There are some precautions that you should take, to avoid data loss in memory cards,

• I recommend that you make a backup copy of important data, since some or all data recorded on the card may get corrupted or erased by electrical noise, static electricity or card malfunctions.
• Do not allow dirt, water or foreign objects to come into contact with the terminals on the back of the card. Do not touch the terminals with your hands or metal objects.
• Please note that SD cards formatted or edited by using other manufacturers’ cameras, a computer or application programs, may not operate correctly in your camera.
  We recommend that you use the SD cards that have been formatted in your camera.
  The card supplied with your camera may be used without further formatting.

When a SD card is formatted, all the data present on the card is deleted. But there is nothing to worry, as they are not permanently erased from the card. Since they are just marked for deletion, you can undelete pictures from SD card using a data recovery software.

REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software lets you undelete pictures from SD card using the easy-to-use interface, and the variety of features that the software provides. The software also lets you preview the recovered files, before you actually save them.

Most people that lose USB data is by accidentally deleting a file. If you have permanently deleted an item using Shift+Delete and bypassed the Recycle Bin and regret now? Do not fret; Disk Doctors Undelete – Deleted File Recovery Software is here to help you recover files from USB drive . Connect the USB drive to a healthy computer and follow the tutorial below to recover files.

Step-by-step guide to retrieve deleted file(s) from USB drive:

Step 1: Download and install Disk Doctors Undelete. Run the application and select the drive to search deleted file and click “Next” (See Figure a).
Caution: Note: Never install Disk Doctors Undelete on the drive from which you want to recover data, also never save any data on the same drive from which you are recovering data.

Install the software to any another partition or computer, which is healthy system and has the best of hardware components, then attach the drive you want to recover as a slave to this machine and then proceed ahead recovering the data.

Figure a: Select the drive for search

 
Step 2: When the ‘Next’ button is pressed the scan is commenced and the next wizard screen will display a list of all the found files and folders in a tree format under a Root folder as shown in Figure b.

Figure b: Tree Format of the found files and folders

 
Step 3: To recover the file, select the file/folder you wish to recover or simply select the root folder to select all the found files and click Save. A window will appear asking to select destination location to restore recovered data (See Figure c).

Figure c: Saving the recovered data

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 file to the USB drive from where you are recovering data, for it may result in overwriting of data, and would result in permanent data loss.

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.