I accidentally pulled my flash drive out of the PC (Windows XP Pro), before I copied the files onto the PC. Every time I try to access it, it asks if I want to format it. I also noticed, that the drive is marked as “RAW”. I know, that formatting, will erase all the data on it. Suggest me on how to recover my photos from the flash drive, without formatting it?

No need to panic. This is a common, yet frightening situation faced by most digital camera users. You can easily retrieve the photos from your flash drive, provided, you avoid performing any further Read/Write operations on that flash drive.This will ensure, that the lost data is not overwritten by new data, resulting in permanent erasure of data.

REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software recovers media files of all well known formats including JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF, and also RAW photographic files in CRW, CR2, NEF, ORF, SR2, SRF and MRW formats, using advanced signature search algorithm.It can recover lost digital photos, audio and video files from camera memory cards, USB drives and other flash memory storage devices.Try it Now!

To ascertain if there is any physical issue, try these connecting options, before you use the software:

1. If the flash drive you are using, is not detected on your PC, try connecting it to another PC,  just to be sure that the USB ports on your PC are not faulty.
2. If you are using a removable flash media, try connecting it to another PC with a card reader, just to be sure that the cord or device you are using is not faulty.

Photo recovery from a flash drive, using REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software

Follow the steps given below, to successfully recover all your lost photos from the flash drive,

Step 1:Launch the application, either by double clicking the desktop shortcut, or by selecting the icon from the Programs list in the Start Menu. The Main window pops up, as shown in figure a. Select the Recover Photo option.

Figure a: Main window

Step 2: As you click the Recover Photo button, a new window displays all the physical drives detected on the PC,as shown in Figure b. Select the physical drive from which you want to recover the data, and click on the Next button.

Figure b: Select physical drive

Note: If the drive you are looking for is not listed in the list of drives, then click on the Refresh Drives button. This will detect recently connected drives, and display it in the list of drives in the window.

Step 3: When you click the Next button, the software displays a window, to select the file types you wish to recover, as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Select file types

Step 4: Select the file types you wish to recover, or click on the Select All button, to select all the file types, and click on the Next button. As you click the Next button, the application starts scanning the selected drive for the specified file types, and lists all the found files in a tree format grouped according to their file types, as shown in Figure d.

Figure d: Found files and folders

Step 5: After scanning, the next and final step in the recovery process is to save the found data onto a safe location. Select the data you wish to recover or click on the Root folder to select all the data, and click on the Save button. As you click the Save button, a window to select the destination drive to save the data, is displayed, as shown in Figure e.

Figure e: Select destination drive

Select the destination drive,and click on the OK button.

Note: Select the Compress Data option, if you want to save the data in a compressed format.

Step 6: As soon as you click the OK button, the software starts saving the data to the selected destination drive, and will pop up a message, once saving is completed, intimating the same. All the data will be saved into a new folder by name “RemoRecoverPhotoxx xx xx* ” in the specified destination drive.

Note: You can preview the file before it could be recovered using the Preview option. To preview the file, double click on the file whose preview is to be seen. This will display the preview of the file before you could recover it.

Note: The Save option is disabled in the Demo Version of the software. You can only Preview the files in the Demo Version. The Save option gets enabled, once you buy the Full Version of the software. Buy Now!

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