Most desirable external storage drives for different media devices like digital camera, camcorders and mobile phones are memory cards. Since they are economical, compacted and provide massive storage space, all most all digital media device manufacturers prefer flash cards as removable storage drive. Flash memory cards use FAT file system for file manipulation to avoid compatibility issue when using with different operating systems. Some of the popular brands of memory card manufacturers Kingston, Transcend, Sony and Samsung.

Formatting memory card is a common process which most of the users perform to erase data and re-install file system after every use, but strange thing is sometimes formatting leads to data loss. Since memory cards are widely used to capture photos and store other media files, losing which is really exasperating. In case if you have lost some photos or other media files from memory card while formatting, no need to be bothered, because you can perform memory card recovery after format error at your own without opting for any experts help.

Prior to discussing how to recover files from flash memory cards, let us see some of the scenarios where users can lose their digital files while formatting. Few common scenarios are listed here.

• Sometimes when you insert your flash memory card into digital camera or any other device, you might get a pop up message like Format now. This is called format error which occurs due to errors with file system. In order to use card further, it is mandatory to format. In case if such card has some files, then possibilities of losing files are more.
• It is a known fact that formatting erases all the data stored. Suppose if user forgot to take backup of files stored in flash cards before formatting, then losing files is definite.
• There are times in which users accidentally format their memory card by connecting it to computer. If the formatted card has some favorite photos or videos, then user will lose them.

Since lost media files are non-reproducible, while using flash memory cards, it is good to take some precautionary measures like taking a proper backup of data after every use, ensure that the card is properly plugged in while accessing, etc.

In worst case scenario, at any point of time, if you end up with losing files stored in you memory card without backup, stop using the card and avoid silly mistakes. As it is mentioned earlier, you can restore your deleted or lost data from flash cards with the help of memory card recovery software before overwriting the drive. They will perform sector by sector scanning of your card and retrieve data with the help of file extension or file signature.

Remo Recover (Windows) – Media Edition and Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition are the two advanced memory card recovery software developed by some expert data recovery professionals to undelete digital files from different type of memory cards. Using this tool you can restore all popular audio, video and image file formats including digital RAW photo files. Built-in preview option helps to preview the recovered file before restoration. Feel free to download the free trial version of the software to evaluate probability of recovery.

USB drives are most commonly used to transfer data from one device to other device. USB drives are commonly called as thumb drives, jump drives, pen drives etc. USB drives can be directly plugged in to your computer via USB port. USB drives are very small, portable and durable storage devices, which can store different types of files. USB drives have maximum data transfer speed of about 100Mbps.  But, generally USB drives operate in the range of 18-28 Mbps. USB drive uses flash technology to store large amount of data. When you connect USB drive to computer, Operating system recognises it as a separate disk drive. If you want to remove USB drive from your computer then you should use appropriate onscreen eject control like “Safely Remove Hardware” icon which is located at right side of Windows task bar. Most commonly, USB drives are used to transfer photos from one system to other system. In few cases,  while transferring photos to computer, you may accidentally remove USB drive that may results in loss of photos. You can retrieve photos from corrupted USB drive using relevant recovery tool.

If you remove USB drive without using “Safely Remove Hardware” icon even after transferring all the photos may also results in loss of photos. Because, it is possible that Operating system of your computer is accessing the file system of USB drive in background without any indication. If you interrupt this process then file system may get corrupted, which may does not allow you to access photos from USB drives resulting in loss of photos. USB drives does not have any moving parts like hard drives hence, they are less susceptible for mechanical failures. But, sometimes USB drives may get corrupted due to logical problems like power failures, abruptly ejecting USB drive, accidentally formatting USB drive etc. Virus attack is the common problem that corrupts the USB drive. If you want to remove viruses then you need to use antivirus programs. But, sometimes USB drives get severly corrupted by viruses. In such case, you need to format it to completely remove viruses from USB drives. But, formatting is the not a good solution because, it completely erases the contents of USB drive, which in turn cause data loss problems.

In order to avoid loss of photos, take backup of essential photos. Always, use “Safely Remove Hardware” icon. Make use of UPS to avoid loss of photos due to power failures. If you have lost the photos from USB drive then stop using that corrupted USB drive and use efficient recovery software.

Remo Recover (Windows) Media Edition retrieves lost or accidentally deleted photos from corrupted USB drive. Along with photos, this software can also recover different types of files like audio files, video files, text files etc. If you have accidentally formatted USB drive, then also you can use this software to restore lost photos from formatted USB drive. This software has find option which locates and recovers lost photos quickly. Download free demo version, where you can preview recovered photos using preview option.

While handling any storage device, there is a tendency of humans to commit errors, so if a person unknowingly presses delete button it may lead to data loss, other circumstances for data loss include accidentally formatting the memory card, file corruption etc

Using photo recovery software for Mac you can bring back those deleted files. It can recover deleted files from hard drive, USB external drive, digital camera card, and more. It can also retrieve deleted photos from many storage devices.

Features of Mac Photo Recovery Tool

• It should recover the files which were deleted after emptying Trash.
• Must support basic file systems like HFS+ and HFSX.
• Basically supported on Mac operating system.
• Displays a tree (dir) structure of files after recovering.
• Supports popular file formats.
• Safely saves the recovered data   on any storage device.

This utility can recover lost photos from your memory card, hard disk drives, SD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives and USB hard drives.

In many situations, data that’s deleted   from a memory card is actually still unharmed   and recoverable. Deletion   simply marks the space on card as available allowing data to be future written replacing old data which is dangerous process in recovering the data back.

There are applications you can retrieve deleted Photos instantaneously using a special recovery programs.

Some of the causes for data loss are given below

• Deleting the files   without your knowledge.
• Removing the memory card when the camera is in use this will eventually lead to data loss.
• Formatting the memory card.
• File corruption.

Have you lost or deleted pictures either from a camera memory card or PC? Do you want to recover those deleted pictures?

The good news is that the deleted pictures that you are looking for can easily be recovered from either a camera memory card or a PC in many conditions. Before knowing about the recovery process, you should first have little basic knowledge as what exactly happens when a photo gets deleted.

What happens when you delete a photo (or any file)?

When you delete a photo (or any file) the data is not erased but just the index entry that shows where the data for those files is located gets removed. In such case the system doesn’t know where to find the deleted pictures any longer. Now the area of storage space containing the data for those files is marked as free space. It means it is available to the system for any new files to be written there in its place.

For recovering deleted photos with the utmost chance of success, just don’t do anything on the system that might cause new files and data to be written to the device that you deleted pictures from.

If you need to recover pictures from your computers hard drive in particular, you should follow certain basic steps:

• Stop using the PC to browse the internet as this causes lots of temporary files to be written to the disk.
• Should NOT open applications or programs as this often causes lots of disk activity making the successful photo recovery and the recovering deleted pictures more tricky
• Should NOT close any applications or programs as this may cause files to be updated and saved to the disk. Any application that is still writing data to disk should be halted if possible, preferably still without actually closing it.
• Do NOT shut down, close or reboot your PC. This may cause applications or Windows itself to save data by creating new files, potentially overwriting your lost data and again making it more difficult to recover pictures.

By following these basic steps your deleted photo (or any file) can be protected from overwriting.

The quickest and easiest way to recover deleted pictures from either a PC or camera memory card is to use REMO Photo Recovery software.