Windows 7 autoplay+""backup"" completely rewrote (erased) my SD card in 1 click 5 seconds

So Windows autoplay completely rewrote 13gb of WAV and MP3 files in 5 seconds with one click. How is this even possible??

Autoplay showed "use this drive as backup" as the 2nd option. I accidentally clicked on it and canceled it within 5 seconds.

Every single file originally on the drive is gone! No confirmation message, no "are you sure you want to continue?" NOTHING.

I've tried "convar PC inspector file recovery", "easeUS data recovery" and "easy file undelete" to no avail.

Please tell me that windows also backed up the files on the drive and stupidly changed all the files into some format only it can access... ????

Windows does NOT detect it as a backup drive. Is there any way I can force windows to recognize it as a backup drive and recover at least whatever files it wrote to the drive?

 

It probably wiped the partition....you want to use either testdisk or photorec


TestDisk - CGSecurity

 

Unfortunately SD cards can be different than HDD's in that respect. The blocks can be erased quickly where just trying to rebuild the file allocation table may not suffice. I think though there are utlities geared more specifically towards electronic cards though.................

 

My little brother did the same and thought he lost all his school papers.

http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Download this program and youre golden. Just be sure to place the recovered files onto your computer hard drive, as recovery onto the sd would potentially overwrite other files. It's free

Good luck!

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I am absolutely not golden.

Recuva found just as many files as every single other program I tried.

Anyone have some real help?

 

There is a suggestion here about using a chip reader - fix repair CF xD SDHC Memory Card USB flash drive error not formatted - Disclaimer I am not advocating this or any other recovery service.

 

I think that since you've tried so many programs and none found your files, the blocks on your drive have been effectively wiped. Unfortunately this means there is probably no real help. Sorry man. I hate losing data too.

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PhotoRec in my link wiht testdisk is designed to recover items from digital memory. Did the OP try PhotoRec?

 

Did the drive get refilled with data after being erased? If that is the case you're stuck. The way those recovery programs work is that they find the clusters that compose the files, still on the drive, before they're overwritten. If they've already been overwritten there isn't anything to recover.

I would have recommended easeus recovery, but you've already tried that.

 

Electronic disks are different than mechanical. For electronic consumer MLC disks to work properly the data blocks are cleared via comands. This is done way quicker too than mechanical as there is low access time between blocks. Although a true ssd my mushkin 120GB would secure erase in 5 seconds where a mechanical 120GB 7,200 RPM 2.5 would take quite while to do the same thing.

 

The thing is, it didn't just erase the data, it somehow wrote another 10gb+ of data. It can't do that in 5 seconds.

This is why I'm thinking maybe I can get windows to recognize it as a backup device and find that it backed up the files to the device?

Does anyone know if files originally on a backup device get backed up to the device when you choose to set it as a backup.

 

Since indeed it cannot do that, it didn't. Simple, innit?

No, Windows just initialized the card as backup media. It will not backup anything there without being told to do so. By the way, if Windows found files on that card, then it will have thrown up a confirmation dialog. Windows does not overwrite non-empty media without a warning, ever. Either the filesystem on your card was corrupt to begin with, or you were a bit too fast clicking (or hitting Enter).

No, see above.