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Offer/Contract: After successful data recovery a contract offer will be sent to you. Payment practice: Payment only after you have inspected and are satisfied with the recovered image samples or file list. If all of the recovered files are not wanted or needed, then no charges will be made and the contract is void, no costs are incurred. Limitation of liability: Recoverfab will not be liable for the loss of or damage to your memory card and is only liable in cases of gross negligence or loss. Privacy: I will not share your personal data or the rescued data with any third party. Any saved files are deleted 30 days after order processing from my storage media.
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| I had a 16 GB SD card in my camera and suddenly it developed the same Memory Card Error as yours. It stopped working and I couldn’t access all my data in it. After fruitless attempts to get a place where I could retrieve my data, I called on Recoverfab http://recoverfab.com/ after a I thought I had lost two years worth of pictures, videos and family memories on my memory cards. It looked like my camera was creating ‘bugs’ that kept destroying every SD card I bought and used. No software kit could help me either as I had tried them all. It seemed the externals of the card had been damaged thus preventing any memory card reader to be able to recognize it. I had tried over 5 different data recovery companies without any success and thought it was a hopeless situation. I scoured furiously to find an company that could do the job. I had given up after consulting several with little or no success claim to help recover your data. I was in agony! I was getting ready to send it off to data recovery experts. I gave Recoverfab my cards as they also insisted they could provide a solution access the whole drive contents and retrieved 100% of the pictures and videos. Within a week my files were recovered allowing me to copy them off to another location. It was able to recover the data even though I had not found It recovered all of my data. Wow! Recoverfab is an excellent team! |
| Just a quick post to let anyone out there who has lost precious photo's from an SD card or similar device not to panic! Even if the card appears destroyed and unreadable in any device the pictures can be recovered. Recoverfab based in Germany run an amazing business at a very reasonable price compared to the vast majority of data recovery sites on the net. I lost over 400 photos during a recent trip to Asia when my Transcend 8GB Memory Card just stopped working, there one minute gone the next. Tried free software and even a data recovery specialist in Asia - no joy. Discovered Recoverfab on the Net and within a week of sending them my card they had recovered all the lost photo's, provided evidence prior to payment, and contacted me to let me know - they really are an amazing company!! highly recommended if you have a similar problem with fried SD cards. |
| Hello Ashley, I'm from Mexico and I had a similar problem with a Micro SD 8GB card, that I used on my digital camera, and it stopped working just after I got back from a trip to Europe and there were about 2000 photos on the card that I couldn't read or retrieve, I almost had a heart attack, but after spending 2 hours searching for a good recovery solution I found the link to a German site, http://recoverfab.com, specialized on data recovery from damaged memory cards, including SD, Micro SD, USB Flash Drives, etc. So I contacted them and they gave me their price list and discount options and then I sent them my Micro SD and after a couple weeks the got about 2200 photos from my card, I'm very satisfied and happy with the result. So I hope this will work for you, they are very professional, very fast and I think they are the best option out there. |
| Just a brief (and final) update on the issue: In the end I went for recoverfab. Apparently they focus on memory card recovery and don't do hard drives as far as I can see. Most of the companies I came across were the opposite. I shipped my broken card last Thursday, had the arrival confirmed on Friday and just now I found an email in my inbox with a link to 100 sample thumbs of my recovered images. Once payment is through, I can download my pictures via ftp – needless to say I'm overjoyed as I had not thought to see my images again. Should anyone have a physical fault with a memory card, I can really recommend the guys at recoverfab. Thanks again to you guys for your help (and dissections), take care! |
| Hi all! I would just like to let you know about a website which recovers photos from a damaged memory card in case anyone is in a similar situation as I was. I have just got back from a holiday, visiting Ireland, Paris and Bruges. I of course took many photos and then half way through my stay in Paris my camera said 'insert memory card'. I checked and the memory card was still in the camera, and didn't appear to have been damaged in any way. Once I got back I visited a camera shop in England, and they told me there was no way of recovering the photos because my computer wouldn't recognize the memory card when it was connected. However, I did some research and sent my card to a company in Germany called Recoverfab who can recover photos from damaged or unreadable memory cards, all for a very reasonable price! I now have all of my missing photos!!!!! I am so pleased and thank recoverfab for giving me back all of these memories! Anyone in a similar position - I definitely recommend this website!! |
