Recovering files from micro-sd cards

[Balog]

Recently I had two separate micro-sd cards fail suddenly. One was an old phone I was just using as a tablet, the other was my work phone. I didn't have great backups on either for pictures etc because they weren't my primary phone was I was less cognizant about that. Anyway to recover the files without going all CSI on them?

[charby]

I use this http://www.sdcardrecover.com/ at work.
 
Costs $50 but it works

[Balog]

Awesome, thank you. :)

[Balog]

Although that brings up the point, if there is relatively cheap and available software to do this: anyone who own such software want to extract if for me, for a fee < the $50 the software costs?

[bedlamite]

http://www.cardrecovery.com/sd-recovery/
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Don't know if either one works or not.

[lee n. field]

http://www.cardrecovery.com/sd-recovery/
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Don't know if either one works or not.

photorec works (if the pc sees the memory stick as there, but doesn't see a file system).

[Calumus]

I've had good luck with
http://www.z-a-recovery.com
Used it a few times and gotten 99% of the pics on an SD card back.