Friday, May 20, 2011

How to recover lost photos from CF cards

How to recover lost photos from CF cards
CF Cards – Compact flash cards

Compact Flash (CF) cards are widely used in portable devices. It uses flash memory to store large volume of data and is available in wide range of capacities. These cards mostly used digital cameras, camcorders, handy cams and cell phones. The digital photos, pictures and videos which you have taken through digital camera are stored in compact flash (CF) card.

CF cards are prone to corrupt

These cards get easily corrupt or damaged in many instances. Once the CF card becomes corrupt, all your saved pictures or videos are lost instantly. In such scenarios, you will format the corrupt card, resulting permanently deletion of the photos.

What if you have lost your photos?

You need to have backup in case there is some problem in your CF Card, but if you haven’t a backup? There is a way to recover your lost photos by using a photo recovery software.

Reasons of Photo loss:

However, there are so many other reasons due to which you may lose your photos from your compact flash card such as mistakenly deleted of digital photos from camera, sudden camera shut down due to power failure while transferring photos to computer, clicking too many photos while battery is low, or ejecting of CF card during read/write process. In all these circumstances you may lose your valuable pictures and memories unknowingly.
The best way to deal these, opt for a good photo recovery software with a very good review.

The process of recovery lost or deleted photos highly depend on the selection of good recovery software. A lot of recovery software is available in the market, which promises to recover lost or deleted photos from any media but they are unable to recover all file format.

Be careful, there are many others software which are reliable and safe to use. Therefore, You must observe the following points before choosing any software from the internet:

  • Choose the versatile software
  • Choose the software which is non-destructive in nature and read only.
  • choose software which shows preview recoverable photo
  • Choose the software belongs to a reputable company or organization.

Last but not the least, this software should detect your card using card reader or USB device.
Enjoy photography but handle your camera with a caution..

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