Data Recovery from Flash

Many owners of digital cameras probably accidentally delete the photos you want. But do not panic or get upset – they can be easily restored, especially after the removal of the flash drive does not write new photos …

The thing is that the Flash-cards are generally used ordinary computer file system is FAT16 and the file can be recovered in a standard way, you only need to find a utility that works with this type of media. And such a program – BadCopy Pro , supports all types of modern Flash-cards: CF / SD / SM / MS / MMC / XD (by the way, for some reason, the authors do not indicate support for xD-Card, but the programs, and works with them) .

So, first connect the flash drive to a card reader, or with the camera to the computer (if it has a standard emulation USB Drive). The “Explorer” map should be visible and accessible by any letter along with other external drives. Now run BadCopy Pro (if you run a program to connect a flash, it will not see this new one).

Choose the mode “Digital Media” and drive that is our Flash-card. Item “Search and Recover image and moves” is not important (later we will do more fine-tuning.) Click “Next”.

When you press the “Start” will be asked to refine your search deleted files. Meaning “Scan Range” reserve mode “Full Scan” (full scan), and pass the tab “File Type”.

Then identifies the types of files, which the utility will search for deleted data. For our flash does not make sense to look there any. Doc or. Xls, because switching the search mode on “Retrive Only Selected File Types” in the list is marked only the types of files that makes the camera and that we need to restore (usually JPG, TIF, MOV). Click “Ok” to start the search process, which can take more than an hour (depending on the size and speed of Flash-memory).

After the search, click “Next”.

Now you need to select the directory to save the recovered data (Select Destination Folder to Save the Recovered Files). Just here you can see the files (Preview Recovered Files), but can not be selected, as are all stored files.

Now you only need to find the right of your saved photos.

We reviewed the situation recover accidentally deleted files . But there are times when the flash drive from old age was partially illegible – the file is visible, but when you try to copy an error. With this, too, could be addressed with BadCopy Pro. To do this, select the mode “ZIP / MO / USB-Disk” and “Recovery Mode: Rescue Corrupted Files”.

Further note unreadable files, choose the mode “Recovery Option: Max Data” and repeatedly press “Next”. However, there is a high probability that corrupted files can not be restored without damage, chances are you will still have to process them in an image editor, or do not get used. In video, in such cases, and more likely to be limited to the loss of information to a few “beaten” shots that can be cut in the video editor.