Recover Deleted Files from Windows XP

The most common reason for deletion of files on Windows XP based computer is the accidental deletion by the user while accessing the data. You may also face this situation wherein, you might have used “Shift+Delete” key combination to delete some of the files thinking them as unwanted, only to realize later that the deleted files were actually very critical for you. But the problem is that once files are deleted in this manner, they will bypass the recycle bin of Windows XP operating system, in other words, will not get stored in it. It is a widely known fact that files bypassing recycle bin cannot be restored back without using any recovery software. To help needy users in such a miserable instance, we have developed a Windows deleted file recovery software that can prominently restore data on Windows XP operating system.

This recovery software has received numerous accolades from several recovery organizations & professionals for its ability to completely restore deleted & lost files from computer hard drive and other storage devices. The software will first search for deleted files & folders in the selected hard disk partition and after the accomplishment of scanning process, it recovers a wide variety of file formats of music & video files, picture files, documents, spreadsheets, etc with an assistance of sophisticated file signature search option. It can efficiently perform recovery of JPG files along with other photo formats like JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, etc.

After the recovery of files on Windows XP, this tool facilitates you to preview the retrieved data to check its efficiency before purchasing the registered version. As mentioned earlier, this tool can perform deleted files recovery on different types of storage devices including external hard drive, FireWire drive, USB drive, various kinds of memory cards, etc. You can utilize this software to effortlessly retrieve photo from memory card after it gets deleted either on a computer or a digital camera to which the card is connected.

Apart from accidental deletion, this software can retrieve files deleted or lost in many other scenarios. When your Windows XP based computer hard drive is affected by the virus invasion from other storage drives, there are possibilities of a partition becoming inaccessible due to corruption in MBR or a damage to the file system. To make a partition accessible, you need to format it using a Windows disk management utility. Once you format the partition, entire data stored on it will get deleted if you have not taken a backup before formatting. The software has the potential to recover files from partition on Windows XP operating system. You may also lose data for system crash. The system may crash due to viruses, OS malfunctioning, power surges, etc. In such circumstances, you can use the software for restoring lost files after system crash that may happen due to corrupt system files or when Windows XP operating system fails to load on your computer.

If you need to recover deleted files from Windows XP, follow these steps mentioned below:

Step I: Choose “Recover Files” on the welcome screen, as illustrated in Fig I. Then, select “Recover Deleted Files” option.

Recover Deleted Files from Windows XP - Main Window

Fig I: Main Screen

Step II: Choose a partition to recover deleted files and click “Next”, as illustrated in Fig II.

Recover Deleted Files from Windows XP - Select an appropriate partition

Fig II: Choose a Partition to Recover

Step III: From a list of recovered files shown in Fig III, right-click any file to “Preview” it for checking the efficiency of this tool.

Recover Deleted Files from Windows XP - Recovered Files List

Fig III: List of Retrieved Files

Recover files from formatted Mac volumes

You may format your Mac volume due to many factors that may include physical damage like bad sectors and logical problems like corruptions on your Mac computer. However, when you format a volume, all the files residing on it get deleted. To get back these deleted files, you need to perform Mac file recovery by making use of our best Mac file recovery software that is compatible with Mac OS X Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard, etc . The software performs rigorous scanning of your formatted Mac volume and with the assistance of built-in recovery techniques, it restores the deleted as well as lost files from it.

This software has a module called “Formatted/Reformatted Recovery” that specializes in the recovery of files from Mac volumes that are either formatted, reformatted or repartitioned in order to resize the volumes on your Mac computer. The file type signature search option provided by this award-winning recovery tool helps to perform JPG file recovery & restoration of various other formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc and also the raw image formats such as CR2, CRW, ARW, SR2, RAF, NEF, X3F and many more formats. There are various scenarios in which you can opt for this recovery software to recover files & folders. You can utilize this tool when the Catalog file gets corrupted due to some unforeseen reasons and makes a Mac volume inaccessible to use. In such a case, you have to format the volume, which eventually results in a huge loss of data from the formatted Mac volume.

