How to Recover Deleted/Lost Photos from Digital Camera?

Imagine that you had gone for trip with your friends, where you had took amazing pictures with your friend on different locations and also shoot some awesome video clips. As soon as you returned home, the first thing you did is to connect the digital camera with your personal computer and start transferring those files.

So far so good, your bad luck recalls again, and you hit that Erase All button between the transferring process. Sounds tragic right! Here’s an Article that shows why is it still possible to recover photos from digital camera, or camera memory card & how to do it.

Why you can still recover files from Digital Camera?

Most of the digital cameras don’t wipe data saved on its storage media when you delete or format it. The data from digital camera storage media gets permanently erased when it’s overwritten with new data. Hence, it is recommended stop using digital camera for taking new photos and videos soon after data is lost from digital camera or any other storage device. Before going the procedure for recovering data from digicam, let’s see the possible causes for loss of data from digital camera as mentioned below:

  • Deleting pictures or video clips from digital camera by mistake
  • Unintentionally formatting digital camera storage media when connected to computer
  • Digital camera showing error “drive not formatted. Do you want to format now?”
  • If your digital camera is corrupted, then you will lose data present on camera
  • You may lose data from digital camera due to virus or malware infection

There are many other reasons for loss of data from digital camera, but the only way to overcome from these problems is to use the best digital camera recovery software. If you want to know complete information about recovery tool and procedure for using recovery application, then read this page till the end.

Digital camera data recovery software:

Yodot Photo Recovery is a simple and user friendly recovery software, which helps you to retrieve lost or erased data from digital camera on computer running on Windows operating system. This software supports recovery of lost pictures, videos, songs, music files and other documents from all storage media. You can restore RAW image file formats such as NEF, CRW,CR2, DNG, ARW, SR2, ORF, MRW, 3FR, PEF, RAW, X3F, RAF, KDC, K25, DCR, 3FR, NRW, J6I, etc supported by various digital camera brands. You can even use this camera recovery tool for recovering deleted files from sd card, external hard drives, USB drives, memory cards, FireWire drives, iPods and other storage media. You can preview recovered media files from digicam and search for specific files by providing their unique signatures. This recovery application works well in all versions of Windows operating system including the latest Windows 10 operating system.

Steps to recover files from digital camera:

  • First connect your digital camera to Windows PC
  • Then download Yodot Photo Recovery application and install it on your computer
  • Click on recovery utility icon present on your PC and run the application
  • In main screen, you can two options i.e. “Deleted Photo Recovery” and “Lost Photo Recovery”
  • Select either of the option depending on data loss occurred on your digital camera
  • Software scans your PC and shows all drives present in your system, including digital camera
  • Choose digital camera drive and click on “Next” option
  • Recovery tool starts scanning the selected drive and displays all retrieved files in two types of view i.e. “Data View” and “File Type View”
  • Preview recovered data from digital camera using “Preview” option
  • Finally, save the rescued data to your prefer location on computer

Useful Tips:

  • Avoid connecting digital camera to virus contaminated computer
  • Have an additional copy of your precious digital camera data on some other reliable storage device
  • Don’t unplug memory card from digital camera when read or write process takes place

Other Popular Software

Yodot Photo Recovery (Windows)

Recover and restore deleted photos lost from your digital camera memory card or the images from your Windows PC. The software can recover all popular image types including popular audio and video files.

Yodot Mac File Recovery

The only undelete application for Mac that can recover deleted files from HFS+, HFSX partitions on Mac. The software also has the ability to recover lost files using RAW signature method.