[Q] Micro SD card has many pics, except for the ones taken the last day it was used topic

Hello all,

I have a problem with very important lost pictures on the SD card of my Samsung Galaxy S4.
Here's what happened...

I went out for New Year Eve, had a wonderful time and took many pictures. Upon reviewing my pictures, I noticed that about half of my pics were showing a blank icon with a lightning bolt in the top center. I was very upset about this, but said to myself "well, at least I have half of my pictures".

Then I took the SD card out of my phone and put it into a card reader and plugged it into my Windows 7 computer.
Upon doing so, I got the message ".......Scan and Fix (recommended) with the option to continue or cancel. I chose continue and all my pictures were deleted from New Years Eve.

I downloaded and tried 12 different data recovery software and it only found files that I had already copied over; no files from New Years Eve .

I read somewhere that there might be a place where the pictures may be in a hidden file system area under a different file extension and that all I had to do was change the file extension and I would get my pictures back.

Well, after a thorough search, I came up with no files.

I also tried to look for CHK files in order to change the extension, but; much to my disappointment, no CHK files were visibly present.

I have read about dirty bit, hidden partitions, chkdsk, clusters and more; some of which I am not knowledgeable enough to use.

This is a 64GB san disk card that was plugged into my Samsung Galaxy S4.


Thanks much,

duugg