Nowadays, more and more people are using digital cameras for capturing some of their most valuable moments in life. Losing any of these photos, is highly disturbing to the user.

The useful, but dangerous delete button present in digital cameras is responsible for majority of the data loss. The situation in which, a user accidentally clicks the delete button, and ends up deleting the image file, is a common occurrence.However, there are other reasons due to which, the image files might get deleted/lost.

Other common reasons for the loss/deletion of image files are:

1. Accidental formatting of the  memory card that holds the image files.
2. Memory card or hard drive corruption.
3. Interface, or file transfer errors.

The most common question that comes to any user’s mind, under such a situation is,“Is it possible to recover those photos which were accidentally deleted?” .

Yes!, lost or deleted digital photos can be recovered.When a file is deleted, only the file table entry of that file is deleted, and not the file as a whole. Hence, photo recovery is possible, provided you take certain precautions,

• Avoid taking any more pictures with the memory card from which you want to recover the data.

• Remove the memory card from your digital camera, and secure it in a safe place.This avoids further usage of the memory card, hence, increasing the chances of photo recovery.

REMO Recover  (Windows) Media Edition software lets you recover lost digital photos, audio and video files from memory cards, USB drives and other flash memory storage devices. It’s highly advanced scanning algorithm helps in recovering image, audio and video files of all major file formats, including, various RAW photographic file formats used in professional digital cameras.

Follow the simple steps given below, to recover lost/deleted image files from your digital camera.

Step  to recover lost/ deleted digital photo(s) using REMO Recover  (Windows) Media Edition:

Step 1: Download and install the REMO Recover  (Windows) Media Edition software on your PC. Connect the memory card from which, the  lost/ deleted photo has to be recovered, to your PC  using a  a memory card reader.

Note: The memory card must get detected by your PC, as soon as it is connected. If it fails, to get detected, try connecting it to another PC, and check if it is getting detected. This is done in order to make sure, that the memory card does not have any physical damage.

Step 2: Run the application by double clicking the desktop icon,or by selecting the icon from the Programs list in the Start Menu. The Main window pops up as shown in Figure a.

Figure a:  Main Window

Step 3: Click on the button. A new window is displayed as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Select the drive/memory card

Step 5: Select the drive/memory card which contains the  lost / deleted data that needs to be recovered and click on the button.

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

Step 6: As you click on the Next Button, a new window is displayed to select the required file types  you wish to recover as shown in Figure c. You can select the specific file types you wish to recover,  or click on the button, to select all the file types, and click on the button, to proceed to the next step.

Figure c: Select file types

Step 7: As you click  the Next button, the program starts scanning the selected drive for 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 displayed in tree format

Step 8: After scanning, the next and final step in the recovery process, is to restore the found data to a safe location. Select the files you wish to recover, or click the Root folder, to select all the files, and click the button.

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

As you click the Save button, a window to select destination drive, is displayed as shown in Figure e.

Figure e: Select destination drive

Step 9: Select the destination drive, where you would like to save the recovered data, and click on the OK button .

If you want to save your data in a compressed format, then select the Compress Data option and click on OK button. As soon as you click the OK button, the program starts saving the data to the selected destination drive. Once the saving process is complete, the application will pop up a message, intimating the same.

All the data will be saved into a new folder, by name “RemoRecoverPhotoxx xx xx* ” in the specified destination drive.

Important Note:

• You can preview the file before recovery, by 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 can recover it.
• A Save Scan Information option is provided, so that you can save the complete Scan Information. You can select this option, by clicking the   button.This Save Scan Information feature helps to re-load the recovered data tree from a previous scan. This feature comes in handy when you are evaluating the Trial version. The Save Scan Information can be used in the Full Version, to recover data without rescanning the whole drive again.

Important: Never copy / save anything onto the drive from which, data is being recovered. This may cause overwriting of the data that is being recovered, resulting in permanent  loss of data.

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