The new Canon Power Shot SX20 IS, is a powerful camera that has a 20x optical zoom coupled with a 4x digital zoom. Every single detail, no matter how distant the object, can be captured with the camera. The power-shot uses SD, SDHC, MMC, MMCplus, HC MMCplus memory cards for storage. It saves images and videos in JPEG and MOV format respectively. The camera and memory card are always susceptible to errors and other problems. Most of these errors get fixed after formatting the card, but this deletes the pictures presently stored on it. This is why a back-up is a must. You can simply restore data if anything were to go wrong. If there is no back-up available, you can use a Digital camera data recovery tool.

An instance of this could be when you have taken lots of pictures on the camera and then you need to need to upload the images to the system. You connect the camera to the computer and thereafter, you realize that your camera is blank. All your pictures are gone.

At the moment, you might not be interested in the reason behind this, once the problem has come and gone knowing why seldom helps, but it prevents future mistakes of the same kind. In this case the card would have been formatted. That is why the images on the card were deleted. The formatting may have been accidental, which is why you wouldn't have realized it. If you did it on purpose, without taking a back-up, it was probably out of ignorance.

If you have any other copy of the images—great. Just use them on the system and if you want them on the card, transfer them there. If you don't have a back-up, use a camera recovery tool. These are software which scan the system's hard drive and salvage data from it. Digital camera data recovery can easily be performed using reliable tools. The use of any unscrupulous software could damage the files beyond repair. Even after a drive is formatted, the old information is saved on the drives memory. This is however inaccessible to the computer directly. Camera recovery software are designed to retrieve data from these parts of the drive.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a user-friendly camera recovery software which support both Windows and Mac OS. The software is safe and can recover files of any type since it supports all popular formats (GIF, TIF, JPEG, AVI, MOV, BMP, etc.). Thanks to the simple GUI, it can be used by first time users with ease.