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How to Recover Corrupted Picture Files and Images

2008-10-07T12:23:00.000+05:30

When we think about the data loss in our memory card or digital cameras it makes us shutter and frustrating. The images and photos are our precious and unforgettable assets in our life which we used to capture and store in our digital cameras. Although these newly introduced gadgets like digital camera provide us an easy and reliable usage of capturing beautiful and memorable moments.

These cameras consist of various important devices which performs the functionality to get your photos and images in a stylish way. Sometimes we accidentally delete or the memory card inside the camera becomes inaccessible to work which ultimately results in the loss of our precious images and photos.

When we capture any photo or image in our digital camera it gets stored in memory card or any other storage media. These storage media are quite fragile as compared to photographic prints and data lost is often frequent in these storage Medias. The digital camera users do not pay attention towards backup and often make a single copy of their beautiful photos before deleting the original copy.

The tragedy of photos loss may also occur by some virus attack when we attach our cameras with a computer for data transfer which comprises of viruses. The memory card inside the camera is a sensitive device and can fall under corruption without any knowledge to user.

The various reasons of images and photo loss given above realizes us to think about the precautions and security of data and images so that we will not get panic or frustrated when the accident or disaster will occur.

The best and most important precaution is always having a backup of our data and images. We should always try to keep our camera placed in a dry and dust free environment so that it will not be affected by virus or physical environment. It is always advisable to keep camera in padded and watertight case for safety. There are also photo recovery software’s available in the market you can try them to recovery your images if you ever fall a victim of photo loss.

The best and most reliable recovery software is Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software which has an increasing demand in the market. Photo recovery software support photo lost due to any virus attack, hardware-software malfunction. This software consist of an easiest and fastest software utility tool for restoration of any type of digital files folders including JPG, JPEG, TIF, GIF, TIFF, AVI, PNG, BMP, 3GP, MPEG MOV, WAV, MIDI or any other file type stored in your digital media. The photo recovery software recovers lost, deleted, and formatted digital photos, audio and video files from fixed or removable media such as CompactFlash, Memory Stick, and miniSD.

Best way to secure your Photos

2008-09-20T09:28:00.001+05:30

If you find that your camera is not working properly immediately stop working on it and call an expert or else it will overwrite your previous images and files and will lead you in a catastrophic situation of data loss. If you fall a victim of missing or corrupted images and photos, don’t be panic you can use any recovery software available in the market. So purchasing reliable and remarkable recovery software is a needful requirement.

Photo Recovery Software is an easy to use program which can recover lost images from corrupted or accidentally formatted digital camera memory cards. This software is the most award winning software recovers all possible picture files and images including JPG JPEG TIF GIF 3gp MPEG MIDI or any other file type stored in your digital media...full article

Photo Recovery Software Bring Back Pictures and Images

2008-09-18T10:07:00.000+05:30

Last Sunday it was a birthday party of my best friend at his home and suddenly some one pick up my camera and unintentionally delete my priceless party memories. I was really in a shock and panic moment at that time when I heard that my all photos and images are gone for ever.

After this disaster loss which had made my peace of mind restless, I also find that my memory card inside my digital camera was almost corrupted and damaged. The memory card becomes inaccessible and not working as it is very sensitive device that can respond to any wrong function quickly.

When I try to browse my pictures with my camera's built-in preview but I couldn't copy them to the computer. It was sure that the file being written becomes useless and the entire device was also damaged.

Actually Digital storage media are quite fragile compared to photographic prints, and digital camera users often make just a single copy of their precious pictures before deleting the original. This results in tragedy when the copy cannot be read.

Also there come a lot of reasons by which digital photos becomes the victim of corruption and deletion like human error, memory card malfunctions, environmental conditions, accidental deletions of photos, formatting the memory by mistake, low battery backup etc.

One of the most troubles occurs when the card is ejected during the writing or the battery becomes low when the writing process is temporary and the data gets loss without any information. Sometimes the photos which you saved in your computers also become inaccessible as the computer gets attacked by virus or system failure.

We all know that we use cameras only to capture our priceless memories and pictures and do not care for technical functionality of the digital cameras. When we loss pictures then we realize how the precautions and backup is important and necessary for our camera.

