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With the advent of digital storage devices, our photographs no longer need to undergo the tedious development process inside a dark room. Today, digital cameras produce photographs instantly and these pictures can be stored in a variety of devices like memory cards, memory sticks, USB Flash Drives and the like. Though we take regular backups of all our important files to prevent data loss, but with the increase in complexity of the technologies used, chances of data loss also increases. In such scenarios, where our photos might become inaccessible due to corruption in the storage devices Windows digital photo recovery applications are a great help.
Your photographs could get lost due to the following reasons:
Damaged/formatted data cards: Data cards often get damaged because of viruses or because they have been ejected from the camera while the camera is on. In such situations we often reformat the card, resulting in everything including the image files, getting erased.
The USB device could not be recognized: This situation arises due to conflict after installing device drivers, installing updates and patches, reinstalling your Bluetooth, etc. These software conflicts often result in the storage device becoming inaccessible.
The Media Card being used contains errors: Media card errors can occur due to mishandling, reformatting, virus attack etc. giving you an inaccessible media card error.
Corruption of data due to power failure or accidental shutdown: The computer in which the card has been inserted, switches off accidentally without saving files, resulting in the files remaining in an indeterminate state. In such cases your image files might get corrupted or lost.
Probable solution to address these problems:
If you are unable to access your images saved in the device then stop using the card and do not save anything in it.
Run a virus scan using a good antivirus software
Try reading the memory card on another camera or device to ensure that the card itself is in working condition
Try uninstalling any drivers you may have recently installed. They may be causing a software conflict
If the problem persists consider using third-party photo recovery software applications which can assist you in recovering your photos.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a digital photo recovery tool that retrieves your pictures without modifying the structure, size, and resolution of the images. The photo recovery software can recover photos from memory cards and various other devices. It is user-friendly and affordable, and the demo version generates a preview of the recovered file, so that you can be satisfied with the result before you buy.
