How to Recover lost Images from Virus Infected external hard drive

Photos and Images are the Integral Part of our life. Photos are the special moments captured in a digital storage medium. We ensure to save them in the safest places possible. Memory cards, computer hard drives, and numerous other places are potentially safe. We can recover them whenever we wish to turn back time. To ensure we never face a situation where all our pictures are gone, we take a large number of back up copies. Some of us though, have the misfortune of either losing the back-up or not having one at all. This is heart-wrenching. Instead of losing hope, you should use a utility tool to perform digital image recovery.

We often save pictures on external hard drives, since their storage capacity is high. These drives are connectible to the computer. The main danger to these drives is due to the numerous computer virus. These can easily get transferred from the computer to the external drive.

You may come across a situation where you face a virus attack on the external hard drive where you have stored your images. Once you have stored them in a secure location, you seldom keep the originals. This could have serious repercussions.

There are a number of ways to ensure that you do not face virus attacks:

- Never download scrupulous mails.
- Always have an up-to-date anti-virus on your system.
- Never connect any external virus infected device to your computer.

After a virus attack:

- Images from the infected system should not be mailed pr transferred to anyone (the virus could attach itself to it)
- Use the anti-virus to scan and remove the virus.
- If this doesn't work, format the drive.

In rare cases, formatting does not delete some computer virus. Since the drive was formatted to rectify a virus attack, first ensure that there are no traces of the virus. This can be done using a virus scan tool. If any virus is still left, delete it.

After this use an image recovery software to retrieve all the images. The software scans the drive and performs a digital image recovery. This is possible because these software are programmed to penetrate the file system and salvage data no matter how many times the drive has been formatted.

Photo Recovery Software is a robust image recovery software that scans the drive thoroughly and salvages images safely. The tool is simple so even amateurs and first time users can use it with ease. It supports all file formats ( JPEG, GIF, TIFF, etc.) and recovers images from all media storage devices (memory cards, hard drives, etc.).