Now with the advanced technology there is no need to be panic, you can recover your digital pictures and images with the help of Photo Recovery Software which is almost available in the market

Photo Recovery Software makes it easy to recover lost files, images, video or music. It is the most advanced tool in the sphere of digital photo recovery. It is a reliable solution for photo deletion, digital image recovery or digital photo recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software recovers images deleted from the Recycle Bin or lost after a system failure, reads pictures from formatted or corrupted memory cards, and can even recover digital pictures and RAW files directly from the camera. This software will easily recovers lost digital photos, Audio & Video files from removable media as well as hard drives.

How to Recover Inaccessible Pictures

2008-09-18T10:05:00.000+05:30

For recording videos and taking pictures, through digital camera, memory cards are the most popular storage media. You can store a number of pictures on a small memory card. Memory cards are also easy to handle and access through a computer.

But sometimes, these memory cards may become problematic. When you try to access pictures from the memory card, your digital camera may freeze and you may come across some error messages.

The camera works fine until your switch it off. But when you turn it on again, you may face this issue. The camera fails to read the card. When you try to read your card through computer, the same problem arises.

When you use identical card with your digital camera or computer, it works fine. It means that the problem is with your memory card only. It may possibly be damaged or the data structure of the card has got corrupted.

There are several possible reasons of memory card damage or its file system corruption. It could be due to the incomplete writing operation on the card because you have pulled the card out when writing operation was going on.

The issue can also take place if you have pulled switched off the camera improperly. The memory card data structure can also get damaged due to the virus infection.

Nevertheless the reason of issue, the sure thing is data loss. All of the data stored on the memory card has become inaccessible and at stake of loss. You need to apply some photo recovery measure to recover the lost photos.

The photo recovery in such catastrophic situations is only possible through picture recovery software. These are the specially designed, third party applications which are perfect in doing photo recovery in almost all of the cases of photo loss.

The photo recovery software perform extensive scan of the affected memory card to extract all of the lost pictures and videos from it. This software is really very easy to use and no major user interaction is required while carrying out photo recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software is the best ever made and the award winning picture recovery software which is capable of addressing most of the issues of photo loss. This software comes equipped with an interactive user interface and won’t let you feel the lack of sound technical knowledge.

This photo recovery software performs a thorough scan of the affected memory card, digital camera, hard drive or any other storage media and takes out all of the data stored on them. This photo recovery software is available in two forms, usable with Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

Recover data from Flash Drive

2008-07-05T15:27:00.004+05:30

Now day’s flash drive have become more popular media for everything from computer data, mp3 players and digital cameras. It replaces the floppy disk to carry data .Flash drive are solid-state devices and for that reason they have no moving parts. After simply plugging the USB drive, the flash automatically recognize computer. The lifetime of flash drive is measured in hundreds of thousands of write-erase cycles. Flash drives are expected to last up to 10 years. That's more than twice that of a hard disk.

It is very portable device since it is very small in size. But due to the higher probability of device there are always chances of damage due to environmental factors. Aside from the regular causes of drive failure, flash drives could get wet in the rain, the casing could shatter when it is accidentally dropped, or it could be damaged while inside the camera.The difference in data storage between a flash drive and a regular hard drive or a floppy is due to the data residing on a chip. This allows for a truly random access across the whole media.

There are times the flash disk could not be read by the computer. Though attributed to the computer, this is an error caused by the camera or MP3 player OS. Unplugging the drive while it's writing data may also cause a corrupted flash drive.

Use photo recovery software to recover all your pictures, audio and video. This software recovery algorithm carefully analyzes the entire disk or memory card, locates lost or deleted digital images, and restores them onto the same or different media. Thanks to the new recovery method, Stellar Phoenix photo recovery can recover digital pictures, audios and video that no other program can even see.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is quick and easy to use. The convenient wizard guides you through the recovery process in a step-by-step manner. In fact, you can even recover your pictures by just clicking a single button! No prior experience with data recovery, and no special skills or outstanding technical abilities are needed.

Convenience features include a full-features image browser and viewer, and the ability to filter recoverable images by their size, resolution or pixel dimensions. The free trial edition of photo recovery software features a complete full-size preview that allows you to see the recoverable files before you make a purchase decision.

