How to Recover Lost Photos from CF Card?
Compact Flash cards were invented by the SanDisk Corporation in 1991. CF cards are able to store large amount of data compared to other types of memory cards. CF cards use 16-bit transfer bus because; it is having 50-pin interface. Type I and Type II are the two types of CF memory cards, which use flash technology to store large number of photos. CF cards are able to work at 3.3V and also 5V. CF memory cards are most commonly used in digital cameras, personal digital assistants, mp3 players etc. CF card read or write data with the host device using CF protocol, which is having parallel data bus width and the signals between host device and CF card are asynchronous. CF cards use micro controller based controller, which acts as a bridge between host device and CF memory card. Generally, CF cards are used to store digital photos, so there are more chances of photo loss due to logical failures. There are many CF card recovery tools available to recover lost digital camera photos from CF card. You can also use relevant digital photo recovery tool to recover lost photos from CF memory cards.
Sometimes, after capturing images, suddenly switching off the camera may results in photo loss. When you click a number of images one after the other, camera needs time to write those images to the memory card. If you switch off your camera while camera is still buffering, those images may result in data loss. Sometimes, due to this problem you may also come across different types of system errors, which may not allow you to access those images from the CF memory card. In few cases, deleting images or formatting CF memory card of digital camera in computer may also result in data loss. For instance, if you format your CF memory card in computer, whose default file system is NTFS then while formatting you may select NTFS file system for your CF memory card. But, most of the CF memory cards support FAT32 file system. So, digital camera may not be able to recognize NTFS formatted CF memory card as a result, it may also not allow you to access the images from the CF memory card resulting in photo loss.
So, to avoid CF memory card errors, format it in digital camera itself. After capturing images, wait for some time so that images get completely written to CF memory card then switch it off. Creating backup is the best solution to avoid photo loss problems. If you have not created the backup of your essential photos then you can use relevant photo recovery tool to recover lost data from the CF memory card.
Remo Recover (Windows) – Media Edition, has an ability to recover lost or deleted photos, audios and videos even from formatted CF memory cards. You can download the free trial of the software by clicking on the following link http://www.remosoftware.com/remo-recover-windows.exe .The software also helps you to save your disk space by compressing the data in Zip archives. Canon, Nikon, Fujifilm, Sony, Olympus etc are the major brands of the digital cameras supported by this software. This software is able to support different types of Windows file system like FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 and ExtFAT. This software is simple, safe, fast and easy to use. But, make sure that you are installing this software on healthy drive. Do not save recovered data on affected hard drive to prevent permanent data loss.