How to Recover Deleted Pictures from a Memory Card
Everybody has a digital camera these days. More and more people use digital cameras to record wonderful moments.
The Christmas Day is coming; people of us will use the digital camera to record the memories of happy time in our lives during the Christmas such as the big family dinner, sweet date with your lover, etc. With the digital pictures which are taken by the camera, we can share our happiness with the people we want. This seems so fantastic.
But it seems digital pictures are easier to lose than traditional film pictures because the digital camera has a useful but dangerous delete button or feature. An operation mishap may delete one or all of the pictures instantly. Do you think the valuable pictures were permanently lost? NO! In most cases, there are some easy ways to restore them.
Ways to Restore Deleted Pictures
A digital camera stores the pictures you take as separate files on a flash memory card (also known as "digital film"). There are many different types of memory cards such as SD, CF, XD Picture Card, SmartMedia, Memory Stick, the MMC Card and more. In addition, each card type has different brands like SanDisk, Kingston and more. They have different sizes, capacities and appearances, but they are just the same when acting as storage to hold pictures-they are similar to your old floppy disk or hard drive.
When you delete one or more pictures from your camera, your camera locates the picture files on the memory card, then "deletes" them and marks the leftover space as usable. In most cases, for fast processing, the camera doesn't delete the picture file body but leaves them as is, which makes it possible for us to retrieve them after deletion.
Okay, let's begin. To recover deleted pictures, you need to connect your camera to your computer (usually via USB). If your camera does not appear as a drive letter in "My Computer", an external USB card reader is necessary. You may find such card readers from local computer shops, Amazon, BestBuy, or Wal-Mart. They're very cheap and very useful, not only for data recovery, but also for photo retrieval and processes in daily life. When you insert the card in the card reader, and connect the card reader to your computer, it will appear as a drive letter in "My Computer", which will allow a software tool to access the data on the memory card.
So, which of photo recovery software is needed? Here we suggest you to have a try on uFlysoft Photo Recovery. It's a small download and you may get it in less than one minute.
All you need to do is to run the downloaded executable file and follow the instructions to install it on your computer. Then launch it. It has a wizard-style interface and it's very easy to use. In a word, with it, get back your lost photo is just a piece of cake!
Tips
1. Do not save the recovered data on the drive which the photo lost before or you may lose the files again.
2. If you are a Mac user, have a try on uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac, a powerful data recovery tool which helps you to get back lost data such as Word, Excel, etc.
