There are various digital storage media available, starting from memory cards that come integrated with digital cameras to high-capacity micro drives. Users trust these media, irrespective of the format in use, more than traditional films. But with these new media, a new set of photo loss problems also exists. Now, you have to deal with problems like file system corruption, media reformatting, power surges, and the most common-accidental file deletion from camera. When this occurs, you require an immediate backup that contains all the photo(s) you lost. If not available or currently not in good state, a good alternative to backup is to use a Digital camera recovery utility.

Almost all cameras include a 'Delete All' option, though under different names, that allows you to delete all the existing pictures from camera's internal memory or the digital memory card that is inserted in the camera. Using this option accidentally might bring severe photo loss situations.

As a practical instance, suppose you desire to delete a single undesired photo from the camera or its card. Because you didn't understand the complex camera features properly or by mistake, you use the associated 'Delete All' option and as a result, delete all the existing pictures. You confirm to the request that asks you to delete the pictures forever. Later, you realize that instead of one, you have deleted your all precious photographs. Such situations are quite critical for a photo-enthusiastic user.

Recovery of Lost Photos

In either case of logical photo loss situation, camera recovery is always a possibility. When you delete any picture from your camera or its memory card, you actually remove its entry from file system, rather deleting the original data bits. The storage space occupied by the picture is marked as available and can be replaced by other files. Thus, until this storage space is overwritten and replaced by some other information, chances are that you can recover your lost photos.

The Camera recovery software are available that are truly based on this principle and allows you to recover the lost photos from all types of camera and digital storage media. This utility is available for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. The tool incorporates high-end scanning algorithms to scan and recover lost data.