I’m new to photography and got a SanDisk 128gb SD card for my Canon Rebel T7. Two nights ago, I was messing around with a new lens I got and decided to see how much storage I had left. I looked it up just to find “Click the format card” I did and found the storage. However, (many of the other settings have cancel and okay, they both do the same thing, okay does if he setting is untouched) there was, what I assumed to be a little check mark, a square beside “delete all data” and I DID NOT CLICK IT, I clicked okay. But, like I said, I’m new and inexperienced, I did not know what format card even was. just like that, all my photos were gone. I recovered about 97 photos with this app but left around 1,042 photos ignored, I really want to get those back. I ran it again and still, only 97 were available. Most, if not all, of the new photos were in RAW format rather than JPEG, I don’t know if that was the leading factor or not, but please please please help if possible. I don’t want to mess things up again. Thanks!
No guarantees, (there can’t be for any recovery attempt), but I think they are probably being ignored because they are the non-deleted files.
ie The files that were on the SD card when it was reformatted, which of course are what you want.
I think that you may have done the wrong-type of scan and recovered only the files that had previously been deleted.
But don’t worry, you just need to do a different type of scan.
There is a particular way to use Recuva to get those non-deleted files back from a reformatted drive, see this linked post.
(PS. if you watch the video linked in there the the guy on that is using a reformatted SD card to demonstrate the process).