Hi Crew, have a data recovery problem that I could really use some community knowledge about. I shot about 400gb of data on a 512 CFExpress Type B card, in a C300 MK3. After recording on Slot A, I meant to initialize the second card in Slot B, but inadvertently initialized Slot A instead. I immediately realized my mistake and removed the card and stored it safely to make sure now new data was put on it. I wasn't worried at the time as I feel like this has happened before in other cameras and I've been easily able to recover using consumer software like Data Rescue or Disk Drill. This time it didn't work. Nothing was working so I sent it off to a data recovery company who has been quick and friendly, but they are saying they see no trace of any data whatsoever on it.
"Unfortunately, after a deep scan we found that the card's unallocated space was filled with zeroes, and there weren't any traces of the previous data on the card. We do not know of any solutions that exist for recovering the data once the unallocated space is filled with zeroes."
I didn't think I would be in this position after such a simple mistake. I understood it to be that a card is essentially always full, and that initializing is just a way to tell it to start recording over what was previously there.
Does anyone know if the C300MK3 formats a card differently that other cameras? Initializing a 512 card takes less than 2 seconds so I find it hard to believe that the entire drive can be wiped so quickly and efficiently.
Please help if you know anything that could help! It's client footage so I'm not in a position to give up too easily. I need a solution. Cheers, Adam.
