Personal Computer Lessons

Recovering photos from a crashed hard drive

Admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:32:36 +0000

I am not able to access the drive on which my wedding photos were stored. I had no other backups. Those photos were a part of my life. Is there any way I can get back my lost photos?

It’s inevitability, and it always happens when you’re least prepared – the hard drive crash. Though you are not able to access your drive, it is still possible to recover your lost wedding photos that are of utmost important to you.

The best software to recover files from crashed hard drive is to use Remo Recover Photo (Windows), which is easy to use recovery tool that ensures absolute recovery of lost or deleted photos, images, videos and graphics from all popular storage devices.

The software employs advanced disk scanning technology to completely scan and recover pictures, videos and other media files. Compatible with almost all versions of Windows, the software is built with user-friendly interface and performs complete recovery even in complex situations.

Software is capable to recover the lost photos, music and video files after the occurrence of any of the following situations:

Accidental deletion
Formatting the computer hard drive or memory card
Corruption/damage of the storage device
Corruption/damage of the file system of your computer system
Turning off the digital camera during a write process
Pulling out the memory card without switching OFF the camera

No matter whether you have lost your photos due to formatting, deletion or corruption of the hard drive, Remo Recover will recover it all.

How to recover pictures from SD cards

Admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:57:27 +0000

The Fujifilm FinePix J28 camera features 3x optical zoom, SR AUTO and face detection, slim body, and memory card slots compatible with SD and SDHC cards. The data saved on these cards can be viewed in the camera or can also be transferred to the computer system. However, the data on these memory cards cannot be accessed when the card gets corrupted or damaged. In such data loss situations, a powerful Picture recovery software to recover photos always helps.

We usually encounter any of the error messages like “Card Error”, “Read Error”, and “Write Error” while trying to view photos on the LCD screen of the camera. The output of all the above error messages remains the same – inaccessibility of photographs saved in the card.

There are few reasons that account for the appearance of the above mentioned error messages:

When memory card is corrupted/damaged.
Memory card is not properly formatted.
Memory card contacts require cleaning.

Remo Recover Photo (Windows) is easy to use recovery tool that ensures absolute recovery of lost or deleted photos, images, videos and graphics from all popular storage devices and restores them at user-specified location. With no prior technical knowledge required, this tool to recover photos allows even a novice to perform recovery. The tool not only supports recovery from memory cards, but from other storage media including memory sticks, removable drives and hard drives.

Digital Photo Recovery for Mac machines

Admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:08:05 +0000

In earlier days, the entire photography process included, taking pictures on a camera with a photosensitive film, and then developing the film, to get the image in a printed format. Nowadays, it just takes the click of a button, on a digital camera, to take photos, and within seconds you can preview, edit and transfer these photos.

It is when we lose, that we realize the importance of something. This is true in case of photos, because, as long as the photos are present on our system, we really do not care much about their existence, but the moment we lose these photos, we get desperate, to get back the photos.

Loss of photos, can take place due to a number of reasons including virus attacks, improper usage of the flash memory card, system crash etc. In case of digital photo recovery for Mac machines, it is suggested, that you go for the best photo recovery software, which assures recovery of all lost photos.

Photo recovery for Mac machines is made easy by the use of REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition, which is specially designed for Mac machine users. The software lets the users recover lost/deleted files from IDE / ATA / SATA / SCSI hard disk drives, SD Cards, CF Cards, XD Cards, Memory Sticks, external Zip drives and USB hard drives.

How to recover accidentally deleted photos?

Admin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:05:12 +0000

Does this situation sound familiar? Yes, it has become very common now a day, as most of us who use digital cameras intentionally or unintentionally tend to deleted photos and later realize that the photos deleted were of great importance and sob for the lost photographs. We usually assume that once photos are deleted are gone forever and carp ourselves for whatever mistake happened.

But it’s completely wrong; Disk Doctors Photo Recovery Software will save you from panic! Don’t let your expensive photos evaporate easily. Those priceless photographs can be recovered using appropriate recovery software.

