Memory stick is one of the most commonly used device to store data and since these devices are easy to carry and helps you to transfer data or store data easily and safely. However these devices are prone to data loss, while most people use memory stick to store their important data on them, recovery of data becomes more significant.
Memory stick photo recovery is the process of recovering digital pictures, audio and video files from corrupted, damaged, formatted or inaccessible storage media. Photo deletion or loss may be due to either hardware or software failures.
Recovering photos from memory stick after hardware failure – After a hardware failure, if the memory stick is still accessible then use the memory stick recovery software to take the image of the drive and then try recovering photos and other data from it using the image file. If your drive or card is badly corrupted / damaged that your PC / laptop cannot recognize it even after connecting it, then you should consult a data recovery service provider to recover data from that drive.
Recovering pictures, audio and video files after logical failure – The most common reasons for logical failure are:
- Accidental deletion of photos, audio and video files
- Corruption of the memory stick or any storage media
- Corruption of file system
- Accidental formatting of the storage media
- Errors during move or copy process
Tips to be followed to perform photo recovery
- Don’t write / save any new data to the storage drive from which you wish to recover from. Every possible write operation may over-write the existing data that you need to recover
- In case your drive is inaccessible or severely corrupt, create a disk image of your drive and select picture retrieval software which can read disk images and recover photos from those image files
- Save any recovered photos to a drive different from the recovered drive as it does not involve overwriting lost / deleted data
- Back up you data regularly so that you don’t have to be worried about photo loss again
A good photo recovery software can recover your photos, audio, video and other media files from your memory stick even after it is formatted, corrupted / damaged. It should be able to recover all photos, images, videos and graphics from digital camera memory, memory card, SD card, XD card, MMC, USB drive or hard disk drive. Additionally it should recover multimedia files from formatted / re-formatted hard drive, deleted or lost partition, software malfunction, system crash, corruption etc.
Remo Recover is one such software that can recover photos, music and video files efficiently. It also helps you retrieve pictures from corrupted / formatted memory sticks, flash memory cards such as SD, XD, SDHC, MMC etc. It will also allows you to recover RAW image files from various popular digital cameras like Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Sony etc. Various popular RAW image file types such as CR2, CRW, NEF, RAW etc.