Recover a Camera Chip
According to a study conducted by Photography.com, 82 percent of camera consumers own and use a digital camera. Digital cameras capture images electronically, allowing them to be edited on a computer. Users commonly store photos directly from the digital camera onto memory cards, or camera chips. You can lose the images on your memory card by dropping it, touching the "contacts" -- the metal on the end -- or overwriting data. To begin recovering the data, put your camera chip into a card reader and insert it into your computer.
Instructions
1. Download and install PC Inspector Smart Recovery, a freeware program compatible with Windows 9x, ME, NT 4.0, XP and Windows 2000.
PC Inspector supports most photo and video file formats including JPG, TIF, BMP, AMR, GIF, MP4, 3GP and MOV.
2. Download and install Recuva, a file recovery software that runs on Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP and 2000. You have the option of donating $34.95 to the host site or downloading via a third-party site for free.
Recuva supports all common file formats as well as Nikon and Canon RAW files.
3. Download and install Photo Recovery for Digital Media, a Mac Shareware program that requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later to run.
It recovers all common file formats from iPods, memory sticks, SD cards, SmartMedia, CompactFlash I & II, MMC, Micro Drives, xD-Picture Cards, PCMCIA, USB flash drive, VCD and DVD
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