Recover Photos from CF Cards Type I and II

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CF cards are one of the most convenient and safest memory cards used in many digital cameras. However, in spite of their data safeguard technologies, they are prone to damages meaning that photos on cards may get lost any time. In fact, there are times when severe photo loss conditions render even the computer's Backup program useless. At such times, people look out for some sort of CF card recovery software.

Suppose, you have accidentally removed your CF card from your camera while you are transferring photos you have just taken to your PC. After this improper termination, you reload your card and tray to continue your transfer process. Now, you find your card is inaccessible from the error message 'Er CF' which repeatedly pops up if you try to access the card again and again.

Cause:

Any improper interruption of active data transfer or read/write process leads to improper termination of the process causes logical damage to the storage media. It is quite clear that if the storage medium is corrupt, its contents (data) are practically irretrievable which is tantamount to saying they are lost. Reformatting will put the card logically right, but it will delete all data stored on it.

Solution:

If this backup file is not available, or if this utility cannot serve the purpose, use some specially developed memory card recovery software. Such applications employ the latest technologies to provide memory card recovery solutions needed at the time.


Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery
comprehensively recovers lost multimedia files of various formats from almost all storage media. Compatible with Windows and Apple Mac operating systems, this digital memory card recovery application saves the recovered data in a user-specified location keeping the originals intact.

Tips and Recommendation for Photo Recovery

Always Backup your photos from memory cards or hard drive as there is always a risk of losing or corruption of these photos.
There are some tips and recommendations so that you do not lost your digital photos.

1.Check if the device is being recognized

Plugin your device in to computer and check if the windows or MAC operating system what so ever recognizes the device. Suppose windows does not recognize the device then you can there is some hardware problem then it has be checked by various photo recovery software available which can recover your photos.

2. Stop Using Your Digital Camera or Corrupted Device Immediately
If you continue to use the device you lost your photos on, the device or digital camera can overwrite your old photos, causing you to lose the photo forever.

3. Do Not Reformat Your Device
Reformatting can result in your still recoverable images being overwritten. Further, reformatting may not solve the problem that occurred in the first place. Other activities not to do at this stage are: do not try to open the device and do not expose the storage media to extreme temperatures or strong magnetic fields

4. Choose a Recovery Software Tool
There are a number of Digital Camera Photo Recovery Software available.Make sure that the recovery software you consider is applicable for your digital media whether it is camera memory card, computer drive, cell phone memory card or any other device type and software application supports your format whether it is JPEG or other formats. Make sure you choose an application that works on the Operating System that you are using. We recently did a review and comparison of some of the leading tools and we found Adroit Photo Recovery to be the best performing.

5. Define the Features Important to You Before Selecting the Right Recovery Software
Use the demo version of any recovery software and check that all your photos have been recovered properly then only you should buy the software.

6. Backup your photos
Once Recovered, you should never forget to recover your photos and place it in any digital media storage like CD or DVD so that you can get store those photos permanently.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery recovers lost multimedia files of various formats from almost all storage media. Compatible with Windows and Apple Mac operating systems, this Digital camera and Photo recovery application saves the recovered data in a user-specified location keeping the originals intact.