Help again, this is not my week, I lost a irreplaceable interview by accidentally reformatting the card in the camera, I didn't shoot on it again, is there anything I can do before 2pm pacific tomorrow to recover the files???????

Thanks in advance for the wonderful community here.

Mac or PC? If Mac you want to invest in "Data Rescue 3". You can select the formatted card and run a "Deep Scan" it may take a while depending on the size of the SDHC card, but it will retrieve your interview. For PC options, a quick google search like "Memory card data recovery software for PC" should yield an immediate result. IMO it's well worth spending the money to buy and download a full version of anything you get. It's always nice to have a back up plan if something like that happens.

You want to be careful not to do anything that writes to the card. That could further corrupt & complicate retrieving your footage. On the PC side I use a program called Zero Assumption Recovery. When I have needed it, it has worked well for me.

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Use Disk Doctors Photo Recovery and then Import the Files into XDCAM-Browser. I had the same problem, these Steps worked perfect for me.

P.S. Data Rescue 3 didn't work in my case.

P.P.S. http://www.diskdoctors.net/photo-recovery.html <- This Program is (as far as i know) the only one that recovers xdcam-format.

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