Picture Recovery Software

A virus infection in a computer is a nightmare for anyone—losing all the data, formatting the system, etc. It is worse for designers and photographers who store their precious pictures on the computer system. A virus can destroy or damage all their important files and data. If the virus itself does not destroy or delete the file, sometimes the steps to remove the virus may do so. The loss can be compensated if you have a healthy backup of all your precious pictures. Whatever be the reason for the loss, if your pictures are deleted or misplaced, you can always use a picture recovery software. These software are a ‘life-saver’ for those who do not keep a back-up of the files.

Most viruses find their way into our computer systems through the E-mail attachments that we open. Many viruses attach themselves to image and video files that we download from the Internet. A common example of this is when you suddenly realize that the pictures on your computer are either deleted or damaged after you have downloaded some new files from the Internet. This happens due to a virus infection.

How does a computer virus affect pictures on the system?

A virus is a program that runs on the computer just like any other application on your system.

1.Some viruses are designed in such a way that they damage and alter some, if not all the pictures on the computer system.

2.Still others simply delete the photos from the computer system.

3.Some viruses corrupt the file system of the computer which leads to inaccessibility of the pictures stored thereon.

How can one salvage pictures after a virus infection?

The first thing to do is use an updated anti-virus to remove the virus from the system. Once you have successfully deleted the virus from the system, take a back-up of all the important files from your system, unless the files were deleted by the virus.

After removing the virus, format the drive in which the virus infection occurred. Formatting a drive deletes all the data from within, thus you will need to use a picture recovery to recover deleted pictures. Such tools are specifically designed using technology competent enough to scan the hard drive for deleted multimedia files.

Digital picture recovery software can recover deleted pictures without damaging or altering them in any way. The software has the capability of recovering almost every type of popular multimedia files since it supports JPEG, RAW, TIFF, GIF, and other multimedia file formats. It has an easy-to-use interface which enables even people without any technical knowledge to recover files.

A USB Flash Drive or USB Drive is a flash memory data storage device combined with a USB interface. They have, in a way, replaced the floppy diskette. Their storage capacity is very high with some drives going up to 256 GB storage. However, USB flash drive being a technical device is prone get affected from virus. The file system of the USB flash drive becomes corrupt after a fatal virus attack, which further results in inaccessibility of its stored data. This is the reason why it is always advised to maintain two copies of all photos, audio files and video clips on two different storage media.. However, if you don’t have a back-up of the lost data, then you will need to use a picture recovery software to recover your lost files.

Imagine the excitement of a budding fashion designer, who has designed a new collection. He stores the pictures of the collection on his USB Flash drive and goes out of town to show-off his new collection. He connects his USB drive to a computer to rehearse the presentation, but gets an error message saying that his pictures are inaccessible.

What could have gone wrong?

It’s hard to imagine something like that happening to anyone. The cause of the problem is ignorance towards computer viruses. Most people are quite careless when it comes to checking a computer for viruses.

In this case also, the USB drive is connected to a system that is virus infected. The virus in the computer damages the files system of the USB Flash Drive, which further renders in inaccessibility of data.

What to do next?

The first thing to do is run a virus scan to check and remove the virus. Ensure that the anti-virus being used is up-to-date and from a trusted company. The next thing after any virus infection, is to format the USB Flash Drive. This is an additional step done to double check the virus removal. Formatting a device erases all the information from it. This includes your picture and other multimedia files.

After formatting the drive, use a picture recovery software to retrieve your formatted photos, videos and other files. Ensure to use a trusted tool that is known to perform safe and efficient picture recovery. These applications are specially designed to recoup audio-visual data from various storage devices, even after they have been formatted.

Whom to trust?

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is one of the most trusted software in this field. It is a picture recovery software that can recover lost, missing, deleted, or formatted data from all types of storage devices. It is a read only software, which does not modify or overwrite the original contents of USB Flash Drive and other storage media. The software supports Mac and Windows OS.

