Causes lead to loss data

For Windows and USB

1.       Virus attack

2.       Wrong operation

3.       Reinstallation of windows system

4.       Suddenly electricity cutting off

For camera cards

1.       Mistakenly delete photos

2.       Accidently press “format” button

3.       Shut down camera due to low battery power before save photos

4.       Shot photos before another is not saved well

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What should we do if lost data?

1.       Stop any operations that may rewrite data on disk that lost data ever been.

2.       Ask professional man to help you get back data or download suitable data recovery program to rescue data by yourself. Before recovering the data, we should know the file format of lost data.

Common Windows Data Recovery Software

1.       Recuva
This is a free file recovery program that makes it extremely easy to locate files that were once thought to be lost forever. It can recover lost data by wrong operation and computer freezing from computer, memory card and mp3 player. Recuva supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS file systems. However, freeware has limitation in functions of data rescue; sometimes, it can not scan out all the files and fully recover them.

2.       Card Data Recovery

This program is the professional card data recovery utility. It can recover lost pictures or files from all kinds of cards including memory cards, SD card, CF card, XD card, SIM card. Besides, you can also use it to rescue data from computer hard drives, USB, memory sticks, etc. The program is very easy to use, even you are a green one for PC, you can use it freely. It is much cheaper than abnormal data recovery, only needs $19.95, you can get back precious images back.

3.       R-Studio

R-studio is professional premium software for data recovery sold at $79.99. Its trial version allows you recover data files less than 64kb. You can preview the files more than 64kb by double clicks. It supports FAT/NTFS (Windows), HFS/HFS+ (Mac), UFS1/UFS2 & Ext2FS/3FS file systems and functions on local and network disks, even if partitions are formatted, damaged or deleted.

4.       Power Data Recovery

Power Data Recovery is easy-to-use and professional software to recover read-only files. It can recover data lost by common problems. For example, wrong delete files, format partition, system collapse, virus and so on. Power Data Recovery supports FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 file systems. It’s also sold at $79.99.

5.       iCare Undelete Free

iCare Undelete Free is used to recover data erased accidentally, emptied from recycle bin and deleted by clicking SHIFT+DELETE for free. It can run on Windows Server 2008, 2003, 2000, XP and Vista system. Recoverable files will list on the left of software window and they can be recovered automatically by 1-click operation. iCare Undelete Free has function of preview, too.

6.       Recover My Files

Recover My Files specializes in recovering text document, picture document, music and video files and zip compressed files. It supports following file formats: mpegpdf, pmd, png, ppt, pst, pub, rar, rtf, sdr, tar, txt, tiff, viso, wav, wmf, wpd, xls, zdp, zip, asf, avi, bmp, csv doc, dbx, dwg, gif, gzip, html, jpeg, mdb, mov and mp3. If your deleted files belong to this range, Recover my files will be a good choice. Free to try, and charge for $69.95.

7.       FreeUndelete

FreeUndelete is free Windows data recovery software for files accidentally deleted on a NTFS (used by default in Windows XP/2000/NT) and FAT32 file systems. It has simple functions, and can only recover data that is emptied from recycle bin.