Retrieval of photos from corrupted or damaged secondary storage devices is called Photo Recovery . Photo Recovery can be considered a subset of the overall Data Recovery field. Photo loss or deletion failures may be due to both hardware and software failures. Logical Damage or the inability to view photos can occur due to many reasons. The most common reasons are:
- Accidental deletion of photos – This occurs when the user accidentally deletes the photos, either by pressing the delete button, or the Shift + Delete button.
- Corruption of boot sector of media – This type of data loss occurs, when the boot sector of the media is corrupted.
- Move or Copy errors – These types of errors are one of the main reasons for loss of photos. This type of data loss usually occurs, when the photos are being transferred from the camera or the memory card to the PC.
In all the above cases, the loss of photos is due to a logical reason, and hence you can recover photos with ease, if you avoid making careless mistakes, and take some precautionary measures. You can use REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software, to recover photos in various well known formats like JPG, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP, and GIF. The software also lets you recover photos in RAW image formats.