I have the cannon sd1000 I accidently formated the camera, will recuva help me bring back the pictures which were lost ?

I dont have a card reader Can I use my USB port and connect it to my computer and then run Recuva ?

When you download files from your camera, do you do it through Canon software or does the card show up as a new drive on the PC?

Before I got a PC with card slots I had to use the camera's software to download pics... and I hated it. Then I remembered my MP3 player also used SD cards... and it always showed up as a drive. So I downloaded my pics from the MP3 player.

Just a hunch that if it shows up as a drive, Recuva will probably work.

I hook it up with the USB port and the hardware show up in my computer

So you open Recuva and in the drive list as the top left select your drive/card then scan.