[Leica] What search and recovery program do you recommend?

[phong at doan-ltd.com (Phong)]

Simon Ogilvie wrote:
> I bought a product called photorescue from here
> http://www.datarescue.com/ which did the job for me very well.  I used
> it to recover the photos on a friends SD card after she'd put it
> through the washing machine while inside her mobile phone :-)  The
> card claimed to be empty but photorescue got all the pictures off it
> without any problem.  You can download a demo and try it out first,
> and then only have to pay when you want to recover the data.  That way
> if it doesn't find any data to recover you don't pay.  And it's only
> $29.

I second the recommendation for PhotoRescue from DataRescue.
The software is excellent and so is support.  They are from the 
Benelux, if I recall correctly.  Whatever software you decide to 
use, make sure it does not modify the media itself.

- Phong