One can hope for recovery of the data by relying on a data backup process. There are, however, instances when a simple built-in facility of data backup cannot help. In this case, you need to use some powerful picture recovery software

Suppose, while you are viewing some photos on your camera, you accidentally pressed the format button. Or you have accidentally stumbled on your USB plugging it off your PC, or switched off your camera while data read/write or transfer process is in progress. Or you have simply deleted your photos from the device by mistake. All these mistakes lead to the loss of your important data, be it photos, audios or videos, after which you cannot view those ill-fated files. Even your attempt to access your card will repeatedly prompt some error message like ‘Card not formatted’, ‘Card does not contain data’, Card not initialized’, etc. on your monitor.

Luckily, there are two options available in regard to memory card recovery needs. If you simply deleted your photos or deleted the memory card, run a data backup process. It may recover them.

However, if your pictures got lost due to the other errors or mishandling activities mentioned above, you need to reformat your card to make it usable again because these errors or mishandling actions have cause logical damage to your device making it unusable. Reformatting will delete all data already saved in the card, but it is necessary.

After your card is thus all right, run data backup process. It may recover the data. If this facility is not available or if it cannot serve the purpose, you need to rely on the other and last option: Use some powerful Digital picture recovery software. Programs to ensure lost photo recovery employ highly advanced methods and algorithms to cater to complex digital multimedia data recovery needs of the time.

Thus, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 comprehensively recovers lost pictures of various formats from almost all storage media. Compatible with Windows and Apple Mac operating systems, this picture recovery application saves the recovered data in a user-specified location without modifying or overwriting the original files.

The new Sony DSLR—A850, a full-on digital SLR, is a wonder of its own. Being very similar to the Sony DSLR—A900, but still being cheaper, this is the newest addition to most camera lovers wishlist!! The camera uses a CF (Compact Flash) and Memory Stick Pro Duo Card slots. Users have the freedom to experiment with all the various settings, adjust light, aperture, focus, shutter speed, etc.

Just imagine, you’ve just bought your new A850, you go ‘click-crazy’ suddenly one of your friends, jokingly snatched your camera, and pulls out the memory card. Later you turn on the camera and find that all the pictures you took are gone!!! The first shots on your new camera. All gone and you don’t even know how it happened!!!

The reason is simple—when a memory card is pulled out before it is completely written to, it causes incomplete writing of data and makes the pictures inaccessible. Sometimes the card may also get corrupt and causes all the pictures on it to get deleted.

This is a situation almost every digi-cam user faces. The solution is very simple. Instead of getting disheartened and upset, you should use a Picture recovery software. These are softwares that have been specially developed to scan the hard disk and Recover deleted pictures. You need to download it from the internet and install it on your system, then attach your memory card to the computer using the card reader. The software the allows you to search for all the missing/deleted photos and restore either all or just the ones you want.

The principal on which such recovery softwares work is very simple: when we erase anything from our computer/memory cards etc, they only get marked as deleted. The information still remains in the file systems on our computer. The softwares access this information and recover the lost data.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is one such simple, easy-to-use software. Phoenix Photo Recovery has the capability to recover pictures from any kind memory card—CF cards, SD cards, Memory sticks etc. It also supports all kinds of file types (WAV, MP3, JPEG, TIFF, etc.) enabling you to successfully salvage all deleted pictures, videos, etc.

GIMP is a graphics editing software. Although not a very popular one, the GIMP was designed by GNU as an image editing and retouching software. With GIMP one can perform image workflow steps such as editing, cropping photos, combining multiple pictures, converting between various image formats, etc. One can also use it to create basic animated images in GIF format.

While editing pictures on our system, the computer uses a virtual memory to store the changes you make. When this gets full one often finds that the system hangs or slows down. Eventually your program will shut down and your computer may get locked up for some time. This would not have any dire consequence otherwise, except that some of your precious pictures would get deleted of the system (although it is generally on the changes which are not saved.). Such times would be ideal for you to turn to third party Picture recovery software.

Imagine if while editing your kids birthday pictures, your computer suddenly hangs, you wait for a while and once it starts working properly again, you realize that the program has closed. You get worried that your editing was not saved, and get ready to go through the whole process all over again. But to your complete confusion and dismay, the picture is gone.

Reason:

You may have noticed that sometimes the system unfreezes and the program continues to run like it did before. While at other times the program closes when the system unhangs.

