Possible ways to recover photos from compact flash card
Digital cameras are the best gadgets to take photographs. Photos taken by digital cameras have good picture clarity, easy to be stored and take seconds to view the captured snap. Almost all digital cameras used memory card to save the clicked snap. Memory card used by digital cameras can be SD card, MMC, SmartCard, CF card etc. Different digital cameras use different memory cards according to there memory card slot.
CF cards (Compact Flash) are most popular memory cards which are used to in digital cameras to store the clicked pictures. These memory cards come with storage capacity ranging from 2 MB to 128 GB. Photos clicked on digital camera get saved on memory card; these photos can be transferred to computer using memory card reader or by connecting the digital camera to computer via USB cable. There can be instances where photos saved on these memory cards may accidentally deleted by the user. When precious photos from CF memory card get deleted, user might get frustrated and might be confused as how to recover photos from compact flash card.
There are many scenarios where photos from CF card may get deleted. Some of the common seniors are discussed below
- Photos deleted due to corruption: – Continuous plugging and unplugging of memory card from memory card slot of digital camera may corrupt memory card. Corruption of memory card may lead to loss of photos from memory card.
- Loss of photos during transferring: – Occurrence of error while transferring photos from memory card to computer or vice versa can result in loss of photos.
- Loss of photos due to accidental formatting: – Accidentally formatting memory card from digital camera or when memory card attached to computer can lead to loss of photos.
- Loss of due to virus attack: -External memory sticks or external memory storage devices are always prone to get infected with viruses. Viruses delete some photos are corrupt the file system of memory card which can result in loss of precious photos from memory card.
Hence to avoid any loss of photos from memory card it is always advised to use the memory card in a correct way and backup the photos on regular basis.
There is no need to worry if photos get deleted or lost from memory card, as deleted or lost photos can always be recovered using data recovery software. There are many photo recovery software’s available but only some are trustable. Remo Recover (Windows) – Media Edition is one such software which can efficiently recover photos which got deleted or lost from memory card. This software not only recovers photos, it has the ability to recover other media files such as songs and videos. It can also be used to recover media files which were deleted from computer hard drive, external hard drive, USB drive and other storage devices. The recovered files are displayed on the basis of creation date, size, file type and name. The demo version of the software is distributed freely on Remo Software website. User can download the demo version and recover there lost or deleted photos.