How to recover deleted photos from CF card using compact flash card recovery software?
Compact flash memory cards are most commonly used in high end digital cameras and all digital SLR’s camera. CF memory cards offer high capacity ranging from 2MB to 100GB. The CF memory cards which are having low capacity up to 2GB use FAT16 file system whereas high capacity CF cards which are higher than 2GB size uses FAT32 file system. A standard CF, CF high speed, faster CF3.0 and fastest 4.0 are four types of data transfer rate in CF memory cards. These CF cards can be used in different embedded system, which serves as hard disk drives because CF memory cards are compatible with IDE or ATA hard drive standards. The two different form factors of CF memory cards are type I and type II, where they physically differ in their width. Type I CF memory cards can fit in Type II connector but, Type II CF memory card cannot fit in type I CF memory card connector. CF memory cards use PCMCIA bus for interconnection which was originally used to expand computer storage.
CF cards are capable of storing data like audio, video and photos. Sometimes, due to logical failures, your CF memory card may get corrupt. In such a case, using third party utilities like compact flash card recovery software is the best solution to recover deleted photos, audio, and videos. In some cases, CF memory card may get corrupt due to virus attack. File system damage occurs, when i-node and super block information of file system get corrupted. Super block information includes information which is concerned with file system size, type and status of partition, Meta data information, number of data blocks and i-nodes. I-node is a data structure in UNIX, which includes information related to file or directory in file system. If the program which is already corrupted accesses i-node and super block information directly then there may be chances of file system corruption. This problem may make it impossible for you to locate, read or write data stored in file system. Sometimes, while viewing photos, if you accidentally selected delete all or format option in digital camera then all the photos which are previously captured get deleted resulting in photo loss.
To avoid these problems, creating backup of all important photos is very necessary. When you delete a folder or file which contains photos, the actual contents of the files are not deleted, only the pointers which point to that particular file is deleted making file inaccessible. Actually, contents of folder remain on memory card until you save new data over it. So, avoid using memory card once it is corrupted or files are deleted or lost from it. You can make use or recovery tools to recover deleted data from memory card.
Remo Recover (Windows)-Media Edition, has the ability to recover lost or deleted photos, audios and videos even from formatted memory cards. This software locates particular file and arranges recovered files on the basis of their creation date, size, extension and file name. FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, ExtFAT are the different types of Windows file systems, on which photo recovery is supported by this software. This software is simple, safe, fast and easy to use. But, make sure that you are installing this software on a healthy drive. Do not save recovered data on affected hard drive to prevent permanent data loss.