Photo recovery software

[lindylou16]

Hi Which is the best FREE photo recovery software about for Windows

[Wak]

what do you mean by RECOVERY?
Have you deleted some photo files and want to recover them???

[lindylou16]

Exactly right

[dabees]

I've used Recuva to get some deleted files, it's not perfect but it's free.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_recuva/

[ChuckFickens]

The best free recovery software is to restore them from your backups!

No backups? I guess.

this should work for photos

http://download.cnet.com/Pandora-Recovery/3000 -2094_4-10694796.html?tag=mncol

[Wak]

In the past I have also used:-
CampiRestor.zip
FastFileUndel
Restoration 2514.

You can google for them and try them all.
It would be best to download them on another computer and then put them on a floppy disc ( or CD) so that you do not use any of your hard drive and write over the files you are trying to restore/save.

[fo3nix]

Try this:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

[_Sara_]

The Hetman Photo Recovery recovers the JPEG, JPG, BMP, RIFF, TIFF, PNG files, and also recovers video and audio of the MPEG, AVI, MOV, WAV formats. The tool provides restoration of data from different storage devices, such as the flash-memory, the memory stick of the multimedia, MMC, miniSD and other devices. Provides support to different versions of the Windows operating systems, such as Windows XP, 98, 2000, 2003, NT, ME. This utility returns the damaged data from different digital devices, like Yashica, Kingston, Kodak, Sony, Fuji Film, Espon, Jenoptik, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Samsung, Acer, Konica, Hitachi, Everex, Compaq, Kinon, Nikon, Data Pack Delkin, Ericsson, Strata Flash, Argus and Delkin. This program provides the friendly graphic user interface therefore with it it is very convenient to work. The software recovers data from different cameras: Point and Shoot camera, Specialty camera, Novelty camera, Prosumer and digital video camera.
Features:
- Provides DSLR support (digital one-lens reflection) cameras.
- The software is available only for reading.
- Returns data even if the storage device was formatted.
- Finds hidden videos, audio, images, pictures, files of photos, such as MPEG, a MP3, WAV, MOV, MIDI, JPG, JPEG, GIF, RIFF, DV, TIFF and ASF.
- Finds format dead files *.RAW.
- Provides restoration of data on Windows XP, NT, ME, 2000, 2003, 98.
- Returns all types of digital cameras, such as Prosumer, Digital video camera, Point and shoot camera, DSLR.
- Recovers storage devices, like MMC, Microdrive, FP memory, microSD, miniSD and Smart media.
- The software views the digital storage device and takes less time for restoration of data.
Full list of capabilities here: http://hetmanrecovery.com/
- Gives support to different brands of digital cameras, such as Kinon, Hitachi, Argus, Ericsson, Delkin, Acer, Everex, Sony, Fuji Film, Compaq, Yashica, Mitsubishi, Strata Flash and Panasonic.

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