Monday, 25 February 2013

How to protect photo loss from memory card?

Memory cards has different storage sizes and varieties. The most common types are SD, SDHC, CF, XD Picture, MMC, smart media and memory sticks. All types of memory cards has different capacity and range which determine how capable is the memory card for the storage of the data on it. Be sure to check out the storing capacity of the card before purchasing. Mostly we use the memory card in phones, iPods and Cameras. I recommend SanDisk brand which have proved to be very reliable. I use the SanDisk memory card for my camera and mobile phone as well.

Memory cards are relatively cost effective and cheap. Data which is stored in the memory card is always precious and no one can tolerate the data lose from memory card. So to avoid this type of situations of data loss lets read more on this topic.

This topic will help you to save yourself from uncertain data loss.

Here are some tips for minimizing the risk of your memory card photos and other multimedia files loss.

1. Make sure your camera battery is fully charged and have a spare battery if possible. If you will use your card with low battery then it can cause memory card corruption or some files are not saved on the memory card

2. Try not to completely fill the memory card. If the card gets nearly full this could cause the camera to write over existing files and you can lost your previous photos.

3. Do not touch the metal part of your memory card. This can cause problem with your data stored on the memory card. Sometimes completely damage your memory card.

4. Be careful with the Delete All and Format options in the camera. One click can remove all the photos from your card

5. Always format the memory card in your camera each time when you are going to take some new photos on it.

6. Do not remove the memory card while the camera is still on or saving mode.

7. Try to use the memory card in the single device instead of using it with different devices. Because every device has its own file format and can change the format of your previous files. If you want to use your card with other device, firstly save all the files onto the computer and format the memory card and then use that.

8. Use a good quality card reader always.

9. If you have a problem with the memory card, stop using it immediately. Do not take more photos, reformat it or try to delete the photos. Use a photo Recovery software to try to recover the lost photos.


These points will help you to recover your lost / deleted photos from memory card. It is good practice to create backup after every photo session in a CD or DVD to avoid any photo loss.

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

How to Prevent & Recover Lost Photos from External Storage Device

It is helpless situation once you experience that your precious photos got deleted from external storage devices. So in such condition what will be your first approach?

Let me guess…..!! It must be to reboot the camera and find the photos once again or you may try to connect the external storage device such as memory card, USB drive or external hard drive etc to laptop just with the hope to see the photos again in the drive. Isn’t?

Sometime if you are lucky then you may have possibility to see those photos again but most of the time your luck hardly work.

In such condition as human being you can lose your temper and get angry easily. I would like to recommend you not to lose your temper and read the solution here which I am going to share with you.

Here are some methods to recover lost photos from external storage devices which you can try yourself.

We need not to worry about the photo loss caused by accidental deletion or formatting memory card. To prevent the photo loss you need to follow these steps:
  • Create a system image once a week when your computer is running well to ensure you have files backed up elsewhere.
  • Consider using the cloud for work Google Docs has a function that works every few seconds.
  • If your edition of Windows includes the Back Up File Wizard, use it.
  • Use a third party backup program if you don't like the Windows version.
  • Save important photos and video files onto a CD/DVD, a flash drive, or a removable hard drive.
On the other hand if you are unable to backup and lost all your important photos and video files, then there is another solution to recover photos. This way is very secure and easy to recover deleted photos. We can use photo recovery software to recover lost photos from any external storage device like memory card, external hard drive and USB drive. The important point which comes here that there should not be any editing or overwriting done on damaged external derives. Once you overwrite anything then it is hard to recover the original photos.

The best way is to select photo recovery software to recover lost photos and video files. There are so many photo recovery software on the internet, but generally we should consider whether it is reliable or not. You also need to check whether selected software can recover photos from external device like memory card, flash drive and external hard drive though these software or not?

The efficient photo recovery software works in the unique way to recover lost photos and other multimedia files too.

Here are some points that must be considered while selecting a photo recovery software:
  1. Recovery from all camera brands
  2. Lost photos from backup
  3. Recovery from external storage media
  4. Recovery from mobile phones and iPods
  5. Recovery from corrupt or formatted SD cards
The above steps are fruitful to recover your lost photos from external storage devices. It is less time taking and affordable too. This way you can not only recover the photo but you can also help your friends and family members to recover the lost photo. They will surly appreciate you by seeing that you have sound knowledge of photo recovery.

