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Also, do I need to have the SD card inserted in the laptop when trying to recover the files, or will the files be on the laptop hard drive?

Thank you. It's all very strange, I've lost hundreds of photos and videos. I don't think it's a corrupted SD card issue as it's actually happened with 2 cards that I've been working on. Is there any possibility at all that the files will be fully recoverable despite what the scan reports? Is Recuva the best option for recovery? If I try recovering them now and it's unsuccessful will that mean any future attempts by other means will not be possible and the files will be lost forever?

Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry, I'm not very tech savvy. So I did a deep scan and the files are showing up but it says they are overwritten and unrecoverable. Should I try recovering them? Have the files actually truly been overwritten? Also, why were the other files that I never selected deleted? Any ideas? The files that I actually did select for deletion were fully recoverable, it's just the files that were deleted automatically that have been overwritten.

I was recently deleting files from my sd card while plugged into my laptop but for some reason hundreds of other files which I never selected have been deleted too. Whenever I use Recuva it says that the files are overwritten by files already existing on the SD card and unrecoverable. I haven't uploaded any new files to the SD card. Please help, I'm very confused about how this has happened. Is it possible to recover the files?