I need to recover pictures on an SD card that gave accidentally been formatted on my Chromebook

Oleksandr Kamennyi

Hello, thank you for using Howly. I’ll be happy to help you out! May I ask your name?

Customer Replay

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Oleksandr Kamennyi

Nice to meet you, *****!
Was the SD card itself formatted?

Customer Replay

I think so, I didn’t know it was going to delete the photos off the SD card since it wouldn’t read the SD card when I put it in the adapter

Oleksandr Kamennyi

Unfortunately, It is impossible to recover a formatted SD card

Customer Replay

Even if it shows up on my computer now, with my camera name? It’s saying there’s a dsc file

Oleksandr Kamennyi

When you format an SD card, you delete all files stored on it, including your photos. That said, the deleted photos will physically remain on the SD card until they are overwritten by new data, giving you a chance to recover them using special SD card recovery software

Customer Replay

Okay so how would you get it back? I have a Chromebook but it won’t download the software. What are my options? Do I need to go somewhere special or can I do it myself?

Oleksandr Kamennyi

I would look in the direction of Linux tools if your chromebook supports linux.

Customer Replay

Okay I’ll try that then thank you

Oleksandr Kamennyi

I’m glad I was able to get that sorted out for you. Is there anything else I can assist you with today?

Customer Replay

Nope that is all thank you