You have lost the only copy of precious photos, and you need to recover them. Recovering digital photos from hard drives, memory cards, digital cameras and other players is one of the most common data recovery tasks. Digital storage media are quite fragile compared to photographic prints, and digital camera users often make just a single copy of their precious pictures before deleting the original. This results in tragedy when the copy cannot be read.

If some of your irreplaceable photos seem to be lost: don't be upset! Unless the medium on which they are stored has been physically damaged, there is a great chance that you can get them back. However, if the images were stored on a rewriteable medium such as a hard disk or memory card, some or all of the image files may have been overwritten. If this is the case, at least don't write to that disc or card any more until all the options for recovering the data have been exhausted.

The easy recovery software - Data Recovery Wizard will recover the lost, deleted and formatted digital photos on the hard drive or removable media. Works with all hard disk and every type of digital card readers appear as a drive letter in your local PC. If you have met an error: Media is not formatted would you like to format now? The Data Recovery Wizard will save the day! Don't lose great shots of those special moments! Data Recovery Wizard will recover them for you! Our data recovery software can easily recover the lost digital photos, Audio & Video files from removable media as well as hard drives.

The Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is helpful in the following cases of data loss.

• Provide Image Recovery after corruption caused by that the card is pulled out while the camera is on.
• Provide Photo Recovery after corruption caused by that the camera is turned off during a write process.
• Provide Digital Media Recovery after formatting of the digital storage media.
• This Picture Recovery utility recovers data lost caused by using media between different cameras/computers.
• Provide Picture Recovery after accidental deletion of the photo.
• Received an error: Media is not formatted would you like to format now?

Use the free Data Recovery Wizard to recover photo images, movies and sound files such as BMP, JPG, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, GIFF, MP3, WAV, MPEG, MPG, AVI and MOV from floppy, Memory Sticks, Flash Cards, Sony Memory Stick, IBM Micro Drive, SD Cards, MMC Cards, XD Cards, Secure Digital Card, Hard Disks, Zip Disks, Mini Disks.

Accidental deletion from the hard disk

If you accidentally deleted the photo images from your hard disk, please:

• Check the Windows Recycle Bin.
• If they are not in the Recycle Bin then, please use the Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition for the best chance of recovery.
• Formatted files (including photos, pictures, images, audios and videos) may also be recovered by using the Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

Recover the photos from a memory card

If the images you want to recover are on a Flash memory card or in your camera or iPod, please:

• Connect the memory card, camera or player so that it can be accessed like a removable hard drive.
• Use the free digital photo recovery tool - the Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.
• If you received an error: "Media is not formatted would you like to format now?", lost photos may also be recovered by using the Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

To recover data from a drive containing lost photos, follow these steps:

1. Click the "Complete Recovery" button on the main window of Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition.

2. Select the file types you want to recover and then you can see a list of your logical volumes found on your computer.

3. Choose one of logical and press the "Next" button (if you are familiar with file system details, you can change "OPTION" before pressing the "Next" button).

4. Data Recovery Wizard will read file system on selected volume.

5. This step will launch the Intelligent Searching interface to search the file system which has been used in this volume.

6. You will see Select Recognized Partition Page which list found file systems in this volume.

7. Please select one or more partitions with the file systems which you are sure or unsure.

8. And then, the Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will enter Building directories interface to find files.

9. After this scanning is finished, you will see file/folder tree.

10. You can click "File Preview" to see thumbnails or right click to preview the photo.

11. Select the file or folder that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button.

12. Select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

Note: You can also see the photos in Raw folders.

Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is not only software used to recover deleted photos, but also could be used to recover office document, video, music, email, etc. under Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista/2008/Windows 7.

Caution: Saving file(s) to the partition or drive where you are recovering data, for it may result in overwriting data and permanent data loss!!!

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