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Compact Flash Card Photo Video Recovery
Have you ever lost you favorite photos or videos which you saved on the compact flash card? One of the most common situations is to delete them on the compact flash card. How many ways have you worked to find those photos and videos back? Are they flexible? You don't need to be upset if you have failed all your trial, as there is a way to retrieve your deleted photos and videos from the compact flash card with 100% guarantee. That is data recovery software.
Example of deleting files on the compact flash card
I deleted some photos and videos off my compact flash card hours ago. I think they are ugly and ridiculous, and as a result I delete all of them. But my friends told me that they want them just now. They like them somehow. But I can send nothing to them, because I have deleted those photos and videos. I want to get them back and send them to my friends. But I don't know how I can do it. Is there any possible way for me to retrieve my lost photos and videos? -Sam from Canada
Steps to restore lost photo and video from compact flash card with data recovery software
You can get back your lost photos and videos after them being deleted off the compact flash card with the help of data recovery software. What's more, they will be retrieved within just a few minutes. The reason is that its steps are very easy to operate. Here are them as follows:
Recover photo video from formatted CF card
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the CF card to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.
Other data loss situations happen to compact flash card
We have talked about that one of the most common data loss situations is deletion either by error or by intention. So there are other common data loss situations and uncommon data loss situations may happen to compact flash card when we use it. How many kinds of them have you met? Here are some of the below:
1. Accidental or intentional formatting. It is other common data loss situations happen to compact flash card in daily life. It is likely to click on the format all button among so many options because of careless, which lead to information loss. Another situation is that you format your compact flash card by intention due to some reasons.
2. Virus attacks. It is also one of the most common data loss scenarios we may encounter when using the compact flash card. In general, virus and worms are hidden in the software and files which are not from the official sites. Such as malware and adware.
3. Power failure. Such data loss case is not that common, in fact. There is a chance to lose files saved on the compact flash card when it connects to the computer but the computer closed suddenly.
4. CF card becomes RAW file system due to unknown reasons
5. Other similar information loss cases may happen to compact flash card.
How to use compact flash card correctly in order to avoid losing files
We should think of ways to avoid data loss situations according to so many data loss cases above. It is still not an amazing thing to lose information due to various reasons though we can get back our losses with the assistant of data recovery program. As a matter of fact, we can avoid some losses as long as we use the compact flash card properly. Here are some correct usages to compact flash card as follows:
1. Do not download software and files from the distrusted and unauthorized sites. It is better to download them on the official sites, because most of software and information from the suspicious sites may contain virus and worms.
2. Do not put it in heat or corrosive liquid. Such environment may damage files saved on the compact flash card easily. What’s more, that data corruption is hard to be restored.
3. Try not to remove files by cut and paste. You can not find those files neither on the source disk nor the object drive if they are lost during the process of cut and paste. So you’d better copy the needed data and delete them when that information is pasted on the aim disk successfully.
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