| Hi, I saw your post and had to add my story here. I also had a very positive experience with Recoverfab. I was using a Sandisk Micro SD 8GB Memory Card in my phone. It contained all the photos of my two children from birth to present day (they're 3 and 2 respectively). I recently tried to access my gallery to view my pictures and got a message saying that I needed to input my SD card. I was needless to say, confused as my card was already inserted. I wouldn't be the most technically minded of people but I didn't panic at that stage. I turned off the phone and turned it on again and that didn't work. I then removed the SD card, cleaned the contacts and retried but that also didn't work. I was absolutely heart broken. I couldn't believe that I didn't have the foresight to back up my card (something I will do in future!). I tried the local photo store and they were unsuccessful at recovering any of the data. I was looking on the Internet in the meantime, and saw several positive reviews of Recoverfab in Germany. I had previously worked for an electronics company and knew by the owners background that his knowledge would be a huge help in trying to fix my problem. I contacted Recoverfab by email. I received a very prompt reply outlining the process to follow. I got my order number and sent off the damaged card in great hope that something could be done. I received an email confirmation when my card arrived and outlining a date of when to expect an update. I received an update promptly and was absolutely delighted that Recoverfab were able to recover all my data. They even sent me a preview of some of the photos that had been recovered. I am over the moon with the result and although it did cost a nice bit of money, it was worth every penny to get my children's photos returned to me. I found Recoverfab extremely professional to deal with and am very very happy with the end result. I would thoroughly recommend them! |
| I had a similar problem to rahuljagia13. Card would not mount. I tried a few free card recovery programs, but since the card would could not be found as a valid drive, the card recovery had no chance. I have used this same SD card for a while (16GB sandisk) and read that the controller sometimes goes bad. My only option apparently was to send to data recovery. Looked at some reviews of recoverfab.com. I was a little concerned about sending my card to Germany, but I did not see and other options with decent reviews for the same price in the US. Sent the card, they recovered about 400 photos and 100 videos from my card. I'll chalk that up to my penance for not offloading the pics like I should have! |
| I had pretty much the same thing happen recently. My first DSLR camera, a brand new Nikon 7K, with brand new SanDisk 16G card installed. While on a "trip of a lifetime" a week after I bought it, took over 1200 photos, plus video, and the card froze - just said "card error" on the camera. Called the photog shop where I purchased the camera, they said not to worry, they would read it when I got home. Took it in, the guy said he had never seen this before; they couldn't read it with any of their equipment. I was devastated. I searched the internet and, like Rashad, kept coming across Recoverfab, a company in Germany, in various forums and blogs. I contacted Recoverfab and they really were amazing. I mailed the card off to them from Canada, and within days I received an email showing 100 of my photos on it - I couldnt believe it. They informed me that they had recovered all of the data. They were an absolute pleasure to deal with, very professional, prompt, reasonably priced and best of all, successful. Sure, there are lots of free, do-it-yourself programs out there - I guess it depends how valuable your data is to you. |
| I wanted to share my expereince.....I bought a Duracell 16GB Cf card and used it for years without any problems until one day it failed on me. I had a full day wedding on it along with some other sessions from that day.I used a portable card reader to transfer it to my computer and during the upload process it stopped. I didn't do anything to make it stop. I have had this happen to me before and I have used a recovery program to recover my photos successfully. I thought this would be the case but it wasn't! The recovery software I used only recovered 400 photos and I had about 3000 on it. From that point on I knew that memory card was corrupted on the inside and I felt that all was lost. My camera asked me to format the card which I did not do and the computer didn't recognize the memory card....... I think I cried for about 2 days.But searching the internet I read many posts about this guy in Germany from Recoverfab who is very successful in recovering your photos. I was reluctant in shipping my card to Germany from Hawaii, but I put my faith in Leopold and shipped it off!!!! The service is excellent!!!!!! they emailed me when they received my package and gave me as estimated time that they would be done. They came back with my results earlier then the date he gave me and he recovered all my images :) he is my miracle man......I am so grateful and happy beyond words to Recoverfab. If you haven't used recoverfab you have not tried everything!!!!! They are the BEST@@ and I will definitely be referring a lot of photogs to them:) |
| I'll share my experience with a similar instance with an unrecognizable SD card that had about 500+ photos. I tried a few "soft" recovery methods fruitlessly and then found a data recovery service from Germany, Recoverfab. I sent the sd card via mail and they were able to recover these photos very quickly. A preview of your pics is posted on their website and once you are satisfied with the recovery, you follow up with a payment. All in all, very happy with the experience. Hope it helps you with your card. |
| Just want to share my experience here as well. My camera bag got wet while on a scuba diving trip. The camera (Sony Nex 5N) and SD card (32GB San Disk) got soaked. Based on past experience, I left them in rice to soak up the humidity for several days. Then I cleaned the contacts of the SD card. I looked online and tried software recovery such as ZAR and Rescue Pro. But nothing worked. I was desperate. I didn't want to loose my precious memories like this. Thus, I looked for recovery services. Based on the positive reviews, I chose Recoverfab, I was a little skeptical sending my SD card in, all the way to Germany. But when I saw 466 of my photos and 18 videos. I relaxed. i recommend giving them a try if you are at a wit's end like me. Worth the price. |
