Windows Photo Recovery from a corrupt SD or other Media Card

Windows Photo/Image Recovery from a damaged SD or Media Card

Q. I accidentally pulled out the SD card from my card reader, without disconnecting the device properly. When I tried to access the images in the SD card, by connecting it to the PC again, it asked me if I want to format the drive. I think if I format it, I will end up losing all my precious photos. Can you suggest me a method to retrieve the lost photos from my SD card?

Recover images from a corrupted SD memory card.

A. Nowdays, digital cameras have become a must have thing, for anyone who likes photography. From amateur to professional photographers, losing their valuable pictures is as good as losing their life, as pictures would have captured some of the most precious moments that can never be got back, and losing them is as good as not having taken them.

Precautions

But all is not lost, if you are quick to respond, and do not make careless mistakes. One of the first things to make sure is to disconnect the SD card from the computer, and avoid saving any further data onto it. It is advised, not to continue using the SD card, and it is always better to seal and store it separately, to avoid further damage.

What next?
The next part includes less human effort, since a good photo recovery software, can complete the remaining job effortlessly. Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery software lets you recover those valuable photos with utmost ease and very less effort. The software is equipped with a powerful signature search algorithm, which searches for all your lost image files, and recovers them efficiently.

The software is also capable of recovering photos present in RAW format, and also media files like audio and video files present in different formats. Try it Now!

Important!!
There are some precautions that you must take, before you start using the software. They can be summarized as follows:
• Never install this recovery software on the drive from which you want to recover data.
• Never save any data onto the drive from which you are recovering the data.
• Connect the SD card to another computer using the card reader, and make sure, that it is getting detected, and is free of physical damages. Simple Steps to Photo recovery

Follow the simple steps given below, to successfully recover all your lost image files.

Step 1: Launch the application, by double clicking the desktop shortcut, or by selecting the icon from the Programs List in the Start Menu. The Main window pops up as shown in Figure a. The window displays all the physical drives connected to the PC. Select the physical drive from which you want to retrieve the data, and click on the Next button.

Figure a: Main window

Step 2: When you click the Next button, a new window displays the file types that can be recovered using the software, as shown in Figure b. Select the file types you wish to recover, or click on the Select All button, to select all the file types, and click on the Next button.

Figure b: Select file type

Step 3: As you click the Next button, the application starts scanning the selected drive, for specified file types and lists all the files it finds in a tree format, grouped according to their file types, as shown in Figure c.

Figure c: Found files and folders

Step 4: Click on the Save button. As soon as you click the Save button, a window to select the destination drive to store the recovered files is displayed as shown in Figure d. Select the destination drive, and click on the OK button. Note: You can also choose to save the data in a compressed format, using the Compress data option All the data will be saved into a new folder by name "DigitalMediaRecovery XXXX *" in the selected destination. You can also choose to burn the data onto a CD/DVD as shown in Figure d.