Safety Precautions for Audio and Video Files

2008-07-01T18:01:00.004+05:30

Always take precautions so that you do not lose your precious audio and video file.Audio and video file are sensitive to heat and water. If due to mistake your audio or video file gets damaged. Take the fallowing precautions immediately:

• Remove the object from further harm
• Seek advice from data recovery company as soon as possible
• Do not remove the objects from any protective covers
• Do not attempt to unwind the disk or tapes
• Do not attempt to clean the disk or tapes
• When handling the disc by careful of the label side as this is easily scratched and can affect the ability to repair.

If your data is lost due to physical damage take help of data recovery services. Stellar Phoenix is one of the best data recovery service providers. It is an ISO-9001-2000 certified company having an experience of over a decade in offering quality hard disk data recovery services to its customers in India and abroad with its well equipped data recovery labs across India.

In case if your photo, audio and video is lost due to corruption, accidental deletion, virus attack you can use photo recovery software. This software supports both windows and Mac operating system. This software employs extremely powerful scanning algorithms to search and locate the lost data and recover them. To check the software capability you can download the free demo version of the software from the site:
http://www.photo-recovery-software.com/download-photo-recovery-software.php

Recover your lost JPEG Images

2008-06-27T18:02:00.002+05:30

One of the most popular file formats for images is JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group). It is also used for the compression of photographic images. Mostly of the digital cameras and other photographic image capture devices use the JPEG format to store their images. It is best on photographs and paintings of realistic scenes. The commonly used filename extensions for files for JPEG compression are .jpg and .jpeg, though .jpe, .jfif and .jif are also used.

Though the jpeg files are safe but sometimes due to any reason like virus attack, accidentally deletion, corruption you lost your JPEG file. You may find that your images split into two or even more parts in digital media. May be the colors of lower parts of your photo is changed or there is a shift of the contents of the photo. You can also face the situation like the e upper portion of the photo is in one file and the lower portion is in another file.

These images are very precious to you. In this type of situation you become frustrated and you do not know what to do. But you need not to worry you can recover all your photos through the photo recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery software is capable of recovering all your data lost or deleted photos from all the popular storage media like computer hard drive, memory cards, and digital cameras. This software is reliable and provides best recovery solution. It supports Windows and Mac both operating system. It works in all instance of photo loss and recovers files in original format. It supports most of the camera file types such as CR2, CRW, RAF, K25, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, X3F, SR2, etc. Through the help of this software we can recover audio and video file format like RPS, AU, OGG, WAV, MP3, AIFF, MIDI, M4A, M4P, and WMA.

Memory Sticks and Flash card Recovery

2008-06-21T11:56:00.001+05:30

Memory Stick digital data storage technology launched by Sony in October 1998. It is used as a storage and transfer media. It is used in a new way to share and transfer pictures, sound, and other data between different electronic devices such as digital cameras and camcorder. It allows users to transfer information one electronic device to another quickly and easily. It is smaller in size than comparable data storage devices, including smart media and compact flash memory. Size and thickness of memory stick is less than that of stick of chewing gum.

A memory card or flash memory card is a solid-state electronic data storage device that is used with digital cameras, Mobile computers, telephones, music players, and other electronic items. They have good storage capability. Flash memory is non-volatile, which means that no power is needed to maintain the information stored in the chip. It offers fast read access times and better shock resistance capability. Due to these features the flash memory devices is very popular now days.

In memory sticks and Flash memory card we generally store our precious or memorable pictures, audios and videos. These electronic devices are safe and secure but some time due to mishandling there data can be corrupted or lost. So always use these devices with proper care. Close all your processes that are related to card and switch off your electronic device before plugging out your memory card or flash card. Always read the instruction written in the manual carefully before using it. If anyhow you have lost the pictures, audios and videos take the help of photo recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery software recovers all your pictures, audios and videos. This software does a deep scanning of the media at the lowest level to recover and retrieve the deleted, corrupted or damaged data. This software is available for both Macintosh and Windows Operating systems.

The software supports all common file formats like Jpeg, Tiff (Motorola & Intel), BMP, GIF and PNG.

This software supports all popular camera file format are as fallows:

Canon(CR2 /CRW), Fuji(RAF), Kodak(K25 /KDC/DCR), Minolta(MRW), Nikon(NEF), Olympus(ORF), Pentax(PEF), Sigma(X3F), Sony(SR2).

