I need help recovering damaged photos.

[Sidtyagi5]

I F'ed up bad... like really bad. I accidentally deleted some RAW pictures from my laptop. And to F up even more, I accidentally deleted them from the recycle bin too. I somehow managed to recover the files but they aren't opening. Instead, I get a message that the file is corrupted. It is a .CR2 file. I cannot afford image recovery software nor do I know any open source ones. These pictures were from a very important photo shoot. It was my first paid photoshoot as a photographer. And I really can't afford to pay for another shoot. 

 

 

[Kilrah]

21 minutes ago, Sidtyagi5 said:

I somehow managed to recover the files

How?

 

Photorec is a common free tool for file recovery.

Recover to another drive, and avoid doing as much of anything as possible to the drive the photos were stored on until the recovery is done, no downloading/installing programs if it was your OS drive.

 

You don't still have them on your memory card by any chance?

[Sidtyagi5]

7 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

How?

 

Photorec is a common free tool for file recovery.

Recover to another drive, and avoid doing as much of anything as possible to the drive the photos were stored on until the recovery is done, no downloading/installing programs if it was your OS drive.

 

You don't still have them on your memory card by any chance?

No i only had a 16 gb SD cardm, so i had to keep empting it regularly

[Kilrah]

R-Undelete is another option, forgot about it.