Digital photos can be lost in many ways. Accidental deletion of photo or by mistake you pressed Delete All button of digital camera, corruption in SD card, formatting of SD cards, read/write error, virus attack, shut down of the system while transferring photos from digital camera to PC and due to low battery in digital camera while transferring photos to PC are some of the common reasons for losing photos.

A photo not only carries one's special moment of life but also carries one's emotions. Losing photos of any events like marriage, wedding anniversary, first birthday of your baby can be depressing. However, you can still recover lost digital photos from SD card while you have transferred the photos by using SD card recovery tools.

This is because when you lose photos from SD card, the system does not erase the data completely. Instead, it will mark that space free. When you click new photos, it will stored on space marked as available for overwriting of the deleted photos.

Recovery of photos in all possible condition

Recovery of lost photos depends on the usage of the SD card. To get back those photos you have to follow these steps:

Stop using the SD card for further usages which will lead to overwriting of lost photos

If you have lost photos from SD card, remove the SD card from the camera and store it safely till you recover lost photos from it

Possible steps to recover lost digital photos:

The lost photos can be easily recover with the help of SD card recovery software. To select a good recovery software, search on the web. As there are various recovery software available to recover lost photos so you can choose an appropriate one but before selecting the good one you should remember that the software is user friendly and read only software. To recover the lost photos you should follow these steps:

• Remove the SD card from the camera

• To access the SD card insert it to the card slot of your PC or you need to use an external card reader

• Download the SD card recovery software to your PC

• Follow the instructions as prompted by the SD card recovery software

• Store the recovered photos to the hard drive of PC.

I recommend you to use Stellar phoenix photo recovery software which is a powerful software and can recover lost, deleted and even formatted photos, videos and audio files from Corrupted SD Card, SDHC cards, MMC, CF, Picture and XD cards. It works for both windows and Mac Machine.