subject: Steps to recover deleted pictures [print this page] Steps to recover deleted pictures Steps to recover deleted pictures
You might lose your valuable photos due to many reasons like accidental deletion of images, deletion of drive or partitions; complete formatting of the memory card, formatting of the drive or partitions, improper shutdown of the system while transferring photos, virus attack, software malfunction, and file system corruption. However if you have lost/deleted your photos it is possible to restore lost digital photos by selecting a good photo recovery software.
How to prevent further data loss?
Recovery of deleted photos is depending on the usage of hard drive or the storage device after you delete images from it. Follow the steps given below to avoid permanent data loss.
Stop using the hard drive immediately, further use will lead to overwriting of deleted photos.
If you have lost pictures from other storage devices like memory card, SD card etc remove the card from the digital camera and store it securely until you restore deleted photos from it.
Do not try to install any new image recovery tool to the drive.
How to recover deleted photos?
Search the internet for a good photo recovery software. Read articles and blogs about the product. Make sure the utility is capable of recovering different file types like JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF and RAW. Check whether the application allows you to preview recovered photos before saving. Preview option helps to recover deleted photos easily. Always download the free demo version of the software to check the ability of the software. Follow the below given steps to restore deleted/lost pictures.
Connect the drive to a working system as a secondary hard drive.
Install the recovery utility to the system.
Run the software to retrieve lost images from digtial camera.
Follow the instruction and according to that retrieve deleted files
Note: Save the recovered photos to another hard drive.