The audio file format that software supports are:

RPS, AU, OGG, WAV, MP3, AIFF, MIDI, M4A, M4P, WMA

The video file format that software supports are:
MOV, AVI, ASF, WMV, MP4

Recover Audio and Video Files

2008-06-20T17:25:00.001+05:30

One day one of my friends came with his memory card and he was sad since all his videos and audio file is corrupted. The memory card contains his memorable videos of his marriage anniversary, birthday and etc. It also contains some audio files. He told me that he has taken out the memory card from his digital camera without switching off it.

I take his memory card and plug it in the USB stick and try to open it through my computer I get a pop up box that says can not open drive file system corrupted. I told him that you can recover your entire videos and audios. Use the photo recovery software. I suggest him to take some precautions before using this software. Not to do any experiments with your memory card. If once the data is overwritten it becomes very difficult to recover it. Not to use your memory card until your data is not recovered.

You have to keep some necessary things in your mind to avoid corruption or loss of your data:

•Always make back up of your data by transferring your important audios, videos and photos in computer and backup them as CD or DVD.
•Avoid your media from water, humidity, and high temperatures. Always keep it in a safe bag which was generally given with media or you can buy some other.
•Do not rough use of your camera for example by mistake you have pulled the memory card without switching the camera off.
•Read the manual carefully before using your media.

If you keep these small but important things in your mind you will never face any problem. If unfortunately you have lost your photos, audios or videos use photo recovery software. My friend has recovered all his videos and audios with the help of Stellar Phoenix photo recovery software. This software is reliable and provides best recovery solution. It supports Windows and Mac both operating system. It recovers photos, audios and videos from hard drive, memory sticks, flash card, removable media and digital media.

If you want to check this software recovery capability download its free demo version from the site:

http://www.photo-recovery-software.com/download-photo-recovery-software.php

In the demo version the software scans your drive for lost or corrupted data. Once you see the recoverable file buy the software to complete your data recovery.

Tips for organizing your photos and way to recover it form accidental deletion

2008-06-17T12:49:00.002+05:30

When you are enjoying the moment you take lot of photos of that moment. Yet if you don’t take steps to organize your photo it will be difficult to find the specific photo you want later. It is easier to organize the photo at the moment as you capture your digital photos. Make categories of photos to organize your photo. Do it on your own way so that you can easily remember your naming conventions. There are some ideas may inspire you to choose a method that works naturally with the way you think

1. Organize by month and date:
This will help you determine the photos according to your categories like years, seasons, months or days.

2. Organized by Subject:
If you have taken most of photos on any special occasion you can arrange them according to particular occasion name like, brother_wedding, father’s_birthday, xyz_vacation and etc.

Combination approach with this method makes your task to find a particular photo very easy. Organize by subject and within subject folder use the date sorting. Sometimes it happens that you accidentally delete your photos. While taking photos you accidentally chosen “delete all”. It may also happen when you pull out memory card without switching off your camera. Always take precautions while handling your precious camera. No need to worry you can recover all you photos, audios and videos. You have to take some precautions like turn off your camera, pullout your memory card and take help of photo recovery methods. Do not experiment on your own since once the data is overwritten you will not able to recover.

The photo recovery software is capable of recovering lost or deleted photos from all the popular storage media like computer hard drive, memory cards, and digital cameras. This software employs extremely powerful scanning algorithms to search and locate the lost data and recover them. Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software is available for both Macintosh and Windows Operating systems. This software is very interactive and user friendly interface.

Recover Your corrupt Images

2008-06-12T16:20:00.001+05:30

Everybody wants to share and enjoy his previous good moments. So captures images and videos of that moment. It is the very valuable moments of life. You have gone for any tour, birthday party, marriage or any other. If your image is corrupted and displayed as broken or torn. You become mad you do not know what to do.

The cause of corruption is due the number of reasons like PC cannot keep up with the data rates going across the PCI or PCMCIA bus. This type situation occurs when PCI or memory bus gets saturated. It also occurs when PC not able to keep up with the interrupts being generated. PCI bus saturation occurs due to running of multiple cameras at high frame rates that push the bandwidth limits may be the large hard disk read/write or heavy network traffic.

Corrupt images may also due to hardware issue such as 1394 cables that are longer than IEEE-1394 specification of 4.5 meter. The problem may be due to the inadequate power supply to the camera or 1394 hub or repeater design issues.

