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Recover Photos Kingston CF Card Accidental Formatting
Do you like to take photos? What would you do if those pictures were inadvertently lost? You format your Kingston compact flash card on which those photos are saved by mistake, for example. Do you have any idea how to get back that lost information from the formatted compact flash card? Don't panic if you happen to encounter such trouble, because you have the ability to retrieve all your lost pictures with the help of data recovery software as long as they have not been overwritten.
Case of losing pictures saved on the Kingston CF card after an accidental formatting
All my photos saved on my Kingston compact flash card are lost due to an accidental formatting. I just intended to reorder them after I named them one by one, but unfortunately clicked the format all button. Consequently, I lost all pictures. I have worked a day without taking a rest to figure out how can I get them back, but there is still no progress. Is there a way that is able to retrieve all my losses after format? Help me, please. By the way, I don't use the formatted compact flash card. –Jim from New York
How to retrieve pictures from the formatted Kingston CF card
It is not a big problem any more that restores lost pictures from the formatted compact flash card. With the assist of data recovery software, you are capable of getting back all your losses quickly and efficiently. Here are steps below to guide you retrieve the lost photos:
Recover data 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.
Correct actions to compact flash card in case of losing data
It seems that data loss is a common case in our daily life. Some of them are due to human error, such as example above that format the compact flash card by mistake and others. So such kind of data loss situation could be avoided if we are careful enough and use the compact flash card properly. Here are some correct actions to compact flash card in case of losing files as follows:
1. Think twice when you want to delete files saved on the compact flash card or format the compact flash card itself. You can perform operations above when you are sure that data is useless or there is backup.
2. Put the compact flash card away from heat and corrosive liquid. Those matters have the chance to damage the flash chips of compact flash card which result in data loss situations.
3. Plug the compact flash card into a specific card reader or related one if you want to access files saved on it on the computer.
4. Try to avoid the reformatting action. Do not format the memory card again after it is formatted if you need to restore information from it.
5. Download software and files from the official sites which you will save on the compact flash card. Try to do this in order to avoid virus attacks.
Various files types that supported by data recovery software
Do you just save photos on your compact flash card? Have you thought that whether other files types can be got back by data recovery tool? Believe it or not, there are people wondered so. It is not sophisticated to answer that question. Of course data recovery software is able to retrieve other files types when they are lost due to some reasons. In fact, there is the opportunity that nearly all kinds of files types can be restored. Here are some of them as follows: videos, pictures, audio files, word documents, excel form, texts, e-mail and other common files types.
Other common brands of compact flash card
Kingston is the brand of compact flash card, which is one of the most popular manufactures of compact flash card in reality. People can purchase storage devices from it with the warranty and quality guarantee. As a matter of fact, such reliable compact flash card and other memory card brands is not only the Kingston one. There are many other brands in the market. Here are some of them as follows: Samsung, SanDisk, Toshiba, Sony, Transcend Information, Maxell, LEXAR, Yisheng, and Kingmax.
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