How to recover photo, music & video files from flash card
Digital Cameras are very popular now-a-days. Digital cameras require small memory cards for storing data in it. A flash card is a simple solid state memory device that is used in a digital image device such as still photo camera or video camera. The types of files stored on flash cards range from simple JPEG files to AVI and MOV files. Flash cards are quite prone to data loss if not handled properly. Accidental deletion is the most common of data loss in flash cards. So to overcome such type of data loss problems you can use Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery Software.
If you have unintentionally deleted or formatted pictures, videos or sound files on your flash card or have pulled it out during a write operation, no matter what the cause is Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery Software can easily, quickly and absolutely reliably recover the lost data. The software is very easy to use and even if you are not a computer savvy person, you can use it without much discomfort. It is a must have perfect tool for both amateur and professional photographers due to its simplicity and functionality. It can effectively recover corrupted or lost data from formatted, damaged or unreadable flash cards.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you have deleted/lost files from your flash card and want to recover most of those, PLEASE STOP TAKING ANY MORE PICTURES/VIDEOS from your digital camera. That’s because the more you write new data on your memory card, the chances of recovering old and deleted data becomes less.
You can download Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery Software first and install it to your computer. And follow this tutorial to recover files from flash card.
Step 1: Double Click on the desktop or Programs list in Start menu to run the application. Connect your Compact Flash card to your computer, select it. If you don’t find it, you can click Refresh Drives and Click “Next” (as shown in Figure a).
Figure a: Program Main Window
Step 2: Select the File Types
After you click “Next” the application will ask you to select the file type to recover. A window will appear as shown in Figure b to select the file type for images, videos and music files. Select the file types you wish to recover and click “Next”. You can also use the “Select All” button which will check all the available choices.
Figure b: Select File Type
The program will now scan the Flash Card for deleted/lost files and show you the list of found files and folders in a tree format (as in Figure c).
Step 3: Scan results screen
In the results screen, select the file or folders that you want to recover and press “SAVE” button (see Figure c).
Figure c: Scan Results
Step 4: Preview the File before Saving
You can double click on the found file to preview before recovery or, you may right click on the selected file and select “Preview” option from the menu (as shown in Figure d).
Figure d: Preview
Step 5: After you click the Save button, a window will popup to select destination location to restore recovered data (See Figure e).
Figure e: Select Destination Location
Click Save, all the data will be saved in a new folder by name “DigitalMediaRecovery XXXX” in the selected destination location. You also choose Burn data to CD/DVD to directly save your recovered files to a CD/DVD.
All your selected photos or videos will be on your destination location when the Flash Card recovery process is completed.
You have now finished with Flash Card data recovery using Disk Doctor’s Digital Media Recovery. The software also works for Smart Media Card, Secure Digital Card (SD), Multi-Media Card (MMC), XD Picture Card (XD), Micro Drive, Sony Memory Stick (Duo, Pro), as well as removable storage including Zip disk, USB drives and Hard drives.