How to recover lost photos?

General reasons for photo loss:

1. Your incorrect operation can cause photo loss. Digital cameras available on market commonly have options like "Format" and "Delete All". Sometimes you may mistakenly hit these buttons and need to recover lost photos from SD card. After transferring photos from camera to your computer, you still may accidentally delete or format these photos.

2. Camera SD card which stores photos is very small and likely to be dropped and damaged. In this situation, you may lose some of the photos.

3. Also, in computer, photos are easily lost due to virus attack, system crash and some other reasons. As long as it's not because of physical reasons, you can recover these lost photos.

Why can you recover lost photos?

When photos are lost due to a non-physical reason, it will no longer be listed on your PC hard drive or camera memory card, but in fact it is still there and can be recovered. It simply marks the space in which it is located as available for immediate use. So as long as the space hasn't been overwritten, you can recover lost photos. You can consider as a self-protection function of these devices.

A general guide about how to recover lost photos

Here's using Wondershare Photo Recovery. Free download and install here Photo Recovery

1. Have the drive on which you want to recover attached to a computer with an operating system or have the camera memory card plugged into your computer.

2. Download and install the free version of Wondershare Photo Recovery. Don't forget that you need to install it someplace other than the drive that you want to recover lost photos.

3. Start Wondershare Photo Recovery, select the disk you want to recover in left list and click "Next" to start the automatic scanning process.

4. Now you get a list of all recoverable photos. Select the photos you want to recover and click "Next".

5. Select a folder to store the recovered photos. Click "Next" and you will successfully recover these lost photos from SD card or your computer.