Often there are situations when, through carelessness, we irrevocably (as it seems to us) delete the necessary files and folders from removable media. Or the virus destroyed all the necessary information on a flash drive.
Agree, it’s very disappointing to lose, therefore, photos from your summer vacation or graduation work, memorable home videos or music files.
Do not despair, friends! Perhaps not everything is completely lost! In this article I will tell you about how to recover data from a memory card.
For example, take the standard memory card of a conventional digital camera.
The first thing to remember: after accidentally formatting a removable media of this kind, you must stop using it. In no case, after an unpleasant incident that has occurred, do not write any information to the card, otherwise data recovery from the memory card will be impossible. A memory card for the camera is one of the easiest media to
recover deleted files, because It has a small size (compared, for example, with a hard disk), unfragmented data, and also, as a rule, one type of file.
So, install the necessary software.
The Recuva program will help you in this matter. One of the simplest utilities of this kind, able to recover files of any type. Easy-to-use program, data recovery from a flash drive takes place in a minimum amount of time. For use at home, it is absolutely free.
Next, I will tell you how to use Recuva after installing it on a PC.
- Run the utility, click the "Next" button in the welcome window.
- Select the type of files to restore. These can be music files, pictures and photos, email files, etc. It is best to select “Other” to restore all types of lost data at once. "Further".
- In the "Placement" window, by clicking the "Browse" button, select the USB flash drive of the camera. "Further".
- In the next dialog box, check the “in-depth analysis” box, for a better final result, and start the program by clicking the “Start” button.
- After searching, Recuva will give you a list of detected files. Those that need to be restored should be checked with a tick (to the left of the name), select the folder to save and click the "Restore" button.
- After recovery, a report appears on the returned files with their total number and the number of partially restored.
As you can see, recovering data from a memory card is not such a complicated process.
Now let's talk about what does this concept mean - “partially restored files”?
- If the archive is severely damaged, Recuva will try to extract at least some of the archived data.
- There are restored photos, which some viewers simply stop displaying after restoration.
- Interrupted videos.
I want to note that Recuva is not the only program that allows you to restore data from a memory card. There are a lot of similar programs at present. And also this utility allows you to restore files not only from memory cards, but also from the recycle bin, from places unknown to the user, from the My Documents folder, etc.
I hope that after reading this article you were able to return the necessary data!