Pictures and Videos Recovery

Attingo recovers lost photos and videos after hardware or software damages, from private holiday or wedding pictures to professional photography and insurance evidence pictures.

Storage media

• Internal or external hard drives
• CF card, Compact Flash
• IBM Microdrive
• SD-Card, SDHC-Card, Secure Digital
• microSD
• Sony Memory Stick
• MMC-Card, Multi Media Card
• Olympus xD Picture Card
• SM-Card, SmartMedia, SSFDC

Hardware damage

• Defective controller on a Flash card
• Defective memory chip on a Flash card
• Defective contact points on a Flash card
• Hard drive has electronical or mechanical damage

Attingo developed a method to remove and read out the individual memory chips of a Flash card. Therefore data rescue is possible, even from massively damaged Flash cards.

Software damage

• Accidentally formatted flash card
• Flash card formatted and overwritten with newly taken pictures
• Windows wants to format the flash card
• Photos are shown with errors (stripes)
• Preview picture is shown, but the photo itself is defective
• Deleted photos

Attingo is able to reconstruct photos even if the flash card has been formatted and new pictures have been taken. The reconstructed photos include a correct date and time information.