Mac users often face the problem of corrupt data due to Input & Output errors that are encountered as a result of logical errors or some sort of problem in physical part of the volume. If the corruption is severe, it may result in a damage to the file system of the Mac volume, which in turn leads to volume getting damagedThe problem with such scenarios is that if you do not format the volume, you will not be able to access it and if the volume is formatted, entire data will get deleted. To get rid of such problems, you can comfortably utilize our Mac file recovery tool after formatting the corrupt Mac volume to retrieve files from failed hard drive.

In addition to Mac hard drives, you can make use of the software on various external storage devices for file recovery. It can undelete files from external hard drive, different type of memory cards, USB flash drives, FireWire drives and can also recover photos from iPhoto library when images get deleted accidentally from it.

Mentioned below are the steps that will guide you to recover files from formatted Mac volumes:

Step I: On the welcome screen of the software, choose “Recover Partitions/Drives” and later select “Formatted/Reformatted Recovery” option on the next window, as illustrated in Fig I.

Recover files from formatted mac volumes - Select Recover Partition/Drives

Step II: From a list of physical drives, select the formatted Mac volume to recover files and click “Next” as illustrated in Fig II.

Recover files from formatted mac volumes - Select Formatted Mac Volumes

Step III: Once scanning is completed, the software displays a list of recovered files that can be viewed using either “Data View” or “File Type View” option, as illustrated in Fig IV. Upon purchasing full version of the software, click “Save” to save the recovered data.

Recover files from formatted mac volumes - View Recover Files

Recover Pictures from SDHC Card

The SDHC card is preferred by most of the users to store large amount of data, as it offers a cheap storage with rapid data access times. As the SDHC card is used in many multimedia devices including digital cameras, it is often susceptible to virus attack and various other types of corruption. To salvage your valuable pictures from the corrupted SDHC card, you need a proper recovery tool like Picture Recovery software that specializes in file recovery from various types of SD cards and can easily restore pictures from SDHC card that gets damaged due to corruption. This software enables you to undelete images from SD card & SDHC card, which get deleted accidentally or intentionally from the card & also the ones that are lost due to virus infection or file system corruption. After the accomplishment of scanning process, the software facilitates you to preview the recovered pictures, thus you can check its efficiency before purchasing its full version.

You can make use of this SDHC picture recovery software in almost the data loss instances, of which some are discussed here:

Accidental deletion of pictures: You may accidentally delete pictures from your card using “Shift+Delete” option, when it is connected to the computer. The deletion of images may also happen when you unintentionally click the Delete button provided on the digital cameras.

Virus scathe: As mentioned earlier, virus infection is the main culprit that causes loss of a huge amount of pictures from the SDHC card. It makes the pictures & even the card inaccessible to use by attacking the file system of the card in severe cases.

SDHC card format: When the file system of your card gets corrupted, it does not work properly and you need to format it in order to make it accessible. Due to formatting, entire pictures on the card get deleted.

Human mistakes: If you unplug the SDHC card from the computer without using “Safe Remove Hardware” option or if you abruptly eject the card while it is in use, this may result in loss of pictures & other media files stored on it. Also, when you shut down your camera while pictures are being written to the SHDC card, it may lead to memory card corruption.

The software has built-in recovery algorithms that helps it to retrieve JPG files and various other popular image formats & also the raw photo formats such as ARW, SR2, CR2, CRW, RAF, NEF, X3F, ORF, etc to name a few. Along with picture files, it can also retrieve other media files including music & video files that are lost or get deleted from the card. The software is very helpful to recover photo from memory card, USB drive, hard drive, external hard drive, FireWire drive and many other storage devices. This award-winning picture recovery tool supports recovery of photos from Transcend, SanDisk, A-DATA, Verbatim and various other SDHC cards.