Little more on photo recovery software i.e. the software provides the different recovery option for the Mac and Windows operating system too. The smart thing is to know the recovery procedure is same for Mac as well as for windows. Once you try it you will realize yourself this is very user friendly and easy to use.

Monday, 18 February 2013

How to Recover Photos and Video Files from Mac OS


Photos and video files are very important data for everyone. It is common that we click photos and videos from digital camera and save it at desire location in the hard drive, So that we can watch these photos again and again in future. But what should we do if we have lost all our photos and unable to access photos from saved location.

It is very important to make that photos and video files safe. There are many situations in which your photos and video files can loss from your Mac computer.

  1. Formatting of the computer hard drive
  2. Memory card is not removed properly
  3. System crashed
  4. Virus attack
  5. Files are not copied to hard drive properly

To avoid this type of photo loss situations you can save backup of all your important photos and video files so that In future you are able to recover them. Another smart way to recover deleted photo is to create a backup CD of important photos.

If you are unable to recover your corrupted photos and video files then you can try Mac photo recovery software. Most of the software supports the Mac as well as Windows operating systems. A good Mac Photo recovery software support various file format like PEG, Exif, RAW, GIF, JPG, BMP, PGM, PNM, PBM, CD5, NFF, PNG, TIF and TIFF) and recovery options. Before buying Mac photo recovery software you can download the demo version and check to test the capabilities of the software in recovering files from Mac operating systems. Once you confirmed and able to see the preview of your recovered photo then you can register to get the licence version. I am sharing some important facts which can help you understand the feature of this software so that you can select Mac photo recovery software:-

1. Recover deleted, formatted and corrupt files from Mac operating system
2. Able to recover all types of latest file format of photos and video files
3. Make a preview of the recovered files
4. Work in the efficient way to recover files
5. Must be cost-effective
6. Must have a demo version for the preview

So above points give us awareness and make it easy to select good Mac photo recovery software. Download and run the software for the photos and video files recovery. It will take few minutes to scan the computer for the deleted photos (depend upon the size of the hard drive).

Monday, 11 February 2013

Easy Tips to Recover Deleted Photos from iPhone


iPhone is very popular among peoples and maximum people like to save their important data like photos videos and music files on it. All these data which is saved in the memory card is very precious and no one can afford loosing such precious data. Sometime just to get more space in memory card we delete the unwanted photos. While deleting photos from memory card if we do it carelessly then loosing of data can take place which can be the worst thing. Imagine you have saved your birthday photos on your iPhone and you accidentally lost the photos? Then what you will do to recover your important photos and videos?

In such condition it is very important for you to know how you can recover the lost photos? Now with advance technology it is very easy to take a backup of data. iPhone has such option to keep the back of your data. On the other hand if your have iPhone has not any backup to recover your lost data. Then try a recovery software. This type of software are easily available on the internet. By using photo recovery software you can recover your deleted photos from iPhone.

How to choose good software for recovery:--
Find out good photo recovery software that supports the iPhone recovery. Check out the reviews of the software. There are some features of good software like:-
1. Support various file formats.
2. User-friendly and easy to use.
3. Generate a preview of the recovered files.
4. Advance search options.
5. Demo version to check the preview of the recovered files.

These are the some points to checkout about the software before going to purchase it.


1. Download the Software: -- After checking all features download the software into your computer. Follow the steps to install the software. After successful installation your demo software is ready to recover files.


2. Connect iPhone to your computer: -- Connect the iPhone to computer and select the removable media to detect your photos, videos and audio files. Instead of selecting whole area of the drive select the part of the memory space from where you have to recover the data. This will save your time.


3. Scan the iPhone: -- After selecting the area for the recovery, run the scan. Scanning will take few minutes depend upon the memory space selected for the scanning. If you want to save time, select the proper area from where you want to scan. After the complete scan software will generate a preview of the recovered files.

