Recover Digital Photos from CF Cards

With the advancement in technology, the digital cameras have gained a lot of importance to store digital images with excellent quality and resolution. In the pre digital age when analog cameras where used they used to perform two tasks one is capturing image on the light sensitive film and second is processing it with chemical to get a stabilized image. Now days the photos that are being captured through digital cameras store its images in memory cards. CF (Compact Flash) memory cards are one such mass storage device that makes use of flash technology to store data on it. It is a non-volatile and solid-state device that supports FAT32 file format. CF is based on the Serial ATA for interface. CF cards are designed with different storage capacities according to the need of people. They are generally used in portable electronic devices. Digital cameras make use of these CF memory cards for storing high definition and crystal clear pictures.

Photos are usually captured on special occasions for lasting memories. Memories are nothing but remembrance of the past, which are directly, linked with any individuals emotions. Memories fade but photos wont. Photos represent those pleasant moments of life, which can never come back. Photos play a vital role in our lives. Under some instances, we tend to lose our photos due to improper handling of camera, ejecting the cable while transferring photos, error in media file system in which photos are stored, CF card getting corrupt, etc. After losing your valuable photos, you would be in sad and frustrated condition. Stop worrying, as you can make use of CF card photo recovery software, with the help of which you can restore lost pictures from digital camera with utmost ease. Click here to know more.

Photos are lost mainly due to human negligence which is a common problem faced by many individuals. Selecting the Delete All option while previewing the photos by mistake, that deletes all photos present in camera. If you have formatted the CF card when it was interfaced to computer, as it was not recognized and asked for format card option. Photos are lost while ejecting the CF card from the camera when it is in read or write process. If you have used the same CF card in different electronic devices like phones, cameras, Mp3 players, etc then your card gets corrupt due to damage of file structure and leaves it inaccessible. Photos lost due to corruption of CF card by some harmful virus. While transferring the photos between computer and memory card reader if you eject the interface cable then also you tend to lose your photos.

These were few scenarios that contribute to photo loss. Hence, to avoid photo loss you can take some precautions like do not be in a hurry state while operating an electronic device, which might lead to selection of wrong option that results in loss of data. Always keep an up to date backup of files. If you still tend to lose your photos then the best solution is to opt for photo recovery software. Digital photo restoration program is one such software, which is specially designed by professionals to recover deleted and lost photos. By using this software, you are able to recover digital RAW image files from formatted memory cards and partitions. It supports recovery of all types of media files from external hard drives, pen drives, camcorders, iPods, etc. It also creates disk image of files to bypass the bad sectors and recovers data from it. It can restore photos from hard drives in all data loss situations. Read more. It also recovers media files from formatted partitions after re-installing Windows. The application can easily recover deleted images from MMC card, CF card, SD card and many more. You might have deleted the photos from the Recycle Bin by mistake. You might have deleted the photos instead of restoring them back. In such situstion, you can restore photos from Recycle Bin using the software. Go through https://www.digitalphotorecovery.org/recycle-bin.html to know the complete process.

You can follow some simple steps given below, to successfully recover photos from CF card

Step 1: Connect the CF memory card via a memroy card reader to a healthy PC or laptop on which the Digital Photo Recovery Software has already been installed. Launch the application by double clicking the desktop shortcut icon or selecting it from the Programs Menu. The main window appears, select the "Recover Photos" option as shown in Figure 1

Figure 1. Main Window

Step 2: : On the next window you will find "Recover Deleted Photos" and "Recover Lost Photos". Select "Recover Lost Photos" which allows you to select the drive or partition as displayed in Figure 2

Figure 2: Recover Lost Photos

Step 3: Select the CF memory card which is displayed as a logical drive to recover digital photos, office files, videos and music as shown in Figure 3

Figure 3. Select Logical Drive (CF Memory card)

Step 4: The software allows you to select the image file types that are listed, based on their unique signatures or you can either use "Skip" option to skip this step and proceed with the scanning process as shown in Figure 4

Figure 4. Select Picture File Type

Step 5: Once the scanning process is completed, the recovered photos are displayed and can be viewed in either "Data View" or the "File Type View" as shown in Figure 5

Figure 5. View Recovered photos

Step 6: The "Preview" option helps you to preview the recovered photos which helps you to evaluate the capability of the software as shown in Figure 7

Figure 6. Preview Pictures