How to Recover Deleted Pictures
Photo recovery advice to help recover deleted pictures
Have you lost or deleted pictures?
Do you need to recover deleted pictures from a camera memory card or PC?
Learn what you need to know about photo recovery here...
The good news is, that depending on what has happened to the system since you deleted the photos, it's very
easy to undertake photo recovery and successfully recover deleted pictures from either a PC or camera memory card
in many circumstances.
Further down this page we show you how to recover deleted
photos
Urgent Information
Before that however, we provide some
essential vital information on photo recovery
that will help ensure you can
successfully recover deleted pictures...
When Pictures Get Deleted....
When digital pictures (or any files) are
deleted, the data itself is not erased. It is just the index entry that shows where the data for those files is
located that gets removed. The area where the deleted picture data was stored is also now marked as free space
so it is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.
So any new files could to be written to the space. If and when that happens,
then it is too late to recover your deleted pictures.
So,
it's very important to not do anything that might cause new files and data
to be written to the device that you deleted pictures from,
and now just read on to recover your deleted photos....
Photo Recovery and how to Recover Pictures from a PC
If the deleted photos had already been transferred to a PC hard
drive and have been lost from there, then you need to be extremely careful what you do next for the best
chance of successful photo recovery.
This involves using that computer as little as possible to minimise disk activity.
If you are reading this page on the same computer on which you need to recover deleted pictures, do nothing further
on this computer. Do not close this internet browser window. Use another computer and visit this site, Recover Deleted Pictures, from
there instead.
If you need to recover pictures from your computer's hard drive in
particular, you should refrain from any further activity on that computer.
This means you should not use it to browse the internet as this causes lots of temporary files to be written to the
disk. Remember, any disk activity reduces the likelihood that you will be able to recover deleted pictures using
any photo recovery software.
You should NOT open applications or programs as this also often causes lots of disk activity making the successful
photo recovery and the recovering deleted pictures more difficult.
You should also NOT close any applications or programs as this may cause files to be updated and saved to the disk.
Any application that is still writing data to disk should be halted if possible, preferably still without actually
closing it.
Do NOT shut down, close or reboot your PC. This may cause applications or Windows itself to save data by creating
new files, potentially overwriting your lost data and again making it more difficult to recover pictures.
Use another computer and visit this site, Recover Deleted Pictures, from
there instead. Then carry on reading about Photo Recovery and how to recover deleted pictures further below
......
Photo Recovery and how to Recover Deleted Pictures from a Camera Memory Card
Most of today's digital cameras use memory card devices such as SD,
MiniSD, XD, CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Sony Memory Stick, and MMC memory cards to store and retrieve photos and
image data.
As with a PC disk drive, it is quite possible to undertake photo recovery and to recover deleted pictures from a
camera memory card and very often with more success.
Unlike a computer's disk drive, memory card devices store the data on a small chip contained inside. However, a
camera memory card is little different to a disk drive with regards to the way that data (the digital picture
images) is stored on and retrieved from it.
This includes what happens when digital picture image files are deleted from the camera memory card. Similarly, the
same principles apply if you need to undertake photo recovery to recover deleted photos or movie files from a
memory card.
For photo recovery techniques to have the best chance of success when trying to recover deleted photos, do not save
any more images or files to the camera memory card concerned.
In most cases,
all or most of the deleted photo image data
is still contained on the memory card
You stand a good chance of being able to recover deleted pictures until new data (a new picture) is saved onto the
card. At that point the likelihood of successful photo recovery diminishes.
In many instances it is also possible to recover deleted pictures from a camera memory card even after a reformat
of the card while in the camera. However, some proprietary techniques for reformatting can sometimes completely
wipe all traces of the files from the card and make it impossible for photo recovery software to recover deleted
pictures in these cases.
How to Recover Deleted Pictures
The quickest and easiest way to recover pictures from either a PC or
camera memory card is to use a specialist photo recovery software package. There are a number of products
available, of which only a few do a consistently good job of recovering deleted pictures.
One of the best photo recovery software
products is
Asoftech Photo Recovery
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With Asoftech Photo Recovery you can:
Recover deleted pictures - JPEG, TIFF, BMP, CRW, NEF, RAW filetypes and more
Recover deleted movie and sound files - AVI, MPEG, MOV and WAV filetypes
Recover pictures from SD cards, CompactFlash cards, USB memory sticks, PC hard drives etc
Recover deleted photos and formatted memory cards
See exactly what deleted pictures can be recovered
using the free trial version of Asoftech Photo Recovery
You can actually see the files it finds displayed as onscreen thumbnail images.
This means you can be totally confident
that it will recover deleted pictures that you want before buying it.
To maximise your chances of being able to recover deleted pictures successfully,
just follow this simple procedure:
Step 1
To recover pictures using Asoftech Photo Recovery, download and
install Asoftech Photo Recovery on your PC.
Remember, if the deleted pictures you wish to recover were on your PC then download the software to a different PC
and copy it to a device such as a USB memory stick and run it from that.
(Step 2)
Connect your digital camera to the PC or place your camera card (CompactFlash card, SD card etc) into a card reader
connected to the PC. This step does not apply if the deleted photos are on the PC itself.
Step 3
Then run Asoftech Photo Recovery and scan your camera memory card or your PC hard
drive.
You should now be able to view your deleted pictures in the photo recovery preview window!
Step 4
If you can see the deleted pictures you want to recover, you then need to
buy Asoftech Photo Recovery (the full version) to save the recovered files and complete the recovery process.
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Successful Photo Recovery!
Remember that the more you use the device your deleted pictures are on,
the more likely it is that they will get overwritten.
Follow the above
procedure as soon as possible for your best chance of
successful photo recovery.
We hope you are able to recover your deleted pictures.
If you found this site useful, please recommend us to your friends.
Visit www.asoftech.com/recover/ to
recover deleted pictures.
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