4. Choose the files and save them into the Hard Drive:--Select the files from the preview and save them to the new place into the computer make a new folder in the hard drive and save all the files into it. This is like you are making a backup folder for the future references. This software is easy to use and works in the use-friendly environment.

By following these steps you can easily recover deleted photos from iPhone and save them into your computer hard drive. 

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Three quick steps to Recover Deleted Photos from SD Cards

Digital cameras and Mobile phones use the different memory cards to store the photos, video and audio files. There are different brands available for memory cards in the market such as SD, XD and CF cards. We can store huge amount of data on a single slot in Memory cards. Apart from storing photos we can also store music, video and data files in it. SD Cards used in the Camera, Phone, MP3 player, iPod and iPhone.

SD card is the Secured Digital which used in the cameras to store the photos. Memory cards are available in different sizes and models. If you mistakenly deleted all your photographs from the SD card, you don't need to panic. There is a way to recover all your deleted photos from the SD card.

Here are some points by which you can recover the photos from your SD Card.

1. Choose good SD Card Recovery Software: There are many software tools available and most of them have demo version. Most of them are cheap. Check a good SD Card Recovery Software from internet. Before downloading, check the software if it work for the memory card or not. Try to download a  software.


2. Install the software and connect your SD card to system: Once you have downloaded the Demo version, install the software in your computer. You have to follow some simple instruction to install the software. It will hardly take 2 minutes to install it. Now connect your SD card with the card reader. Now connect the card reader with the computer and check whether SD Card is properly attached with the computer or not.


3. Launch the software and scan SD card for photos: In this step launch the software and select the SD card attached with the computer. After selecting the memory card click on the scan button, software will start searching for the deleted photos on SD card. The scanning will take few minutes depend upon the size of the SD Card. Software scan SD Card for all the deleted files. Software will show you preview recovered files. Select the
files and save them to the new folder in the hard drive.


Photo recovery software is a powerful tool for recovering deleted photos from digital cameras, memory cards and flash drives. It supports almost all image formats. It can also recover various types of audio and video files. You can select file type before scanning to save time. User interface is efficient and clearly explained. 

Monday, 4 February 2013

Tips to recover deleted photos and video files from memory card

Everyone has a Digital Camera allowing them to click and record those wonderful moments. A memory card or flash card is an electronic flash memory data storage device used for storing photos, videos, and music, data files. They are commonly used in many electronic devices like cameras, iPods, MP3 player and mobile phones.

There is always a big question to know whether we can recover photos and video from a memory card or not? Also how to recover those photos which we have deleted or may got deleted accidentally from memory card?

For such question the answer to both is “yes, it is possible to recover photos and video files from memory card”. When you lost or deleted photos from memory card, you can recover them easily.

Let me explain how you can recover data from memory card. Actually whenever you delete the data from memory card that time it never gets totally deleted from it, However until that space is overwritten by new data file old data file is still there and can easily be recovered provided by using a good recovery tool to recover lost data from memory card. It doesn't actually get permanently deleted. However until that space is overwritten by new data file old data file is still there and can easily be recovered provided by using a good recovery tool.

Here are some tips to recover deleted photos and video files from memory card:-

Step 1: Immediately stop using the memory card: Once the photos are deleted from memory card; don't try to occupy that space from some other photos or video files. Stop using your memory card for more photos and video files. This will overwrite on the deleted files and chances of recovering photos will be less.



Step 2: Choose Memory Card Recovery Software: To recover lost photos, you need to use memory card recovery software. First see if this software is compatible with your device or not. Most of the software supports the memory cards like memory stick, flash cards, digital cards, MMC Cards, SD Cards. The second is that memory card recovery software should be capable of recovering deleted or lost photos from memory card.


Step 3: Launch the Software to Perform the Photo Recovery Process

Once you have selected the memory card recovery software perform the recovery process. Most of the software are user friendly and easy to use and follow the simple process to recover photos and other lost or deleted files.

Connect the memory card with the computer and launch the software. Scan the whole card with the software for the files. You can see the preview of all the recoverable photos and video files. Select the files and store them to the new folder in the hard drive of your computer.

So by following the above three simple steps you can easily recover your photos and video files from memory card.