Have you ever accidentally deleted a photo on your camera, computer,
USB drive, or anywhere else? What you might not know is that you can
usually restore those pictures—even from your camera’s memory stick. Windows tries to prevent you from making a big mistake by providing
the Recycle Bin, where deleted files hang around for a while—but
unfortunately it doesn’t work for external USB drives, USB flash drives,
memory sticks, or mapped drives. Luckily there’s another way to recover
deleted files.
The first piece of software that you’ll want to try is called Recuva,
and it’s extremely easy to use—just make sure when you are installing
it, that you don’t accidentally install that stupid Yahoo! toolbar that
nobody wants.
Now that you’ve installed the software, and avoided an awful toolbar
installation, launch the Recuva wizard and let’s start through the
process of recovering those pictures you shouldn’t have deleted.
The first step on the wizard page will let you tell Recuva to only
search for a specific type of file, which can save a lot of time while
searching, and make it easier to find what you are looking for.
Next you’ll need to specify where the file was, which will obviously
be up to wherever you deleted it from. Since I deleted mine from my
camera’s SD card, that’s where I’m looking for it.
The next page will ask you whether you want to do a Deep Scan. My
recommendation is to not select this for the first scan, because usually
the quick scan can find it. You can always go back and run a deep scan a
second time.
And now, you’ll see all of the pictures deleted from your drive,
memory stick, SD card, or wherever you searched. Looks like what
happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas after all…
If there are a really large number of results, and you know exactly
when the file was created or modified, you can switch to the advanced
view, where you can sort by the last modified time. This can help speed
up the process quite a bit, so you don’t have to look through quite as
many files.
At this point, you can right-click on any filename, and choose to
Recover it, and then save the files elsewhere on your drive. Awesome!
And the same is the process for recovering any file type from computer drives and USB drives.
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