Digital cameras use various types of memory cards to store pictures. These memory cards can get easily damaged or corrupt in many instances. Once they become corrupt, all your saved pictures become inaccessible. If you insert a corrupt memory card in your digital camera, you may encounter various randomly generated error messages. In such corruption scenarios, you would be required to fix a corrupt memory card by formatting. Since formatting erases the old entries by installing a new file system, you must restore lost pictures from a backup. What if you do not have a backup? Fortunately, there are ways to evade such situations. You can always rely on a third-party picture recovery software to recover pictures from a memory card, irrespective of the data loss cause.

The prospects of recovering lost or deleted pictures highly depend on the selected recovery software. While few promising-looking ones can inflict damage to the data, there are others which are reliable and safe to use. Therefore, choosing a good software is a must. You must observe the following points before zeroing in on any application from the Internet:

Choose a versatile software 

An efficient picture recovery software should be versatile in nature. It should perform recovery in almost all data loss instances including accidental deletion, memory card corruption, unintentional or intentional formatting, file system damage or virus attacks. Additionally, it should recover pictures from all storage media including memory cards, memory sticks, hard drives, digital cameras, external hard drives, USBs and other removable media.

Choose a software which lets you preview recoverable data 

You may find a plethora of recovery software on the Web which would assure you of absolute recovery. But, it is very important to analyze a particular software very carefully. In fact, you must first shortlist few software which provides a sneak peek into the recoverable data, and then select a particular one after viewing the results.

Choose a software from a reputed company

Finally, you must select a software from a reputed data recovery company which has a rich experience in providing effective data loss solutions. You can do a little research on this to attain 100 per cent picture recovery results.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an easy-to-use application which recovers lost or deleted pictures from all major memory card and digital camera brands. Available for both Windows and Mac, this picture recovery application recovers all formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP etc.