These problems mainly depend on the system components and configuration, speed of IEEE-1394 hardware. You can avoid corruption of images by taking some precautionary measures:

While using a 64-bit 1394 PCI card, connect the card into a 64-bit 66MHz PCI. Due to this you will able to take full advantage of wider bus bandwidth, and helps to reduce the number of corrupt images occurrences.
Try to avoid motherboards that use integrated graphics controllers.
Ensure the host system has a fast CPU
Limit any heavy IO operations, that might occur while running the 1394 devices
Ensure adequate power is getting to the camera.
Try a different 1394 card that provides larger FIFO buffers.

If your image is corrupted you need not to worry. You can take help of photo recovery software. Photo recovery software can recover photos lost due to accidental deletion, storage media formatting or virus attack. This photo recovery software is capable of recovering lost digital photos from digital storage media, logical drives, computer hard drive and memory cards. It can recover pictures from all camera file types such as CR2, CRW, RAF, K25, DCR, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, SR2 etc. The recoverable audio formats are RPS, AU, OGG, WAV, MP3, AIFF, MIDI, M4A, M4P, WMA etc. The recoverable video formats are MOV, AVI, ASF, WMV, MP4 etc. This software supports both Macintosh and Windows photo recovery software to scan your hard drive or memory card right away.

Recovery From digital or removable media

2008-06-07T10:40:00.000+05:30

The technology is improving day by day. Everybody is moving towards digital world. Digital media is providing high quality images and videos. Now we are using memory card, digital camera, memory sticks, flash card and etc to store our valuable photos, audio and videos.

Although these devices are safe and secure but sometimes we lost our photos, audios or videos. The lost may be due to any reason like virus attack, accidentally deletion, corruption of photos.You have accidentally deleted data from removable disk like Memory Sticks, Compact flash card and Secure Digital, or SD cards. These may be very valuable for you since you have stored memorable photos and videos such as your wedding or graduation photos, travel snapshots, any good moment in your life and etc. So you do not want to lose them.

You can recover them with the help of photo recovery software. It is capable of r recovering lost or deleted photos from all the famous storage medias like computer hard drive, memory cards, and digital cameras. It is very easy to handle and user friendly interface. Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery software also supports audio and video file format. It supports most of the audio file format like RPS, AU, OGG, WAV, MP3, AIFF, MIDI, M4A, M4P, WMA etc. Video files of different file types like MOV, AVI, ASF, WMV, MP4 etc. are also recoverable. This photo recovery software supports both windows and mac operating system.

This software provides extremely powerful scanning algorithms to search and locate the lost data and recover them. You can download the free demo version from the site
http://www.photo-recovery-software.com/download-photo-recovery-software.php

The demo version scans your drive for lost file. Once you see the recoverable file you can download the full version for complete recovery of your data.

Recover your Photos through Photo Recovery Software

2008-06-05T18:01:00.000+05:30

Now day’s digital photos become more popular. Digital photography is a form of photography that utilizes the digital technology that makes the digital image of that subject. It has revolutionized the way we take and make pictures. It is efficient and more cost effective than old ways. The new technology introduces the new device for storing our pictures in digital camera, memory card and hard disk of your computer. Some moments of our lives are so precious that we want to preserve them for ever. A memorable picture of the past moments of life like of your childhood, wedding, tour, your parents, your ideal person and various others.

But sometimes when you lost your photos it become very traumatic and frustrating situation, especially when you know that you will not able to capture and picture them again. To be on the safer side to prevent your picture from loss just keep tips in your mind. These are as fallows:

Transfer your photos to computer and backup them as CD and DVD.
Never pulled out memory card without switching the camera off.
Never turned off the camera while writing process was on
Don’t exposed media to the very high temperature.
If your data is lost or corrupted stop using it.

We take precaution so that our photo is not lost but sometimes accidentally lost our precious image due to storage device has been corrupted or damaged. May be you have accidentally delete your data. In this type of situation you become tense and you do not know what to do. But you need not to worry you can recover all your photos through the photo recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix Photo recovery software is capable of recovering all your data lost or deleted photos from all the popular storage medias like computer hard drive, memory cards, and digital cameras. It works in all instance of photo loss and recovers files in original format. Photo Recovery software is available for both Macintosh and Windows Operating systems. It supports most of the camera file types such as CR2, CRW, RAF, K25, MRW, NEF, ORF, PEF, X3F, SR2, etc. Through the help of this software we can recover audio and video file format like RPS, AU, OGG, WAV, MP3, AIFF, MIDI, M4A, M4P, and WMA.