How to Recover Lost Files from Memory Card?

Recovery of Lost Files from Memory Card

When you try to access a memory card on your personal computer, you may get some error messages like “Read/Write Error”, “Card not initialized”, etc. After facing such messages, you will not be able to access the files from the affected memory card, thus you may tend towards losing entire data from it. For the recovery of files, you can make use of a deleted file recovery software that can restore deleted data from a memory card with ease. The software comes equipped with three modules for the purpose of file recovery in different data loss scenarios. You may use a memory card in multimedia devices like camera, camcorder, music player, mobile phone, etc to store large amount of data. To recover the media files from it, you can rely upon this recovery tool developed to support deleted file recovery on Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2003 & 2008.

This software can recover popular photo formats like JPG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG, etc from your memory card. In addition to this, it has the potential to restore the deleted or lost raw picture formats with the assistance of its “Recover Photos” module. By making use of this recovery module, you can effortlessly recover CR2, CRW, RAF, NEF, ARW, SR2, ORF, X3F & various other raw photo formats of different digital cameras, camcorders and professional DSLRs. The deleted file recovery tool can also be utilized by the users who want to restore their lost audio & video files from the corrupt memory card. It supports file recovery on various types of memory cards, thus can easily recover media files lost from flash card, SD card, XD card, MMC, memory stick and also the USB flash drives along with iPods.

You can make use of the tool on almost all the brands of memory cards, as it supports recovery of data from most of the popular memory card brands including Transcend, SanDisk, Sony, Samsung, Kingston, Lexar, etc. Apart from the Windows operating system, this tool also undelete files and folders from hard drive, external USB drives, FireWire Drives, iPods on a Mac computer installed with latest Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion operating systems. The Mac edition of this recovery utility can prominently recover files lost from Mac memory cards and other external storage drives on both Intel & PowerPC Macintosh machines. Apart from memory card data recovery, you can recover lost computer files with this tool.

Scenarios in which you can utilize the Deleted File Recovery Software :

• Faulty Card Reader : If the card reader used to access the memory card on a computer is faulty & malfunctions, there are chances of memory card getting damaged making the files unreadable.


• Virus/Malware Infection : This is the most common factor responsible for data loss on a memory card. Your card may get infected by the virus attack occurred while transferring or storing data on a memory card from an infected storage device or over the internet. In case of severe infection, you may not be able to access the memory, thus losing entire data.


• Incorrect Removal of Card : Improperly ejecting a card before switching off the camera may result in a loss of files from the card. You may get the same result if you eject a card from the card reader connected to your PC, while files are being transferred from the card.


• Deletion of files using “Shift+Delete” : Files deleted in this manner will bypass the recycle bin, in other words, will not get stored in it. Thus, without using any recovery software, it becomes very complex to recover the deleted files.


• Formatting a Card : Due to corruption as a result of factors mentioned above, you may opt for formatting a memory card. If a proper backup of data is not taken, you will lose entire files from the card.

However, the next time, you can comfortably format your corrupted memory card without thinking much about the data because this recovery software can retrieve the lost & deleted files from the formatted memory card quite easily & also efficiently. It is the best file recovery application available in the market designed by experts with a simple user interface so that even a amateur user can recover deleted files without facing any complications. Moreover, you can also use this software to recover deleted files from hard disk in just few easy steps.

Carry out the steps mentioned below to recover lost files from a memory card :

Step I : Choose “Recover Files” on the welcome window, as illustrated in Fig I. Next, select “Recover Deleted Files” option.

Fig I: Select Recover Files

Step II : The software displays a list of logical drives connected to your PC, choose your memory card and click “Next”, as illustrated in Fig II.

Fig II: Choose Memory Card

Step III : Right-click a file from the list of recovered files, as illustrated in Fig III,  to “Preview” it prior to purchasing the full version of this recovery software.

Figure III: Retrieved Files List