While transferring recently recorded videos to my laptop, my son accidentally ejected the memory card. When I reinserted it, I was surprised to see, that all the video files in it had disappeared. I really need those videos, how do I recover them?

The situation of data loss can happen to all category of users ranging from general users to professional users. The type of data lost could be textual data or a media file.In any case, it is important to stay calm and not to panic.

Safety first!

Before, you start using the software, there are some precautionary measures that need to be taken, to avoid further loss of data.

• The first thing to do, is to stop using the memory card. Make sure that you do not save any new data onto it, as this may lead to a more critical situation, making it impossible to recover the lost videos.
• Do not try to format the drive, as some firmware are designed to wipe out the data completely beyond recovery.
• It is suggested that you avoid using any disk management utility, as this might lead to loss of data.

REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software is competent of recovering deleted files, lost digital photos, audio and video files from camera memory cards, USB drives and other flash memory storage devices. The software is available in two versions based on the operating systems it supports – Windows and Macintosh.

REMO Recover (Windows)  Media Edition software lets you recover lost/deleted video files in different formats like mp4, mpg, mov and avi.You simply need to connect the external storage media to your computer, and make sure that the memory card is accessed like a removable hard drive.Try it now!

You can follow the simple steps given below, to use the software to the fullest, and recover all your lost video files.

Simple steps  to recover video file by using REMO Recover (Windows)  Media Edition:

Step 1: Download and install REMO Recover (Windows)  Media Edition.

Step 2: Connect the memory card which contains the lost video files using a memory card reader to the PC where,  REMO Recover (Windows)  Media Edition software is installed.

Step 3: Run REMO Recover (Windows)  Media Edition. The application main window will appear as shown in Figure a. Select the Recover Photo option, to proceed to the next step.

Figure a: Program main window

Step 4: REMO Recover (Windows)  Media Edition software displays the physical drives that are connected to your PC. Select the drive from which, you wish to recover the  lost/deleted video files, and click on the Next button, as shown in figure b.

Figure b: Select drive

Step 5: Select the video file types you wish to recover and click the Next button. However, you can select all the file types by clicking the Select All button, as shown in figure c.

Figure c: Select file type

Step 6: As you click the Next button, the software commences the scanning process as shown in Figure d. The scan might take several seconds to  few hours, depending on the file types you have selected. The application scans the entire storage media to locate the lost/deleted video files.

Figure d: Scanning progress

Step 7: After the scanning process is complete, the application lists all the found files in a tree format, grouped according to their file types, as shown in Figure e.

Figure e: Found files and folders

Step 8: The final step in the recovery process, is to save the recovered files. You can select to save a particular set of video files, by clicking the appropriate files, or click on the root folder, to save all the found video files. To save the selected files, click the save button. A window to select the destination drive  is displayed as shown in Figure f.

Figure f: Select destination drive

Specify the destination drive, check if you want to save the data in a compressed form by selecting the Compress Data option,and click on the OK button. The program saves 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.

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