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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
who have only one computer will need to acquire another drive and reinstall the operating
system before they can run any data recovery software. Fortunately, nine times out
of ten, the drive at fault will be a data drive, a DVD, or a storage card. To recover data
from these, you simply run the software. With most brands you can actually run the
free trial, wait to see if your images appear in thumbnail form, and then pay the license
fee and save them to another disk.
The Choice Is Yours
Searching on the Internet will reveal a bewildering number of data recovery programs,
many of them offering similar facilities—thumbnail display, selection, and save. Some
are biased towards saving RAW files, others can save over a hundred formats. Some are
dedicated to CompactFlash and other storage cards, others specialize in recovering data
from optical media. Trying to locate the right package for the job can be frustrating, so
I hope that the selections in this chapter will be really helpful to busy photographers.
All of these utilities come from reliable sources and have been tested by independent
reviewers.
CardRecovery
Vendor: WinRecovery Software
Purpose: Data recovery of images, video, and sound from most types of memory card
Description
CardRecovery recovers lost, deleted, corrupted, or formatted photographs and other
media files from most types of memory card, including SmartMedia, CompactFlash,
secure digital, memory stick, MicroDrive, xD picture card, multimedia card MMC,
MicroSD, and MiniSD. It finds the data on the card and then allows you to preview
the images in thumbnail before saving them to a specified destination. The whole
process takes around three minutes for a 1GB SD card over a USB 2.0 connection.
Comments
CardRecovery is safe to use because it performs read-only operations on memory cards.
It does not move, modify, or delete any data. It even retrieves Exif information along
with the images. If you accidentally reformat your memory card, remember: all is not
necessarily lost. There is a good chance CardRecovery can help. In fact, the vendor’s list
of testimonials from satisfied users is one of the longest you are likely to see.
Version: CardRecovery 4.1 (2008)
OS: 95, 98, 2000, NT, ME, XP, 2003, and Vista
RAM: 64MB