If you are chatting with digital cameras, you will find that stored photo files can be accidentally lost. In most cases, these files are stored on the SD card inserted in the digital camera. You may delete some photos by mistake, especially when you are in a rush to take more photos. You can also lose saved photos when the digital camera battery changes position. If you find an incessant virus attack on your memory card, some of the stored photos may be corrupted. Many of them can also be lost. In any case, it is always possible to recover deleted photos as long as you have not formatted the memory card. You can follow these simple tips to recover lost photos.
• Stop saving new photos when you find that you have lost some of your oldest ones. If you continue to add new photos, the deleted photos will be overwritten. This can cause them to be permanently lost from the memory card.
• Turn off your digital camera and also remove the card from its normal position.
• Insert the SD card into your computer’s card reader and wait a while for it to appear. If you put it in properly, your system will immediately detect it as a removable device. You can click “My Computer” to check whether the card is recognized or not.
• Download a good photo recovery software. It is also known as image or card recovery software. You can easily get the application from a reliable online resource. There are many to choose from. You should use any of the popular card recovery programs that are known for their fast delivery of results. You can go for any of them that have a free trial version.
• Install photo recovery software on your computer. Just click the “install” icon when browsing the downloaded files. You must follow the onscreen instructions displayed on your screen to install the software. You can reboot your system if you are prompted to do so.
• After installation, you must start the program. You will continue to select the SD card in the program window. Then the recovery process will begin. The software will run a full scan on your memory card to recover the lost photos. The scan may take a few minutes, depending on the size of the lost files. After the scan is finished, the deleted photos will be recovered and displayed. You will then go on to select the ones you need.
• To save the recovered files, you need to create a new folder on your computer’s hard drive and then move the recovered photos to it. Then you will preview some of them to make sure they are well recovered.
Finally, you can back up the remaining files on the SD card by copying them to a new folder on your system’s hard drive. Then you can format the card and also restore the recovered photos.
