Can photos or videos be recovered after accidentally formatting an SDXC card in a Sony camera?

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I accidentally formatted a Lexar Professional 64GB SDXC card in a Sony RX10 III before copying off all of the photos and videos. I tried several recovery tools, including Recuva, ZAR, EaseUS, and Lexar's software. Some scans show a few gigabytes of recovered data, but the files are listed as .INP and .INT and won't open in normal image, video, or Sony software. Is there a practical way to recover the original files, and do those .INP/.INT files mean the data is still there?

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PhotoRec always did a good job when I needed it. JPEG and RAW .

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step

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If the card was formatted in-camera on many Sony models, recovery may be very difficult or impossible with normal software. Some Sony cameras can issue an erase/TRIM-like command during formatting, which effectively unmapps the card’s data so recovery programs only see empty/zeroed sectors.

That means the .INP and .INT files you’re seeing are unlikely to be usable photo/video files themselves; they’re probably just artifacts from the recovery scan, not something you can open directly.

Your best software option mentioned was PhotoRec, which is well regarded for recovering JPEG and RAW files. Stop using the card immediately and try PhotoRec on a computer if you haven’t already.

If PhotoRec cannot recover readable files, the remaining option is a professional data recovery lab with specialist flash recovery hardware. That can sometimes access data beyond what consumer tools can do, but it’s typically only worth it for very important files.

So: try PhotoRec once, don’t write anything more to the card, and if that fails, only a specialist lab is likely to help.

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