Recover lost digital photos from memory cards

You removed your memory card from the digital camera and plugged it into the PC's card reader but found no picture in it. Your Windows or photo editing editor or deleted file recovery application will not detect any photos on that card. Don't worry too much, because most of those photos can be recovered with normal operations along with special recovery tools. This article will cover this issue.

If you are concerned that your digital memory card has a problem, you should stop using it immediately. Do it right away if your digital camera or PC can't read the card or if the card can only store 38 photos while its capacity can be stored. more than 50 or if the photos you want to see were suddenly deleted or distorted on the display of the digital camera. Or stop using that card now.

Why can't Windows help you?

The Windows operating system allows you to read and delete photos on a memory card, but it cannot recover confidential photos because there is a difference between a computer's hard drive and a digital memory card. extend.

Extended digital memory cards also have similar structure with other storage devices such as a FAT table, root directory, subdirectory, data storage area, boot data, MBR partition table ( master boot record . . but they must be formatted using non-PC devices - this could be a digital camera - using a separate operating system compatible with them. The card information is also available with the CIS information card, which stores information about the manufacturer, type of camera and photos.

Even if the data area of ​​the card - where the photos are stored - is intact, problems with the other parts of the card are sometimes still completely unavoidable. Photos that are often lost in the form of cards are removed as soon as the photos are being stored making the card reformatted and erasing all images. In cases like this, not only the image but also the FAT table information is deleted, but the image file is still capable of being restored. Only in special cases some types of memory cards do not delete the information that the child overrides on those areas causing the image to be unrecoverable - the case of Casio and Kodak EasyShare.

If the boot information of the card is corrupted, you will receive a message that the card cannot be read or cannot be formatted. If the root directory is corrupted or boot information cannot point to these directories, you may lose access to subdirectories and image files. But if you recognize the problems in your image files still there and can be recovered using recovery tools.

Recovery tool

To recover lost photos you need a photo recovery software. We have reviewed and reviewed a number of applications in the Utility Guide section, which can be found here.

Most of the applications we have updated can help you recover photos in cases of normal loss such as deleted or corrupted data information. The two best-rated tools are ImageRecall - FlashFixers developer for $ 39.95 www.flashfixers.com - and PhotoRescue - DataRescue maker - www.datarescue.com.

Download and install the above tools and then point to your memory card to scan. You can apply standard or deep scan mode. For files deleted by carelessness, the standard scan mode is sufficient to restore. The application will show you which files to restore to allow you to select the photos to restore to your computer's hard drive.

After you've successfully restored your photos, you should reformat the memory card with your digital camera and take a few test shots to transfer it to your PC. If the card works well, okie, you must sacrifice the card.

Tricks - remember!

- Please remove the digital memory card extending out of the technical camera immediately after finishing the shooting, but remember to wait for all photo storage processes to end.
- Turn off the digital camera immediately after taking a picture
- Never take a picture when the camera's battery is almost empty
- Exchange photos on the memory card with your PC while the folders on the card are still open.
- Re-format the card without care
- Card format on PC or digital camera is different from the one you use for shooting
- Continue taking photos with the problem card