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Recover Digital Photos from SD Cards
Have you deleted, lost photos from your SD card? Digital Photo Recovery software makes SD card recovery an easy task
Use Digital Photo Recovery software to recover deleted/lost photos from SD cards on Mac and Windows
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Recover digital photos from SD card
The Secure Digital card, commonly called the SD card is the most widely used flash storage media in most of the digital cameras that are used today. These flash memory cards are varied in nature depending on the storage capacity which ranges from a few MB to a few GB, and the different makes like Transcend, Kingston etc. It is highly resourceful due to its small size and the ease with which you can transfer data between different storage devices. Though this is a highly useful storage media, but it is not fail proof against common data loss scenarios.
The most common way in which photos get lost from an SD card is when the SD card is unplugged from the PC or the camera in an improper manner. The photo loss occurs, when the SD card is removed from the card reader without disconnecting the memory card correctly from the PC. The other common way in which photos are lost from the SD card, is when the SD card is formatted accidentally.
The best way to avoid further damage, in both the cases is to stop further usage of the SD card. This is highly beneficial, since there is little scope for overwriting of the deleted data, if further usage of the SD card is avoided. You can consequently remove the SD card from the digital camera, seal it and store it in a moisture free environment. The next best thing to do, is to download a good photo recovery software, and recover all your lost photos from the SD card. Digital Photo Recovery software lets you recover deleted, lost photos from IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, SD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives, FireWire and USB hard drives.
You can follow the steps given below, to successfully recover all the accidentally deleted photos from the SD card.
Step 1: Take out the memory card from the camera, and connect it to a healthy PC where the software has already been installed using a memory card reader. Run Photo Recovery software (Mac) by selecting it from the application folder. The main window pops up as shown in Figure a.
Figure a: Main window
Step 2: The local and the external drives that get detected, are displayed as shown in the figure. Select the hard drive that you connected as slave, and click on the Next button to go to the next step, as shown in Figure b.
Figure b: Select Drive
Step 3: On clicking the Next button, a new screen pops up, as shown Figure c. The various types of photo files, audio files, and video files are displayed, as shown in the figure below. You can select specifically, the file types that you wish to recover, or select all the file types, if you wish to recover all the media files, depending on your requirement.
Figure c: Select file type
Note: By default, all the photo, audio and video files are selected for recovery. You can disable this feature, by clicking the Deselect all button.
Step 4: After selecting the file types that you want to recover, click the Recover button, to start the recovery process. A new window displays the progress made in the recovery process, and also lists the number of files that have been found, as shown in Figure d.
You can use the Show selected file types option, to view the file types you selected in the previous step.
Figure d: Progress bar
Step 5: Once the scanning process gets completed, the recovered media files are grouped together and listed in their respective folders as shown in Figure e. Clicking any of the listed folder displays, the recovered files of the respective file type, under that folder, as shown in the figure.
Figure e: Found files and folders
Step 6: Once the files are recovered, you can select a particular file of your choice, and click on the View button, to preview the image, as shown in Figure f.
Figure f: Preview
Step 7: The last step is to save all the recovered media files onto a destination drive. You can select specific files for saving, or, click on the Select All button, to select all the files that have been recovered.
Click the Save button, and select the destination drive, onto which you want the recovered files to be saved. You can also use the Save scan info button to save information about that particular scan task.
