# Undoing Formatting on Digital Cameras?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undoing-formatting-on-digital-cameras/296113>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 25, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undoing-formatting-on-digital-cameras/296113 "2005-03-25T00:02:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undoing-formatting-on-digital-cameras/296113/1 "2005-03-25T00:02:30Z")

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Apologies if this question is in the wrong place but Im just wondering can photots that were stored on a digital cameras memory card be restored once the card has been formatted?

I was in Paris for the last few days, took plenty photos, but when trying to do something else I formatted the card.

:wally:

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**Author:** ![groman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@groman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/groman)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/undoing-formatting-on-digital-cameras/296113/2 "2005-03-25T04:56:12Z")

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Depends on the digital camera, but I believe somebody makes recovery software for Flash cards.

Ah, here it is:

[http://diskinternals.com/flash-recovery/](http://diskinternals.com/flash-recovery/)

You will most likely need card reader hardware for your PC(can be bought for under $40 nowadays).