I have a 2GB Optime SD card. I mistakenly reformatted the camera and it wiped out all my pictures. Many many pix from vacation. Anyway to retrieve this? Any help is greatly appreciated. We are extremely disappointed by my stupidity. Fred

Hey, don't blame yourself. This is a common situation that everyone may have suffered from it. And you can get the files back by recovery tools. For example, 4Card Recovery. It is able to recover a variety of files. Just have a try. How to Recover Photos Videos off SD Card after Formatting Unformat SD...

Hi Fred
Easily done. Easy to fix too.
There's free software available on the web (use Versiontracker.com to find it) for whichever OS you are using. You connect the card to your computer with a card reader and then run the software. As long as you haven't tried to take more picture on it you should get them all back.
Good luck.

Okay, heres the bad news, there's a good chance that you will not get all of your pictures back. The good news is that most formatting only allocates space as empty, it does not actually overwrite it, so the picture data may still be retrievable.

I have used a sweet little freeware program called Restoration, which can try to recover deleted files from hard drives, jump drives, flash cards, ect, and have had great success with it. Heres a link to the download page:

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.HTML

Like I said, it probably wont' restore all the pictures, but I'll bet long odds that it can get most of them back. Good Luck!