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.

There are various reasons which lead to loss of precious photos, images and videos on you SD card like- corruption in SD card, SD card damage, accidentally deletion of photos, formatting of SD card, accidentally switched your camera off, or stumbled on your USB cable and plugged off its slot while transferring some just-clicked photos from your SD card to your PC, taking SD card out without camera switching off or many more other. Whatever might be the cause, to recover files from SD Card Disk Doctor’s Digital Media Recovery Software is very useful.

The software is reliable to recover your multimedia files that include image files such as JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF and also raw photographic files such as CRW, CR2, NEF, ORF, SR2, SRF and MRW, music files like MP3, WAV, MIDI, MP4, and also video files that include AVI, MOV, MP4, MPG.

The step-by-step instruction of recover files from SD card is as following:

Step 1: Launch the software and Select the SD Card

Launch the Doctor’s Digital Media Recovery Software, a list of drives found in the system will be listed, select the SD Card/drive which contains the deleted/lost images and click “NEXT” (as shown in Figure a).

Figure a: Program Main Window

Step 2: Select the File Type You Wish to Scan

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 SD card for deleted/lost files. With its distinctive and special disk scanning technology the application will collect and analyze every byte on the SD card 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, files found will be sorted by file type selections that you have made. 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 e).

Figure e: Preview

Step 5: After you click the Save button, a window will popup to select destination location to restore recovered data (See Figure d).

Figure d: Select Destination Location

Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery Software includes two options to save the recovered data.

1. Save data to local drive
2. Burn data to CD/DVD

If you choose to save data to local drive and specify the file types you wish to ignore during restoration process, check if you want the data to be saved in compressed form and click OK. Now the program starts saving the data to selected destination location of your choice.

After the saving is complete a message will popup intimating the same. All the data will be restored in a new folder by name “UndeleteX “. You can now access your recovered data as before.

CAUTION: Do not save the recovered data to the drive from which data is being recovered.

Accompanying with Disk Doctor’s Digital Media Recovery, you will never worry about losing image, music, videos.