Thursday, February 17, 2011

How to recover deleted photos from a formatted SD card

How to recover deleted photos from a formatted SD card
Digital photos are the most cherished possession of any individual. Today, we capture all our memorable events in the form of digital photos. With the advent of digital camera, this has become possible. Camera saves the photos snapped with it in the SD cards which is a non-volatile memory card. However, corruption in the card due to various reasons like abrupt camera shut down, pulling out of the card at the time of data transfer, or virus attack can lead to non functionality of the card. To bring back the card to the working condition, you must format the card. But when you format a card, you tend to lose the photos stored in it prior to the format. To recover the photos, you must use photo recovery software.

I had gone for a marriage party of my friend. As I am a professional photographers, my friend gave me the responsibility of photography in his marriage party. Being a good friend, I took up the responsibility with all interest and snapped some really incredible photos. Back home I decided to edit the photos in my computer system and then give my friend the edited photos. To this, I tried to transfer the photos to my system. During the time of picture transfer, there was a power surge and as my UPS was non functional, my system abruptly shut down. After the electricity was back, I restarted my computer and tried to view the photos in the memory card. The photos in the card this time were missing. At the same time the complete photos were not transferred to my system. This was a real case of data loss.

As I conveyed my problem to a data recovery expert, he told me to format the card as the card was corrupt. He suggested me to recover the photos from the backup. When I told him that I had no backup of the card, he consoled me and informed me that the photos are still recoverable from the formatted card through a digital photo recovery software. He told me these software implement high ended algorithm to throughly scan the card and traces the photos inaccessible due tho card format. The traced photos are then recovered by the software.

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