Carry out the below mentioned steps to use this software:

Step : Select “Recover Photos” on the welcome screen, as illustrated in Fig . Then select either “Recover Lost Photos” or “Recover Deleted Photos” option.

Recover Pictures from SDHC Card - Choose Recover Photos option

Fig : Select Recover Photos

Step : After selecting your SDHC from the list of drives, choose the file formats to recover, as illustrated in Fig . Then click “Next” to initialize the scanning process.

Recover Pictures from SDHC Card - Select the file signatures

Fig : File Format Selection

Step : Use either “Data view” or “File Type view” to view the list of recovered pictures, as illustrated in Fig . The software provides you “Preview” option to preview the recovered images. If satisfied with the performance of the software, purchase its full licensed version.

Recover Pictures from SDHC Card - Recovered Photos List

Fig : List of Retrieved Pictures

Recover JPG Files

Have you confronted the situation, wherein, you are not able to view your memorable pictures stored on the computer hard drive or your digital camera memory card ? This may be due to a corruption as a result of virus intrusion or some other unfortunate reason. In such cases, you can comfortably rely upon our specialized image recovery software that can recover the deleted & lost JPG photo files in most of the data loss scenarios. This recovery tool scans your hard drive or any other storage device and with the help of , it retrieves the JPG & other photo formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, etc. This photo recovery tool also supports the recovery of raw photo formats such as CR2, CRW, NEF, ARW, SR2, RAF, X3F, ORF & many other raw pictures.

The software supports the recovery of JPG photo files from a wide variety of multimedia storage devices, you can preferably make use of this much-applauded image recovery utility to undelete photo from memory card, external USB drives, FireWire drive and even from external hard drive connected to your personal computer. Photos commonly get deleted when you accidentally use the “Shift+Delete” key combination on your Windows operating system, this results in the deleted photos bypassing the recycle bin. The other major factor responsible for the loss of JPG files is virus attack. When you transfer some pictures from the internet or any other storage device on your memory card, there are chances of virus intrusion that corrupts your memory card such that it becomes inaccessible, as a result of which, you lose all the JPG files & other picture files from it.

JPG photo files also get deleted when you format the memory card unintentionally while trying to format some other partition on your computer hard drive. The formatting results in the deletion of entire data stored on the memory card and can be restored completely by with the help of our photo recovery software that can even restore deleted pictures from Canon digital camera & many other cameras including Sony, Nikon, Olympus, Kodak, etc to name a few. It can also retrieve the JPG files that are lost due to improper system shutdown or when you abruptly unplug the memory card from the computer, while it is in use. It can easily retrieve photos from SD card, XD card, CF card, MMC, etc that are used in various digital cameras, professional DSLRs, mobile phones for storing different types of photos including JPG files.

It is the software which is compatible with both Windows & the Mac operating system. It supports Windows XP, Vista, Win 7, Windows Server 2003 & 2008 and Mac OS X 10.5.8 & above versions that includes Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, etc operating system. It facilitates you to have a preview of the recovered photo so that you can evaluate the recovery results of this software before purchasing its full version.

You can follow these steps that will guide you to recover JPG files:

Step A: As shown in Fig A, select “Recover Photos” on the main software interface and then choose any of the recovery options on the next window.

Recover JPG Files - Select Recover Photos

Fig A: Recover Photos

Step B: From the list of logical drives, select the one from which you want to recover the JPG files and click “Next”, as shown in Fig B.

Recover JPG Files - Select a Drive to recover JPG files

Fig B: Select a drive

Step C: You need to select the file types that are to be retrieved, as shown in Fig C. Then click “Next”.

Recover JPG Files - Select the file formats

Fig C: File Type Selection

Step D: After the completion of , a list of recovered photos get displayed that can be viewed using “File Type view” or “Data view” option, as shown in Fig D. Preview the photo using “Preview” option and if satisfied with the result, purchase the software and select the files to save.

Recover JPG Files - A list of retrieved photos

Fig D: Retrieved Photos list