The software which best suits this situation is Disk Doctors Photo Recovery Software. You can effortlessly recover accidentally deleted photos using this software. Most digital cameras, camcorders and memory cards are supported by this software.

Software helps recovering the deleted photos unless and until they have not got overwritten by any other new photos or files (If you have deleted the photos from a hard drive). In order to overcome this fault you need to stop using the device on which you have deleted the photos.

Disk Doctors photo recovery software allows you to search and preview deleted photos in a simple and perceptive way. In just a click of the mouse you can preview the lost pictures. It is one of the most reliable recovery products on the market, which restores most of the photos as compared to other products.

What if Microsoft Outlook fails?

farheen — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:47:31 +0000

Software failure, viruses, human errors, power failures, sabotage and hard drive failures are just few examples that can destroy data on your hard drive. Data on your hard drive includes documents, pictures, emails and other files. Emails are the most important data on your hard drive. Outlook data corruption is one of the most common problems faced by Outlook users.

Let us first discuss the various causes for Outlook failure. If you face any problem like opening your personal or offline folders, you should suspect that your outlook has got corrupted. The most common problems faced by outlook users are: Corruption caused due to 2 GB .pst file size limit, case of accidentally deleted messages, contacts and notes, corruption inside the .pst file header, corruption caused due to compacting of the .pst file and corruption of .pst file when used over network. Apart from common causes of corruption mentioned above, there are many other facts that cause your outlook to fail, like hard disk failure, virus attack and sabotage as mentioned earlier.

Email Recovery software can come to your rescue, to help you get back all your lost emails. Is there any thing you can do before your outlook fails? A preventive measure that you can always take is regularly backing up outlook pst files. Choose an appropriate backup solution that suits your need. However, a home computer user will require just a simple procedure of copying your pst files to a CD/DVD. But, for a business house or professionals, whose pst files are very large in size, a reliable and automated email backup software should be helpful.

Many people actually start to backup after they lose data. The best practice is to backup your crucial data, before you encounter a data loss situation. Thus, to conclude backing up Microsoft Outlook emails is a critical operation for every Outlook user that would regret losing them.

Common misconceptions of digital media deletion

Admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:45:08 +0000

If you have ever accidentally deleted a folder of file you needed then surely you are aware of how frustrating a problem this can be. Not only have you lost a file it was lost due to your own silly error. This is bad enough when the file is a document or important record. But, when the inadvertently deleted file is an image file, the feeling of helpless stupidity is even greater. Oddly few people realize that a file deleted on a PC is not really removed from their computer. When we delete a file the difference is that the space the file resided in is marked as vacant. As long as we don’t overwrite the area with a layer of new data, the information in the file remains intact and can actually be recovered fairly easily.

There are of course different types of file recovery needed. One approaches photo recovery much differently than one might approach recovery of an email.

The importance of digital photo targeted recovery software

Admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:41:16 +0000

The differences exist because data recovery is based upon two things; the first is the file extension the document or image is stored under. A program for digital image recovery will recognize any data stored under a given extension and present it for recovery. The second is the actual file structure. Different types of data are stored in different structures of binary code. Better digital photo recovery software can recognize the corresponding patterns in that code and restructure it as the original content file.

Digital photo recovery will scan for and recover JPG, TIF, PNG, BMP and GIF files based upon their file extension. This is fairly simple image recovery and to be honest can be accomplished by most generic data recovery programs.

Rescuing hard to find raw camera files

Admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 18:34:23 +0000

Now, where one needs a better program for digital photo recovery is when the files deleted either by accident or due to mechanical error are in RAW camera format. This is a proprietary file structure belonging to the camera manufacturer. When pictures are first taken this is the coded structure the camera stores them in. And, each camera manufacturer has their own special code structure. Nikon files are only used on Nikon cameras and Olympus files on Olympus. For a total digital photo recovery solution one must have a program that is able to scan for and find lost or corrupted RAW camera files.

The process to recover digital photos is quite complex on a hex code or binary level. But because companies such as Disk Doctors have developed user-friendly programs expressly to crack that code, anyone can easily find and recover precious digital photographic memories.