In layman’s words, this is because the computer gets confused as to what to save and what not to save, the system then shuts the program to free up memory. This is when the program closes. When the computer isn’t confused, the program continues.

While most times the unsaved changes get deleted, sometimes the picture gets deleted because of the same confusion. The system does not understand whether or not to save that particular picture since it was being edited. So it just deletes it.

Solution:

The solution to the problem of freezing is to change the Tile Cache Size in the Preferences. This should be about 256MB. Sometimes by default or accidentally it gets set to the total RAM in you system. If this happens you are bound to face problems while using the software. It means that your entire RAM is being used by 1 program, which is not possible.

Since the freeze also caused your pictures to get corrupted, you should use a Picture recovery software and Recover deleted pictures. The software simply scans the system and recovers all the pictures stored in them—whether deleted or not.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software is an example of such softwares. You can first download the trial version, use it to check which pictures are recoverable and then buy the full version to actually recover them. It has been developed by Stellar Information Systems Ltd. Since it supports a variety of file types and formats—GIF, JPEG, TIFF, WAV, AVI, etc., it can Recover deleted photos, audio and video files etc.

You have just taken snaps of your toddler and gone for a cup of coffee leaving the camera on a table to do the write process. You come back and discover that your camera is lying on the floor and the card has been pulled out. You are made to believe by your friend’s teenager son that your son was meddling with it and he has accidentally pulled out the card when the write process was on. You are disheartened and heart broken cause you don’t know what to presume. To your dismay, you discover that all your precious photos have been deleted and you are left with no other option but to repent for this loss.

Applying any of the procedures for recovering the photos would be useless as you are unaware of the cause that inflicted such a big loss. To top it off your friend in an attempt to fix it discovers that the card already had scratches on it. You are caught between options whether your friend’s son might have accidentally formatted it or was it the scratches on the card. In the flux, the card was pulled out without switching the camera off.

This is a real critical situation that demands professional intervention. If you are wise enough refrain from and stop others from meddling with the camera cause any harm done to the hard drive will delete the photos from it forever. If you are praying to God for a solution whereby you can get back all your precious photos, you do not have to wait for a miracle; you have Stellar Information Systems Ltd, to help you through this difficulty.

This situation is very common and innumerable cases are reported to Stellar that deal with the same complication. Stellar in keeping with these and similar challenges that plague the pic lovers has devised a powerful software to undelete and recover photos that have undergone deletion.

Stellar has emerged as a specialist in photo recovery and thus they have widened their horizon to integrate Mac operating Systems in their fold. Stellar’s flagship product Digital Picture Recovery Software helps in recovering and restoring lost, deleted and formatted digital pictures / images that might have suffered reverses following an accidental deletion, media formatting or cases where the media has turned corrupt.

Stellar Phoenix Digital Photo Recovery Software 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)

Stellar Information Systems Limited,07 Oct 09 Gurgaon, the leading providers of advanced data recovery solutions, announces the latest release of its Windows and Mac photo recovery software- Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2. The new updated version introduces a new and bettered user interface that is more easy and efficient to use. The update includes added preview and recovery support for several new image and video file formats. The free demo version of the software is available for download on Stellar’s website.

“Digital photo loss is common among amateur and professional photographers. Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 will prove to be a time-saving and easy-to-implement solution for them.” said Sunil Chandna, Stellar Information Systems CEO. “The advanced version allows recovering lost photos within few mouse clicks. The software now provides highly customizable interface with support for widely-used digital file formats . ”

Updated features of Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2:

Improved user-interface
Easy-to-use options
Supports new image formats including DNG, SONY ARW, Kodak Intel, RAF Intel and EPSON ERF
Supports more video formats including M4V, 3GP and MPEG

Pricing
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 single-user download edition (Windows and Mac versions) is available at affordable price of $39.

About Stellar Information Systems :
Stellar Information Systems Limited is an experienced and technologically advanced provider of industry’s best data recovery and data protection solutions. It is an ISO 9001-2000 certified company with global clientele across more than 137 countries and holds direct presence in USA, Europe and Asia.

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