Recover Deleted Photos from PC, Camera or Memory Card

Have you accidentally deleted photo files?

Need to recover deleted photos from your PC or camera memory card?

We've all done it sometime. Deleted photos we didn't mean to as well as the ones we did...

or pressed the camera's delete picture button too many times, or moved a PC folder to the wrong place....

Result - lost or deleted photos!


And then you wonder if there's a way to recover deleted photos and get them back....

Good News - there is - and all is not lost!

Find out how to recover deleted photos more successfully here...

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The good news is that you can often successfully recover deleted photos from either a PC or camera memory card. Much depends on what has happened to the system or card since the photos were deleted.

We show you how to recover deleted photos with the greatest likelihood of success.

We also provide some vital photo recovery information to help you successfully recover your deleted photos. This is especially important if you are looking to recover deleted photos on a PC!

To start recovering deleted photos now
go straight to the section
How to Recover Photos

Or, to understand how to preserve your deleted photos and then
recover the images with most success
read on....

What Happens to Deleted Photos

When you delete photo files (or any files) on a PC or memory card, the data itself is not erased.

All that happens is that the entry in the disk or card's index of where the data for those files is located gets removed from the index. Effectively it doesn't know about the deleted photos any more.

Additionally, because it now doesn't know about them, the area of disk space where the data for those files is still stored (remember, the data did not get erased yet) is now marked as free space and so is available to the system for any new files to be written there instead.

If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover photos or any other deleted files involved.

So, to recover photos with the greatest chance of success,

don't panic

just don't do anything that might cause new files and data
to be written to the device that you deleted photos from,

and read on....

How to Recover Photos on a PC

If the deleted photos have been deleted from a PC hard drive, then you need to be extremely careful what you do next to recover them with the most chance of success. That computer must be used as little as possible to minimise disk activity.

If you are reading this page on the same computer on which you need to recover photos, do not turn the computer off, but also do nothing further on it. For example, do not use it to browse the internet as this causes lots of temporary files to be written to the disk.

The most significant rule is that any disk activity reduces the likelihood that you will be able to recover photos using any photo recovery software.

So, DO NOT open new applications or programs as this will also cause disk activity making it more difficult to recover deleted photos as a result.

Also DO NOT close any applications or programs as this may cause files to be updated and saved to the disk. Programs that are running and saving data to the disk should be stopped if possible, preferably still without actually closing them.

Do NOT shut down, close or reboot your PC. Firstly, you'll need the PC to be switched on to recover the deleted photos. Secondly the process of turning it off and then on again will likely cause applications or Windows itself to save data and create new files. This will potentially overwrite the deleted files data and make it impossible to recover photos successfully.

Find and use another computer instead
then revisit this site at
Recover Deleted Pictures,

then carry on reading about
how to recover photos
further below

Recovering Deleted Photos from a Camera, Cell Phone, Memory Card or USB Device

As well as PC and laptop disk drives, digital photos can be stored on other forms of electronic media such as memory cards, USB memory sticks, dedicated memory and micro drives.

Typically, digital cameras and many cell phones for example, store photos and image data on memory card devices such as SD, MiniSD, XD, CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Sony Memory Stick, and MMC memory cards. Some models also store some pictures on built-in dedicated memory.

Similarly USB memory sticks can be used as backup or transfer digital images from one device to another.

More information on recovering deleted photos
from these devices can be found by following the links below.

Recover deleted camera photos

Recover lost cell phone pictures

Recover deleted memory card photos

Recover deleted photos from a USB memory stick

How to Recover Photos

The simplest, quickest and easiest way to recover deleted photos from either a PC or camera memory card is to use a specialist photo recovery software package. There are a number of products available, of which only a few do a consistently good job of recovering deleted photos.

One of the best photo recovery software products is

Recover My Photos

The free trial version of Recover My Photos will scan and show you
exactly what deleted photos can be recovered

You actually see the files it finds displayed on screen,
so you can be totally confident
that it will recover photos that you want before buying it.


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Using Recover My Photos to Recover Deleted Photos
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To recover your deleted photos using Recover My Photos,
follow this

simple 4 step procedure

shown below to
maximise your chances of successfully recovering deleted photos:

1
To recover deleted photos download and install Recover My Photos onto your PC.

If the deleted photos you want to recover are on your PC, download the free trial version of the software to a different PC and copy it to a device such as a USB memory stick and run Recover my Photos from that.

2
If the deleted photos are on your camera or memory card, connect your camera to the PC or place your camera card (compact flash card, SD card etc) into a card reader connected to the PC.

3
Then run Recover My Photos and scan your camera, memory card or your PC hard drive.
You should now be able to view your deleted photos in the photo recovery preview window!

4
If you can see the deleted photos you want to recover,
you will then need to buy Recover My Photos (the full version) to complete the recovery.

Remember, if you can see the files, you can be totally confident
that it will recover photos that you want back.

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Please follow the above procedure as soon as possible for your best chance of
successful photo recovery as the more you use the device that your deleted pictures are on,
the more likely it is that they will get overwritten.

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