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Compact Flash CF Card Deleted Photo Video Recovery

Are you used to store the important photos and videos on compact flash card? What would you do after the useful files on the CF card being deleted by some reasons but there is no backup? Do you want to get back the lost photos and videos from the compact flash card? You can read this article if you are busy with finding a way out to retrieve the lost files such as pictures and videos from CF card. You will get that data recovery software could help you.

Example of deleting photos and videos off compact flash card

I need your guys help emergently. Is there any way can I get back my lost photos and videos saved on the compact flash card? I deleted them by mistake yesterday evening when I view them one by one. It cost me much time and energy to take those pictures and videos files. They mean a lot to me, to be honest. I tried myself to restore them but filed through all kind ways I can think. But I believe that there must be other way to retrieve my losses successfully. –Swift from New York

How to restore files from the compact flash card after deleting with data recovery software

It is not a big problem that deletes pictures and videos off the compact flash card, because we can get them back if we have no backup. What's more, the way to data recovery is not that complicated. On the contrary, it is simple enough for us to perform. Here are its steps as follows:

Recover data from CF card

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the CF card to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.

1Download the data recovery software and install it on the computer.
2Plug the compact flash card into the computer by connecting it to a card reader first.
3Operate the data retrieval tool and choose the recovery model. Then select the aim disk to scan.
4Preview the recoverable files after the scan. Choose the needed to recover according to the previewing.

Different data loss cases happen to compact flash card

There may more than one data loss situations such as deletion happen to you if you are a compact flash card user for a long time. Deletion is just one of them among so many cases that bring about data loss when we use the compact flash card. Here are some common information loss scenarios as follows on compact flash card:

1. Accidental or intentional deletion. It can be recognized as the most common data loss situations. There are many ways to delete files useless, such as delete them by mouse click, delete them by click on the keyboard button, delete them by shift and delete, and so forth.

2. The compact flash card is formatted by mistake or on purpose. If you want to restore information from the formatted CF card, you should take notice of that do not format the compact flash card one more time.

3. Power failure. It happens when your computer closed abruptly when the compact flash card are still insert it and on the process of read or write. You may find there is nothing or just some of your data saved on the CF card when you reboot your computer.

4. System error. Such data loss problem occurs when the compact flash card or files saved on it can not be detected by the operating system when they are connected. But you may view them on other digital devices, and maybe not.

Features of data recovery software

You can ask the data recovery software for help when you are going through compact flash card data loss trouble and trying to find a way which is effective to get back those losses. It could give you help needed. Here are the main features as follows of data recovery software:

1. It can retrieve lost data from the compact flash card, as well as other storage devices and digital devices. Such as external hard disk, computer hard disk, SD cards, Thumb drive, or other memory card, etc.

2. It can restore photos, videos and other files types saved on the compact flash card. Data recovery tool can get back almost all types of documents saved on the compact flash card after them being deleted. Audio files, music, for instance.

3. It can recover lost information from manufactures of compact flash card like SanDisk, Transcend, Kingston, and so on.

4. It can reclaim files from all kind of logical data corruption situations. Data may be lost due to formatting, deletng, virus attacks, power failure, RAW file system and other various reasons, all the losses could be got back as long as they are not overwritten by new information.

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