Hi all
Have been away for a couple of days over Easter but just logged back into Pprune.
Wow - I am amazed at all the responses. Thanks to all of you for rallying round like this.
So far I have tried running some of the free ones and between them they seem to have got back a good number of the still photos. As for the videos - some got recovered but whenever I try to play any of them in Quick Time Player I get a message saying 'this is not a format Quick Time understands'. They don't work in VLC either.
The other apps cost and I wouldn't mind paying for them, but would prefer to know they will recover the videos before shelling out!
I also put the SD card in a friend's PC and tried Recuva, but this didn't bring up that many files :-(
Mixture and Llondel - your advice about making an image is good - I have done this. But as you have probably gleaned, I am a novice in this field of IT, so any advice in English about 'using the Terminal app and getting access to the command line' or 'how to recover them with a bit of raw sector manipulation using the dd command' would be highly welcome!
Thanks again
Mark