photos after accidentally formatting card

shadowsports — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:24:37 GMT

This is looking like a spam post by an individual or parties looking to circumvent forum guidelines and promote a paid third party product.

Peter, you have provided the proof.

******** Removing my contributions to this thread. It appears to be spam promoting a paid third party product ****