A few days ago, My friend’s SD card accidentally formatted. While in the SD card is a memorable photographs of the birth of their first son. To restore these photos I recommend to use the recovery tool. To find the recovery tool, I told him to look for in google.

There are some recovery tools that are used. All are Windows programs. However, none of which succeeded. This is because the tool is a trial version. Meanwhile, to get the full version required to buy it. Fortunately I have a Ubuntu Linux machine which Ubuntu Lucid Lynx LTS upgrade from Ubuntu LTS Hardy Heron, minimal installation with LXDE. And finally my friend’s problem could be solved with the help of my Ubuntu Linux machine.

Here are some things you need to do with simple commands. This tutorial is written for Ubuntu GNU/Linux, but should be similar for most Linux machines.

1. Make a copy of the image of your SD card.
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=SDCARD-backup.img bs=1M

2. Install recoverjpeg package via apt-get
sudo apt-get install recoverjpeg

3. Run the command below.
$ recoverjpeg SDCARD-backup.img
Restored 398 pictures

The pictures that have been recovered will be stored in a folder. Please see the recovery that have been made. Good luck … Go Opensource .