Recover lost photos when your hard drive is corrupted

May it be a birthday party, a marriage party, a small family and friends get together, a picnic or world tour, we love to capture each moments of our life in a camera to make it memorable for all times to come. Digital images are easy to save, carry and transfer.

Most of the times we save digital photos to the computer hard drive. However, damage in the hard drive can cause inaccessibility of the images saved on the system thereby giving rise to a situation of severe case of data loss. A corrupt hard drive needs to be formatted in order to bring back to the working condition. However, the photos along with other data saved on the hard drive become inaccessible once it is formatted. To recover the photos you need an updated backup. But in absence of proper backup, you can still recover the digital images with Image Recovery Software.

Once I organized an elaborated party on the 25th anniversary of my marriage. I had snapped many images with my digital camera on the occasion. I preferred to save those images on my system.

However one fine day when I tried to boot in my system to view the images, I was unable to boot in. To this, I consulted one of my friends who happen to be a computer expert. He declared that the hard drive has become corrupt and suggested me to format the hard drive to bring it back to the working condition. He further told me that you will lose all the data in the hard drive once formatting the hard drive; but there is a solution of this. You need to use a Photo Recovery Software for recovering those photos.

This software thoroughly scans the formatted hard drive to recover the inaccessible images. Further, the user friendly user interface of this software allows even the naive computer user to easily recover the lost, deleted and inaccessible images from a formatted hard disk.

How to recover corrupted images after “memory card” error

Images are the very personal possession of any individual which has lot of memories inscribed in it. With digital cameras, photography has become even easier. You can snap a photo any where, in any time and by any one. The photos in a digital camera is saved on the memory cards. Nikon Coolpix P90 is a digital camera that has got high picture quality with latest and user friendly features that makes the camera popular among both home as well as professional users. The camera allows use of different storage media that include SD/SDHC, MMC, MMC Plus and HC MMC Plus card. However, the corruption in these card can affect the functionality of the camera and make the photos inaccessible. The corruption in the card results in the prompting of the following error messages:

“memory card error”

and

“card locked”

The corruption in the memory card may be due to several reasons, including interrupted read/write operation and stretch metallic part over the memory card.

Causes:

The prominent reasons that can result in the above error messages are as follows:

• Improper read/write operation
• Scratch on the metallic part of the memory card
• Abnormal insertion/removal of the card
• Abrupt switching off of camera
• Virus attack

Resolution:

As corruption in the storage media is normal, it is recommended that you must take regular backup of your memory card. An corruption in the memory card is dealt by formatting the memory card. This would bring back your memory card to the working condition but the data previously saved in the memory card become inaccessible. The inaccessible data can however be recovered from an updated backup. But in case you do not have a proper backup, you need third party digital photo recovery software to recover the inaccessible data.

Actually when the card is formatted, the images are not instantly wiped out. Instead, the a new file system is created in the place of the old file system. This results in inaccessibility of the images which are still intact in the card. Unless new images are written in to the memory card, the digital photo recovery software can scan and recover the images from the formatted card.

Corrupt USB leading to inaccessibility of the photos

Is your USB corrupt and you have lost all your priceless photos in the USB? Are you in search of method to recover photos from your corrupt USB?

Actually, in such condition, if you have an updated backup, you can recover your photos from that. But in absence of a proper backup, you can recover your photos by the use of a third party card recovery software. It really works!

Actually a USB is an external storage device that holds the data in electronic form. It is a portable high capacity device that is easy to carry along anywhere. The device is however, prone to corruption. The corruption in the USB can be due to the following reasons:

• Virus attack
• Pulling out the device during the data transfer
• Sudden Power surge
• Magnetic field interference

In such case you are at risk of losing your photographs. In such condition an updated backup comes to your rescue. But when you do not have a clean and updated backup to restore the lost photos, you have to format the USB to bring it back to the working condition. But formating the USB leads to damage of the data (photos) saved in it. In such condition, a card recovery software is the best option to use to get back your lost data.

Actually when you format the USB, the data is not immediately wiped out of it. Rather, it is still present on the USB. Unless something is not written into the USB, the data previously saved remain intact. It only does not appear in the screen but still lies in the original memory location.

It is therefore recommended, when you lose certain data (photo) from your USB, do not perform any write operation before recovering the data. The photo recovery software uses this principle to recover the photos lost or corrupted from the USB.