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.