Continued
 

So I convinced the same girl who's videos and pictures I already found to give me an old SD card of hers. I told her my old camera would only take cards under 1 gig. She comes back a couple days later gives me an old 256mb card she found lying around at home. She asked if that would work and I said yeah thank you.

And an extra thank you now after I have run the recovery :)

Half damaged card
 

Lots of sectors damaged, but these were still salvageable..

Recovery Software
 

Guys I tried a lot of the free recovery software you guys have recommended here, for me the one that provided better results was SGsecurity's PhotoRec. Great succesful recovery rate for photos, even pdfs and other shit.
The only problem with this one is that just like the other softwares have been mentioned here the success rate on videos is very low. Many appear blanked or if lucky without sound, just a few are good.

I guess we need to find some that is just oriented to recovering videos.

Cheers ;)

lucky find
 

Found on old card

Last Couple From the SD Card Above.
 

Last couple from that SD card she gave me.

Probably nothing to do with being a video and more file size. The bigger a file is the more sectors it uses on a disk. When deleted the sectors are available for reuse and its likely some get overwritten. Smaller files like pics its less likely

here is one I found
 

I found these on a external hard drive full of movies (not any nude ones :o( )but there were a few of tony's girlfriend
thanks tony
Attachment 8624664 Attachment 8624665 Attachment 8624666 Attachment 8624667 Attachment 8624668

i also have a few Laptop HDD's (2.5") hear, i purchased a an adaptor off of eBay for $8.95, delivered (I'm in Australia)
hooked then up and they just show up as data storage drives when plugged into my iMac. then just scanned them.

i also have one 3.5" hdd hear but it wouldn't even power up so either the plug doesn't work with 3.5 or the hdd is dead. :confused:
ebay.com.au/itm/321472968564?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2648&ssPageNa me=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

excellent work, good to see you copied these pics and uploaded it hear, before tracking down the owner. :D

3.5" HDDs require more power than the 2.5" models. You may need to find an adapter that supplies 12v power, which would likely require an external power supply.