How To Recover Deleted Photos From Digital Camera’s Memory Card

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Taking many beautiful pictures in your vocation and looking forward to showing them to your family. However, your young daughter somehow monkey with the camera and deleted all the pictures. Or your camera said “Card Error” and asked you to press the “Format” button instead of deleted button and wipe your card clean which holds precious photos about the family reunion. Such things often happen in our daily life. It is really depressing if we can’t get back these precious images.

Fortunately, today’s digital camera usually store your pictures separately on a flash memory card. The most commonly memory cards like SmartMedia, Memory Stick, SD, CF are often seen in digital camera. Owing to them, retrieve pictures from digital camera becomes possible for memory cards just like floppy disk or computer hard drive don’t permanently erase a file once it has been deleted, instead they remove the file and list its space as available, re-usable space. Therefore, unless the space is taken by other pictures or files, it ...
... will still be there and you can get them back again.

Then how to recover deleted photos? First, stop shot anymore and no deletion. Because once you continue to use your camera, or reformatted your memory card, pictures probably are overwritten with new ones. Get out of your memory card and connect it to your PC. Sometimes, a memory card reader is needed. Once the card appears as a drive letter in “my computer”, you may download a small data recovery program I am using now. (http://www.card-data-recovery.com) Simply install it on your PC under the wizard. Run it. You can see the fresh interface with four functions divided. Within four steps, you can get back your pictures:
1. Select deleted “photo”. It will take you a few minutes to scan your memory card；

2. You can see all deleted or formatted images listed on the task window, all pictures will be list with the same signature. Preview the images in the preview window and check the deleted photos you want to recover;
3. Select a path folder for the recovered pictures;
4. Click “OK” to finish recovery.