Photo Recovery from Flash Card
Flash card is widely used to store large amount of digital data including photos and other media files such as audio & video files. Digital camera users often face huge loss of their valuable photos as a direct consequence of corruption in flash card. The flash cards get corrupted in various scenarios including common human errors committed while using the flash card. To salvage the lost and deleted photos from the corrupt flash card, you should opt for efficient flash card recovery software that can recover photos of almost all the file formats from the flash card in all the data loss situations. To restore data from corrupted flash card you can use corrupt flash memory card data recovery software. This award-winning flash card recovery software makes use of advanced scanning and recovery algorithms in order to retrieve lost images from flash card even after formatting process is performed on the card. The recovery tool supports photo recovery on different types of flash cards such as Secure Digital(SD) card, Extreme Digital(XD) picture card, MultiMediaCard(MMC), Memory Stick(MS), SmartMedia(SM) and even recover deleted photos from Compact Flash card.
This flash card recovery software uses the smart search method, based on the unique signatures of photos and various other files; with the help of this technique you can specify the file types, that you want the software to recover, from the damaged flash card used in PDA’s, MP3 players, personal computers and several other handheld devices. The software has the capability to restore jpeg photos from flash card, in addition to this; it can recover photos of raw file formats such as CR2, CRW, SR2, ARW, NEF, X3F, etc. The recovery utility can be used as Canon flash card photo recovery tool to recover raw photos from Canon digital camera and also the above mentioned raw photos generated by various professional digital and DSLR cameras.
This software supports recovery of media files from flash card on Windows OS as well as recover media files from flash card on Mac OS X. It can comfortably recover photos from FAT16, FAT32, ExtFAT, NTFS & NTFS5 formatted partitions on Windows OS and HFS+ & HFSX formatted volumes on Mac computers. Some of the scenarios that cause loss of photos from flash card are discussed here:
- Accidental/Intentional format: When you unintentionally format the flash card connected to computer, instead of formatting some other drive/partition, it leads to complete deletion of photos and other files that were present on the card before the format. Data is also deleted when you intentionally format the card due to corruption.
- Virus Infection: Flash card may get corrupted when some virus files are intruded on it during transfer of data into flash card from virus-infected computer or internet.
- Accidental deletion: While accessing the flash card on camera, if you accidentally use the delete option provided on cameras, it will cause deletion of photos from the card. You may also delete photos using “Shift + Delete” key combination on Windows OS, this will also result in loss of data.
- Improper removal: Photos may become inaccessible if the flash card is unplugged from the computer while transferring photos between them or if you don’t use the “Safe Remove Hardware” wizard for unplugging.
Retention failure and excess read/write cycles on flash card are some of the other reasons for loss of photos and other digital data from the flash card. In all these data loss scenarios, our flash card recovery software can be preferably used, without hesitation,to restore data from flash card. Simple steps are provided below to undelete deleted photos from CF card used in any multimedia device:
Step I: Launch the software after installing it on your computer hard drive. Select “Recover Photos” option on the main software interface, as shown in Fig I. On the next window, select an appropriate recovery option required by you.
Figure I: Recover Photos
Step II: Next screen displays a list of detected physical drives, select your corrupt flash card from the list and click “Next”. Now, software provides smart scan method, here select file types to recover and click “Next”, as shown in Fig II, to initialize the scanning process.
Fig II: Select File Types to Recover
Step III: Once the data scanning is completed, the software displays list of recovered photos, as displayed in Fig III. Select “Preview” option to preview a recovered photo before saving it to a healthy drive once you purchase the full version of the software.
Fig III: List of Recovered Photos
