How to Retrieve Deleted Photos?

"I took about a million photos. I was looking through them to see which ones to delete, but by mistake I pressed the ‘Delete All Folders' from my camera. I have no any photo now. Is there any way I can retrieve deleted photos? I really want them!" In our daily life we sometimes encounter the above data loss due to accidental deletion. If you are seeking a way to quickly and easily retrieve deleted photos, photo recovery software can help you.

If you need to retrieve deleted photos from SD card, memory card, PC, USB drive and more, just download and run Wondershare Photo Recovery. It supports Windows Vista / XP / 2003 / 2K / 9X.

So here's how Wondershare Photo Recovery works.

Step1: Select the target device, and then click Next to start the scanning process. Before starting the recovery process, first you need to select the target storage device you want to retrieve deleted photos and images from.
Step2: Scan the target storage device, preview and retrieve the deleted photos
After finishing the scanning process, a list of files that have been found will be shown on the left. In addition, there will be a preview window of recoverable files on the right. Here you can preview and retrieve deleted photos you need like below.
Step3: Select a recovery path or enter a directory where you want to save the retrieved photos.
Indeed, most of photo losses are caused by human errors, rather than by the malfunction of computer or camera. Here are some tips to prevent photo lose.

1. Carefully read user manual of your camera before you use. Know how to properly delete single picture and all pictures.

2. Be more cautious to use ‘Shift + Del' method when you want to delete photos from your PC and camera. Use Delete button to delete photos in case other needed photos are deleted.

What Is Data?

Data (plural of datum, which is seldom used) are distinct pieces of information, usually formatted in a special way. It can exist in a variety of forms, including knowledge stored in a human mind, text written or printed on paper, and patterns of bytes stored in electronic memory chip, on magnetic media.

In computer science, data is one of the two broad categories of computer software. It is anything in a form suitable for use with a computer. Data is often distinguished from the other category – programs, which are sets of instructions for manipulating data. In this sense, data is thus everything that is not program code.

In an alternate usage, data is often referred to binary files (which are not human-readable) as distinguished from human-readable text. The total amount of digital data in 2007 was estimated to be 281 billion gigabytes.

Undelete Image from Cell Phones

As the development of 3G technologies, nowadays cell phones has become more and more popular. We would like to take images with them because they are portable and convenient and we can capture important moments almost at anytime and anywhere. After taking new images, we are curious to check if the images are nice or just so-so. Sometimes we may accidentally press wrong button. We delete images instead of saving. Then here comes a question that once images get deleted, can we undelete image from cell phones.

Why deleted image can be undeleted

The answer is affirmative. The image hasn't been permanently deleted, and we can still undelete image from cell phones. Because what you deleted is the entry index which says what and where the file is. The space in which the deleted file located is available for immediate and re-useable use. It means that the space can be occupied by new file at anytime. So Time is of the essence. The success to undelete image depends more or less on how quickly you act! Therefore you must act fast and try not to upload any new images, or videos onto the cell phones. Doing so minimizes the chances of the space in question being overwritten by new files, thus increasing the likelihood of success to undelete image from cell phones.

How to undelete image from Cell phones

If you just deleted your image on your cell phone, and your cell phone is not physically damaged, you can undelete image from the cell phone on your own as long as the original data is not overwritten. The trick to is to find out professional picture recovery tool for the phone. There are some picture recovery tools on the current market. Search on Google you can find out the software suppliers and product websites. Most picture recovery tools are wizard-designed, what you need to do is to follow the step-by-step guidance. In order to choose a right and best one, the following factors you should pay attention to:

a. Whether the software is risk-free or read-only or not. The picture recovery tool you chosen should not do any further damage to your valuable data. The right one should be risk-free and non-destructive.

b. Powerful recovery function. The tool you chosen should restore main types of picture formats such as BMP,JPG, JPEG,TIF, TIFF, PNG,GIF,DNG, CDR, MAX,PSD,WMF, etc.

c. Whether you can preview your pictures from thumbnail ( if it’s not a freeware). It’s better for you to preview your deleted pictures to check if all the pictures you deleted are recoverable and you can evaluate the recovery quality before you buy.

