Can formatted photos be successfully recovered?

                                                                                         

Most of us are quite attached to the photographs that trace our childhood years, college days, married life and days to come but taking care of the photos so that they can enable us to replenish our memories for long even when the moments captured are gone is a quality few of us possess. We call them our prized possessions but when it comes to care we seldom do the needful. We duly bear the brunt of this and our nonchalance and negligence spells disasters when they are permanently lost or mutilated.

If you have attempted an accidental or intentional formatting of the media where your precious photos were stored, you are as good as dead cause any ordinary person with common sense would ascertain that recovering the photos would now be an impossible prospect but thanks to modern day technology that has put most of our fears to rest.

Retrieving photos from formatted media has now been rendered possible and feasible and it is the multitude of data recovery companies who are to be congratulated for achieving this feat. Contrary to ordinary belief formatting does not permanently erase all the data contained in the disk but it merely erases the data entry or the records of the previous file systems and renders the original files and directories inaccessible.

The appearance of the blank disc and the time taken by Windows to format the disk often leads us to misjudge the situation as we presume the time taken to be the time that is required to wipe away the entire contents from the hard drive but in reality Windows takes a stipulated time to check the disk for errors in order to ensure that every sector on the disk can read and write correctly and simultaneously marks the bad ones in the file system. It is only after executing this task that it starts with the creation of a new, empty file system record.

If you have lost your photos through accidental or intentional formatting, its best to refrain from tempering with the media cause we are not adept or trained enough to handle troubleshooting mechanisms that might yield beneficial results. Digital cameras are specialized devices whose components are fragile and compressed so as to accommodate all the important features that are essential for delivering quality image output. It is definitely not the preserve of a layman to set the alignments right if any damage has occurred.

If in the course of tempering, the photos get overwritten by any means, it would invalidate all chances of recovery even after employing a reliable photo recovery software or divesting the task to data recovery professionals. The data that we assume is lost is basically stored in the form of clusters in the hard drive which can easily be retrieved by employing data recovery software if it remains in its pristine state.

If you are suffering from a similar setback and lamenting the loss of your precious photos, you have help at hand. Stellar Information Systems Ltd, a pioneer data recovery company specializing in data recovery and data protection services and software has devised an effective photo recovery software by the name Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an exceptional utility, which recovers all your lost or deleted pictures after almost all data loss scenarios. This Photo Recovery tool is the comprehensive solution for all digital memory cards, digital cameras and hard drives. Compatible with wide array of audio and video file formats, this recovery tool is available for both Windows (Windows7 RCI, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 ) and Macintosh ( Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger and 10.3.9 Panther).

About the author:
Andrew Watson has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology researching with Stellar Info. System Ltd which offers photo recovery, digital photo recovery, photo recovery software and mac photo recovery.

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