If your memory card storing many photos is formatted, what is your feeling? Some users would like to murder themselves rather than encountering this situation. Memory card, most of the time used as storage devices of digital cameras, plays an important part in photo storage. Formatting a memory card will make all photos lost. Running into this condition, we usually have two solutions: resorting to professional data recovery companies and using professional photo recovery software. Both have advantages and disadvantages. The first one can absolutely work in this situation but costs much money and is at risk of information leak while as to the second, it is difficult to find excellent photo recovery software that is able to carry out photo recovery from formatted memory card and the lost photos may become unrecoverable once inferior photo recovery software is used. However, it is believed that most users will still prefer the second one if there is professional photo recovery software. Good news is that we can get the multifunctional photo recovery software from http://www.photo-recovery.biz/.
The powerful but free photo recovery software
The mentioned photo recovery software is powerful but free of charge. We can see its functions from the following interface.
It is packed with five photo recovery modules: "Undelete Recovery", "Damaged Partition Recovery", "Lost Partition Recovery", "Digital Media Recovery" and "CD/DVD Recovery". Among them, "Damaged Partition Recovery" and "Digital Media Recovery" both can be used to perform photo recovery from formatted memory card. Then we'll demonstrate how to recover lost data from formatted memory card by employing "Digital Media Recovery" module.
Photo recovery from formatted memory card
1. Please connect the formatted memory card to the computer (we may need a card reader) and then launch the free photo recovery software. Please click "Digital Media Recovery" module and we'll see the following interface.
2. Please select the formatted memory card and click "Full Scan" to scan it. Then the following interface will be shown.
3. All lost photos in the formatted memory card are shown. Please check the photos we will recover and click "Save Files" to store them to a safe location. Here, we should never store the recovered photos to the original formatted memory card because this action will impinge on photo recovery effect. And for the same reason, it also should be noticed that we must not store new photos to the formatted memory card before photo recovery.