Tips of undeleting images from cell phones

When selecting a recovery path, do not save undeleted images on your cell phone directly. First save to your PC, then you can copy or send to your cell phone,in order to avoid data overwriting.

How to Recover Photos from Formatted Hard Disk?

Before answering how to recover photos from formatted hard disk, I would like to explain "what is format" and "How is the security of photos when formatting a hard disk?"

What is format?

In short, format is the initialization we have to do before taking use a hard disk. After this process, we can record information on the hard disk at easy. It is similar to storing many books in a big house. We cannot discard books into the house but put up a bookshelf firstly and place all books in categories. Furthermore, a computer operating system is not able to recognize a brand new hard disk or read data from it only when some magnetic symbols are written into every section of it. In the fact, the written process is format.

Format contains high-level format and low-level format. Floppy disk only has high-level format while hard disk has not only high-level format but also low-level format. Low-level format is subject to hardware tracks, and usually done before partition and high-level format.

Here I just help you distinguish the two by a simple method. Format which is related to operating system is high-level format. On the contrary, format that is not related to operating system is low-level format. In our daily life, the format we usually said is high-level format in most cases.

How is the security of photos when formatting a hard disk?

Theoretically, high-level format does not erase the data actually. It just marks the head of section where data locals by a kind of symbols telling operating system that this section is new data storable. In this case, we still have a chance to recover all data from formatted hard disk so long as there is no new data stored on after formatting. What we need is just a photo recovery tool, for example Wondershare Photo Recovery. So once you found you accidentally formatted hard disk, please to ensure that the formatted hard disk is not overwritten.

Any Way to Get Back Deleted Digital Photos from Samsung NX10?

I have been puzzled by one problem for the whole last week. Is there any way to get back the deleted digital photos from my Samsung digital camera? I have no idea beforehand. But thanks to photo recovery technology, I can share one of the best memories with my best friends I deleted them carelessly. Sound fantastic?

Last Saturday I went out hiking with a couple of my best college friends. It was a fantastic journey and we all enjoyed ourselves though a little exhausted. During the great time I took a lot of pictures with my new Samsung NX10 digital camera. Back home they asked me to share the photos with them on Facebook. On request I inserted the memory card to my laptop immediately I arrived home. It was so nice to see the happy moments we together enjoyed. But when I was selecting the photos I accidently deleted all the selected ones which I wanted to share. Terrible! I tried so hard but still couldn’t find them in both my memory card and my laptop. I was so frustrated about my fault. Also was so sorry to tell my friends about it.

Can I get back deleted digital photos from Samsung NX10? As is known to all that there is no recycle bin in our memory card, when photos are deleted they just gone. So I tried to turn to Internet for help. What surprised me was that there were so many people who suffered similar experience. And it’s excited to hear the deleted photos can be recovered with some special photo recovery tools even though they have been deleted from my digital camera. After comparing several recovery programs I chose Wondershare Photo Recovery at length. I didn’t have to spend hundreds of dollars and most importantly it got back all my precious photos deleted from my Samsung NX10.

I think this is very easy to use software with powerful recovery capability and beautiful operation interface. Only need 3 steps to get back the deleted digital photos. And it’s quite humanistic and logical that you can free install and scan your deleted digital photos. At first I just wanted to have a try and download the free evaluation program. I didn’t expect it to get my deleted photos back as I had no idea how such things could happen. I followed the instructions step by step. Then until it suggested me to preview the scan results, I really couldn’t believe my eyes! The deleted digital photos are all there with no one less. So I purchased the full version and got them back. Now I have shared them with my friends and they were also surprised at it. What amazing thing!

