We sometimes lose our valuable and irreplaceable pictures. The deleted photos can be recovered with the condition that there is no physical damage to the drive on which they are stored. But, we need to be careful not to overwrite or write new data on the drives, SD card, digital cameras, and other such devices till the lost images are all recovered.

Any type of digital storage media like memory cards, hard drives or even digital cameras are quite fragile in comparison with the photographic prints. When you have lost the only copy of precious photos and there is a single copy of the photo, then you need a photo recovery software providing a solution for these problems.

The digital pictures can be lost from a host of the following devices:

• Hard Drives
• External Storage like Pen Drives
• SD Cards
• Memory Sticks
• Flash Cards
• Hard Disks
• Mini Disks
• Zip Disks
• MMC Cards

 Photo Loss from Scan Disk SD Cards or Memory Sticks

 

This happens in the following situations like

• Deletion of photos from the SD card before they are transferred
• Accidental formatting or reformatting of the SD card
• Photos on the SD Card were erased

The professional photo recovery software can always help us to undelete the photos with the help of the options like Scan, Preview and Recover. These software can recover from formatted cards or from corrupt cards.

Photo Loss from Digital Camera Memory Cards

The professional digital cards store images in the Flash card like Secure Digital Flash card or Compact Flash Card. The loss of photos happens due to the following reasons:

• Accidental formatting of memory cards
• Deletion of photos from the cameras or the computer, due to some reasons
• Corrupt memory cards due to improper ejections and rendering them unreadable

The chances of recovery from the memory cards are higher because of the following reasons like:

• Smaller in Capacity
• Files are not Fragmented

The chances of salvaging the photos become lesser with the writing and the reading from the card after the loss, as it can overwrite the data.

Photo Loss from Hard Disk Drives

Formatting or accidental deletion of photos may happen from the internal and external hard disk drive in the computer. The computer hard disk drive, which is one of the safest secondary storage devices used for the storage of important items like photos. External storage devices are portable in nature and can transfer data like photos from one computer into another. The main purpose of the external hard drive is data backup.

• Accidental deletion of photos from the internal / external hard disk
•  Photos that are deleted by using ‘Shift + Delete’ key combination, bypassing the  recycle bin
•  Conflict between the third party application software with your system software which, results in photo loss
•  Interruption during photo file transfer between the external drive to the system
•  Photo loss may also be caused due to Re-formatting the hard disk drive by converting thefile system from FAT to NTFS
•  Formatting the hard drive can be another main reason for photo loss. This usually happens  when you connect an external hard drive (which contains photos) to your computer and get  an error like

“your hard drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now”.

This forces you to format and data loss happens.

•  Power surge while previewing the photos from the hard disk drive
•  Virus attacks on the photo file can be another main reason for photo loss from the hard disks

 

The professional photo recovery software can recover the photos for such cases of photo loss.

Photo Loss from the Mini Disks

The mini disks are magneto optical disk based data storage device, used for storing audio data. The lost, deleted corrupt data can be recovered from the mini disks. Some of the most common data loss situations are:

• Mini Disk Surface Damage
• Formatting of Data
• Hardware Errors
• Software Malfunction
• Not Finalized Disks

 

Photo Loss from Zip Drives

The Zip drives were used for the replacement of the floppy drives. Photos from the Zip drives can be lost due to various factors. The data recovery software helps to recover the photos.

Photo Loss from MMC Card

The Multimedia card (MMC) is a flash memory card used in storage media of various devices like mobiles, digital cameras and digital media players. The contents can easily be accessed.

Other Situations in which Data Loss Happens

• Removing MMC card without switching off the camera results in deletion of photos or other files
• The same MMC card is used in different devices may either lead to formatting errors or corruption, whereby MMC files become unreadable
• The battery is running out of the power and you are using your camera or mobile may sometimes also result in data loss from MMC card
• Accidental deletion of photos and other files from MMC card when it is connected to computer or directly from digital media device is the another major cause for data loss

There are photo recovery software, which can recover the photos and other files from the MMC card. This software also support recovery of files from variety of flash memory cards including SD, MicroSD, MiniSD, SDXC, SDHC, Memory Stick, CF and xD Card.

These photo recovery software, not only recovers from the above types of devices but also for HD MOV files. The deleted photos are previewed and saved with their original names. An improved scan engine can scan at a faster rate and creates a unique recovery experience for the users. The deleted recovery tree list lets you to recover specific deleted files. The users of new multimedia files can recover the files, with the addition of headers to the files.