| I had almost the exact same problem with my 4gig micro SD card in my HTC One V. Everything seemed to be fine, then one day I got a notice on my phone saying "SD card removed unexpectedly". I figured, no problem, I’ll just take it out and put it back in, no big deal. But after several tries it appeared that wasn’t going to work. It was just never recognized. So I tried the card in my Mac, no dice. I tried it in my camera, and my laptop, nothing. It wouldn’t mount on anything. I was pretty upset, since that card had lots of pictures, videos and music on it that I was really desperate to keep (I’m talkin pictures of a recently deceased friend here). I took to the internet, and it seemed that other people who had the same issue had to send the disk out for professional recovery. Almost every single one of them swore by this company in Germany called recoverfab.com, so I sent them my disk. Within a day of getting the disk, they were able to post all of the contents, including a preview of the pics. They can be a bit pricey, but if your data means that much to you (like it did to me), it’s well worth it. I would definitely go with them. |
| We just lost over 1000 pictures from a family vacation. I was in despair when I realized that the SD card would not mount on the camera or with any reader I tried. I was certain that the pics were lost for good since every place I tried or software I looked into would need a readable card. Fortunately I found a company on the internet called RecoverFab. All of my pictures were recovered within a couple of hours of them receiving it and the price was very reasonable. I truly can't recommend their service enough! Susan |
| I had exactly the same problem with a memory card. The card had shown an error while filming our Wedding speeches and couldn't be read by any device. Effectively we had lost all video footage from our Wedding! In a panic we tried numerous methods to get the data off using software, which were to no avail. Eventually after much research we found recoverfab.com. This is a small company (I think one man 'Leopold') based in Germany, but they have very very good reviews so I thought I'd give them a go. We posted my memory card off (recorded delivery) and less than a week later received a link to all the pictures and video's on the card. I can't say how happy we are with the service and even though we had to pay, at under £200 it was much much cheaper than using many of the big recovery companies. I would recommend them to help! |
| I used Recoverfab to help recover 150 photos. My sd card was saying that it needed formatted every time I put it in my computer or camera. I gave the card to two different IT friends who couldn't recover anything. I also tried Photorec, but recovered mostly thumbnails of my photos. I filled out an order form with Recoverfab and they immediately sent me an order number and instructions of how to get my card there. Within a week, they had received the card and recovered over half of my lost photos. They are very professional to work with and I highly recommend them to anyone who has given up on their sd card, or who has a damaged card. From other reviews I've read, they are very reasonably priced compared to other companies that do this sort of work. I would definitely use them again! |
| The other day my wife switched on our digicam and was told it couldn’t access the sd card inside. I tried inserting the card into my MacBook – wasn’t recognized. Then I tried with the old XP PC and a card reader – same result. With a card in such condition software recovery solutions such as Zero Assumption Recovery just won’t work. After searching the Internet I came across Recoverfab. Sent the card there by mail, got receipt confirmation three days later and recovery confirmation another three days later. A fine service… The guy behind it has a high credibility because he’s worked in the semiconductor industry for more than 35 years. As it’s usually just the controller on the card that’s broken and not the actual memory chips they disassemble the card and extract the chips. Then the data is read from the chips with a special device in raw format and compiled into something readable. There’s a video on their website – quite interesting for the technically inclined. A word about the pricing. In contrast to digital recovery (using software tools) physical recovery is a) only provided by a handful of companies and b) usually terribly expensive. Those companies in general target enterprise customers for whom money isn’t an issue because their data is so valuable. With recovering sd cards one obviously targets John Doe customers, folks like you and me. The service provided by Recoverfab still isn’t cheap but affordable for most people. You pay per GB capacity no matter how much of your card’s capacity you actually used. |
| After sitting on a corrupted memory card for many years, we had a second memory card corrupt. Both cards had irreplaceable digital memories on them. My husband tried a number of different tactics that were found on the internet, none of which worked. After a few weeks of frustration, we decided to send the cards to Recoverfab. Honestly, we should have used them first! Setting up an account was extremely easy based on the step by step instructions received from the Company. After the company received the product in the mail, we received a notice with a status update. Less than a day later, he had our pictures!!! We had a number of questions regarding the size and a few specific pictures and Recoverfab was quick to answer any questions we had. We are beyond happy to have these memories back! Hopefully, we never have a corrupted memory card again, but if we do, recoverfab will be our FIRST stop! |
last update 2013 May 19