I was messing around with my camera and accidentally pressed the format button. All my pictures are gone. Can I recover pictures even after format? I deleted the pictures, but I guess the data is not lost completely? Is it possible to undelete photos from my formatted SD Card?

SD cards are very much similar to your regular hard drive,and hence they are as likely to be corrupted, damaged or lose data, as you would with the  regular hard drive. If you have intentionally, or by mistake formatted your SD card, your deleted pictures will still exist on your memory card, and can be retrieved using a recovery software.

What happens when you format a SD card, or delete pictures from it?

Image files occupy a given disk space on the SD card. When you format the card, the disk space on which the images are stored is not deleted, instead they are now marked as free space, so that new data can written onto that disk space. This is why the deleted images will no longer be accessible by your camera, even though the image is still present on your SD card.

REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software, can easily locate those deleted/lost pictures and recover them completely. It can recover data from SD, xD, MMC and other flash memory storage devices.The software lets you recover images in basic formats like, jpg, jpeg, tif, tiff, png etc., and RAW photos in special formats like, CRW, CR2, SR2, SRF, etc. The software also lets you recover music and video files in various formats. Try it Now!

Step by Step process to photo recovery

Step 1: Download and install REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software on your PC.Connect your digital camera to the PC, or insert your SD card into a card reader and then connect it to the PC.

Step 2: Make sure that the SD card gets detected on your PC, when you connect it to the PC. This will ensure, that the memory card, card reader, and USB port have no physical damage. If the memory card is not detected on your PC, try connecting it to USB ports on a different PC.

Once the memory card is detected, avoid performing any further read or write operations on that SD card.

Step 3: 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.Click on the Recover Photo button.

Figure a: Main window

Step 4: Once you click the Recover Photo button, a new window is displayed, as shown in Figure b.The new window displays all the detected physical drives in your PC.

Select the Removable Disk  that is displayed, and click on the Next button, as shown in figure b.

Note: If the drive you are looking for is not displayed in the list of drives, then click on the Refresh Drives button.This will display the recently connected drives on your PC.

Figure b: Select drive

Step 5: As soon as you click the Next button, a new window displaying the various file types that can be recovered,is displayed, as shown in Figure c.

Select the file types you wish to recover, by selecting a particular file type, or click on the Select All button to select all the file types, and click on the Next button.

Figure c: Select file types

As you click on the Next button, the application starts scanning the selected drive for the specified file types, and lists all the found files and folders in a tree format, grouped according to their file types, as shown in Figure d.

Figure d: Found files and folders

Step 6: Select the files you wish to recover, or click on the Root folder to select all the files, and click on the Save button. As you click on the Save button, a window to select the destination drive, to save your data is displayed, as shown in Figure e.

Figure e: Select destination drive

Select the destination drive and click on the OK button. You can choose to save your data in a compressed format, by selecting the Compress Data option, as shown in Figure e.

As soon as you click the OK button, the application 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 in a new folder by name “RemoRecoverPhotoxx xx xx* ” in the specified destination drive.

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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