Recover JPG Image Files

People often take photos to keep the precious time as their memory when they became old. People use digital cameras or similar device for taking photos. As the growth in the technology, the method of taking and types of photos is also changed. Unlike the olden days where the pictures are saved on printing paper, now they are stored in different digital types commonly called as RAW files. JPG or JPEG, is one such format that stores captured photos on storage media. Hence JPG (also known as JPEG) files are handy way of storing images digitally on storage drives like digital camera flash memory cards, iPods, hard drives, external USB drives, etc. Moreover JPG/JPEG is one of the popular image file format that is supported by digital devices and even by World Wide Web and usually stored with extension “.jpg”.

However, sometimes users may encounter a situation which will make them feel uneasy, even get annoyed for losing some precious JPG files due to accidental format, deletion or other reasons from storage media. If you are not aware about JPG recovery, the loss of JPG files will make you terribly sad; but you will be tension free if you get to know about the way of recovering JPG files after the data loss. Don’t worry, here is one expert solution named picture recovery software to rescue and get back digital image from a camera or secondary storage drive in a safe way without affecting their file structure during the recovery.

Scenarios accountable for loss of JPG photos are:

• Inadvertent Deletion of JPG files: There are possibilities of deleting JPG image files from camera by hitting on Delete All button while previewing photos or through the use of “Shift+Delete” keys from your computer.
• Formatting the drive on the computer: Many times you might be encountered with error message like “Drive X: is not formatted, Do you want to format it now” when you connect the drive containing JPG image files to computer for file transfer. If you press on Format option, then entire drive will be formatted and JPG files stored on drive will be lost.
• Unintentional formatting on Camera: Digital cameras provide “Format” option to format the memory card. While finding some files in your camera, if you click on the Format button by chance then all the JPG pictures will be deleted and results in data loss.
• Inaccessible JPEG files due to corruption: Sometimes the system shows the drive as empty even though it has stored lots of photos or you may not be able to open pictures and get error messages informing that you cannot access the files or images that are present on the drive. JPG files become unreadable because of the corruption of storage drive due to file system corruption, virus infections, formatting errors, wrong operations, etc.

What if you face loss of JPG image files due to any of the above reasons without a backup??? Most of the people still believe that JPG pictures can not be recoverable and they lost them forever…… But now this theory no longer holds true and you have reasons to get relax as photo recovery software can help you in restoring back your JPG photos. This tool has easy to use interface that recovers lost/deleted JPG files from digital camera memory card or other storage media after data loss. You can successfully retrieve digital photos on Windows 7, Xp, Vista, Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems. Visit this link to perform recovery on Windows operating system.

Important features of photo recovery software

Photo recovery software is built with powerful algorithms to scan and retrieve JPG files from a variety of storage media like digital cameras, hard drives, flash drives and mobile phones. After the JPG recovery, you can preview the desired JPG images and can use Find tool for searching particular files using its extension (i.e .jpg). Together with JPG files, it can also get back TIFF, TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF and PSD picture formats and it supports deleted picture recovery from memory card including SD card, XD card, SDHC card, CF card, MMC and Memory Sticks used in digital cameras. This tool can be used to perform file recovery from all trusted brands of memory card like Transcend, SanDisk, Kingston, Lexar, Sony, Samsung, etc.

Along with digital photos, you can do recovery of videos and music files from various storage drive to bring back videos and audio files after an unexpected data loss. This is rated as finest photo recovery software for digital camera to recover RAW images from all famous brands of DSLR cameras. For an example, it will effectively recover CR2 and CRW RAW files from Canon digital camera (Read more), ARW & SR2 from Sony, NEF for Nikon, ORF from Olympus,  KDC, K25  & DCR from Kodak, DNG from Samsung, X3F from Sigma, PEF from Pentax, RAF from FujiFilm, RAW from Panasonic and so on. It can also be utilized to recover digital images from any storage media on Mac machines installed with any of latest Mac OS X operating systems (Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion).

Follow the simple steps to restore lost JPG image files:

Step 1: Install photo recovery software on a healthy computer / laptop and connect the drive to it with a USB cable or the card slot in the laptop. Launch the application by double clicking the shortcut on the desktop or selecting it from the Program Menu. As the main window appears click on the "Recover Photos" option to continue 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" to get back lost JPG photos files as displayed in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Recover Lost Photos

Step 3: After selecting the option, the memory card file recovery software will lead you to a window displaying list of connected physical and logical drives as shown in Figure 3. If the required drive/partition is not visible in the list, click on "Reload Drives" option. Select the drive to restore JPG files deleted/lost from it and click on "Next" to continue.

Figure 3: Select Storage Drive

Step 4: The unique signature search can also be performed by selecting the required photo, video, audio and digital RAW image formats as shown in Figure 4 displayed below. This scanning process can also be skipped by clicking the "Skip" option.

Figure 4: Select JPG File Types

Step 5: The application starts the scanning process on the selected drive once you click "Next" or the "Skip" button. The percentage of scanning process along with the Start time, Elapsed time is displayed while scanning as shown in Figure 5

Figure 5: Scanning Process

Step 6: As the scanning completes the recovered media files are displayed. The "Data View" or the "File Type View" option allows you to view the restored files as shown in Figure 6

Figure 6: List of Recovered JPG Files

Step 7: The software allows you to preview the recovered JPG or other media files using "Preview" option as shown in Figure 7

Figure 7: Preview Recovered Photos