subject: Myths about Photo Recovery Software [print this page] Photo recovery software is very useful and handy in recovering lost photos. The fact that you cannot replace photos especially those of the loved ones, or special occasions makes recovery of lost photos critical. There are many myths associated with photo recovery and photo recovery software. Let us look at some of the common myths
Photos lost due to any scenarios can be recovered using photo recovery software
Photo recovery software is versatile in recovering
photos lost by deletion of the drive or partition
formatting of the drive, partition or memory card
power outages
software malfunction or
Photos lost while transferring photos from digital camera to hard drive.
Though it will recover photos deleted by virus, the usability of the photos will depend on the extent of damage done by the virus.
Using photo recovery software is the only way to recover photos lost due to corruption of the operating system.
Corruption of the operating system can be caused due to file system corruption or virus. When the file system is corrupt you cannot access the partitions or any of the stored data. You will get an error message you need to format the partitions before using it'. In such cases, the easiest way to recover lost photos is by removing the hard drive and installing it to another healthy hard drive. This will help you to access data. Though photo recovery software is capable of recovering photos lost due to file system corruption, it is expensive compared to the former method.
There is no photo recovery software for Raw file formats
This is not true. There are advanced photo recovery softwares capable of recovering Raw file formats. Raw file formats are based on cameras and varies with operating system. For example, a digital camera by Sony uses the Raw file format ARW, SR2 on Mac and SRF on Windows, whereas Minolta uses MRW extension on both Mac and Windows. Some of the other popular file extensions for Mac and Windows include CR2, CRW (Canon), NEF (Nikon), X3F (Sigma), PEF (Pentax), and ORF (Olympus).
Any recovery software can be used to recover lost photos
Based on the operating system you can use a Windows data recovery software or Mac photo recovery software to recover photos if they support recovery of data from file extensions such as JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF (on Windows) or BMP, PNG, TIF, TIFF, JPEG, JPG, GIF and PSD (on Mac). However using photo recovery software is much more economical than using Windows or Mac data recovery software.