I guess probably still there are many people who don’t know that deleted pictures on digital camera can be recovered. Or how did that work? After the incredible experience I figured it out finally. As we all know, digital camera no matter what brands Samsung or Canon, usually all the pictures you take are stored in a memory card. This memory card is just like a mobile external hard drive such as USB or other portable device. All the data are stored in the disk systematically and orderly. When we commit Delete operation, it seems that they disappear forever. However, the fact is they are still there in the disk. They are not lost, just not visible or readable because the entry index of the system makes a special mark on those data hinting this area can be written over by other new data. So at this situation the first and most urgent thing you have to keep in mind: Stop using your digital camera to take more photos or save new files especially sizeable ones to it before you got the deleted photos back, this is for the security of them! What we have to do next is find good and secure recovery software to do the following job. For example I relied on Wondershare Photo Recovery to get back the deleted digital photos from Samsung NX10. What’s more interesting, even you back up the photos from your memory card to your computer. And accidently deleted them from the recycle bin or command shift delete, you can also get them back by using this software. Besides this photo recovery tool can also recover video, audio and music deleted from other Samsung Series for example Samsung WB, Samsung ST or Samsung PL. Even from other digital camera like Canon, Kodak, Sigma, HP or LG.

So don’t panic when you accidently deleted digital photos from digital camera. There is a way to get them back. Just choose appropriate photo recovery software to tackle your problems.

How to Unerase Pictures from Digital Camera?

"I was transferring pictures from my digital camera to my PC and then I left the room. When I returned, I assumed the downloading was finished, so I erased the pictures from my camera. To my surprise, I find that the pictures are not in the target location I specified. The pictures are gone! Is there anything I can do to unerase my pictures?"

Absolutely the answer is affirmative. Actually the pictures are still in the card of your camera. What you erased is the index entry address of the pictures which marks where the pictures locate. But once you put any new data on the card, the space which contains the erased photos is covered. It means your erased pictures are overwritten. Therefore, unerasing pictures as soon as possible is the wisest choice for you, and the safest action for your precious pictures.

You can unerase pictures from digital camera on your own with a professional picture recovery tool. I would like to use Wondershare Photo Recovery for a step-by-step guidance on how to unerase pictures from digital camera.

Free download and install Wondershare Photo Recovery.

Step1: connect the card which you erased pictures from to your computer.

Step2: scan the target device.

Start Wondershare Photo Recovery, find the camera card in the left list and click Next to start the automatic scanning process.

Step3: preview and unerase pictures

After finishing the scanning process, a list of files that have been found will be shown on the left. In addition, there will be a preview window of recoverable files on the right. Here you can preview and unerase pictures you need like below

Step4: Select a recovery path or enter a directory where you want to save the unerased pictures.

How to Recover Deleted Photos from Digital Camera's SD Card?

Most digital camera enthusiasts may meet the situations that deleted the photos inexpertly, for example the camera fell into the toddles hands. Sometimes when back from the journey we can only find that the computer cannot recognize the SD card. Most people cannot find out the way for the SD card recovery and just lost the photos. Relax, please. The followings are some ways you can try for SD card recovery and Photo Recovery.

1. Repair the SD card the computer cannot recognize.

If you meet this situation, try to take the SD card out and put it back in. On rare occasions, computers don't recognize that the information on the card changed. After the card is removed and reinserted, the computer should reload it. You can also try refreshing the window by right-clicking and selecting "Refresh" from the list. This is the easiest and the basic method you can try to find your SD data back.

2. Check the camera and make sure the SD card is inserted right and the Camera settings are correct.

Sometimes the SD card may not insert correct or camera's settings may have been changed and the data was saved to the internal memory so you cannot find the pictures on the SD card.

3. Recover Photos and make a SD card recovery for the deleted photos.

If the methods tried above cannot fix the problem or you have deleted & formatted the photos from the SD card, you may need a photo recovery tool or Data recovery tool. An online search will turn up a plethora of disk-utilities, most of them offer a free version that can show you a preview of photos that can be recovered, but require you to buy the software to do the actual recovery. I have tried 6 photo recovery tools and the price of them is at a range from $39 to $129. My favorite Photo recovery tool is Wondershare Photo Recovery; it has a powerful photo recovery program and has a relatively lower price.

There are some more tips for you before recovering your photos. The first one is, do not use your SD card for any other data transfer or storage because it may cover the original data. The second is, do not storage the recovered data in the lost data's folder. It may also cause the conflict problems. So how about the result of your photo recovery?