subject: Different Ways to Recover Lost Photos [print this page] Photos are digitally compressed and stored using coding standards such as JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP, and GIF. Stored photos are equally prone to data loss as much as your data files.. Deletion of photos, formatting of the drive, or partition, partition corruption, corruption to the file system, power outages, software malfunction and errors in transferring photos can lead to loss of photos from the hard drive of a laptop, PC or from memory cards. Losing favorite photos of can be very disturbing. The loss cannot be quantified since photos are irreplaceable. This compels you to recover lost photos. This article helps you to explore different ways for recovering lost photos. For better clarity we restrict the discussion to loss of photos from hard drive of a PC or laptop
You can recover data from the hard drive of a PC or laptop either by sending it to a service centre or by using do-it yourself (DIY) data recovery software. Sending the hard drive to a lab is time consuming and expensive compared to DIY software. However, in a service centre you can get expert opinion regarding the chances of recovering music files. If you are not confident about using the DIY software you can opt for sending the device to a service centre.
DIY software -There are different data recovery software available in the market. The capabilities of the software vary widely. In addition, to recover photos there are many software such as Windows data recovery software, file recovery software, or digital photo recovery software. Selecting the right software is a little tricky. Let us look at how to make an informed decision regarding this.
Windows data recovery software- This software has enhanced features and can be used to recover all types of data including audio, video and digital files from Windows operating system. Due to the enhanced features the software is expensive.
File recovery software- File recovery software can also recover audio, video and digital files from a variety of data loss scenarios including reformatting, repartition, deletion etc. However, if the photos are lost during repartition or due to deletion of partitions file recovery software will not be useful. In addition, it does not allow you to preview files before recovering lost photos.
Photo recovery software- This will allow you to recover photos lost from hard drive of the laptop, PC, or any other device that use memory cards. It allows you to preview files and is capable of recovering lost photos from almost all data loss scenarios.
To recover photos including those in Raw file formats, any of the three products can be used. However, file recovery will not allow you to preview files and to recover photos lost by repartition or due to deletion of partitions. You can use photo recovery software only to recover audio, video and digital files. Whereas Windows data recovery software will help you recover photos as well as other data, enables preview of the files and to recover data from any of the data loss scenarios. Some of the trusted ways to identify
