How to Recover Lost Photos from Hard Drive?

Digital cameras are used across the globe to capture memories in the form of image file. Pictures can be stored in hard drive as well as other storage devices like memory card, external hard disk, flash memory card; Fire Wire drives as a back up. But hard drive like any other storage devices is prone to corruption. If you hear a clicking sound and it is taking time to boot then you can be sure that hard drive will crash soon. The worst part is that you may lead to loss of important files along with the image file. Sometimes when your hard drive is corrupted your PC may freeze for a time and do not allow you to access files or you may come across CRC error. You will really feel frustrated if you lose your precious photos stored in the hard drive. When hard disk gets corrupted it may lead you to lose your pictures. If this happens with you, don’t panic!!! With the advancement of technology today, you can know how to recover lost photo from hard drive and also other types of files from it by using a recovery utility. There are many recovery programs found in internet, you can download the tool that offers good features for recovering lost photos from hard drive. You have to check them carefully and decide which can be more efficient and then use to restore lost photos from hard drive.

You may lose image file if you terminate system suddenly while transferring files from hard drive to external USB drive by using “Cut + Paste” option. This happens because when you use this command, the files are moved from the source location and get ready to store in destined location. So if you unintentionally turn off your computer before completion of the transfer process then you will not be able to find the picture both on your hard drive and external storage device result in loss of data. Software malfunction that deals with setting of the system can also lead to data loss from hard drive. External threats like viruses, malware, spyware, adware infect the hard drive and corrupt the system and make it inaccessible. File system conversion from FAT to NTFS or vice versa may also damage hard drive and result in loss of data. Bad sectors in disk also make data in the drive unreadable and inaccessible of image file along with other files.

In order to avoid this critical situation it is suggested to maintain a proper back up of your files. Once you get to know about data loss you should immediately stop using the hard disk and do not save any new pictures or any other files on it. When a file is deleted it is just marked as deleted and that space is assigned to be free, but actual information remains intact until overwritten with new file. If you do not have back up then no need to worry as you can retrieve lost photos from hard drive by using this recovery software.

Recover Seagate software is an eminent hard disk recovery software which is designed to recover lost photos from hard drive and also other files from SATA, SCSI and IDE drives. High professionals and experts have recommended this recovery software to perform lost photo recovery from hard drive. This incredible utility also recover lost photos from hard drive having file system FAT16, FAT 32, NTFS, NTFS5.  You can also recover image file of different file format JPEG, GIFF, TIFF, RAW, etc. This tool is highly relaible and most advanced one compared to other available tools for recovering lost photos from hard drive. You can know more info about recovery of files from external hard drive by visiting to external drive recovery related page. This software can also perform Seagate Momentus data recovery along with lost photo recovery from hard drive on both Windows and Mac operating system. It also supports different models of Seagate including Momentus.

Follow these simple steps to recover lost photos from hard drive:

Step (i): Install the free version of the hard drive recovery software and then launch it. Then main screen opens up and you have to select "Recover Photos" optionas as shown in Figure A for recovering lost photos from hard drive.

Figure A: Main Window

Step (ii): After that you have to select "Recover Lost Photos" and then click "Next" option to proceed to next step to recover lost photos from hard drive.

Figure B: Select Recover Lost Photos

Step (iii): Select the disk from which you have lost photos, and then click on "Next" to start the scanning program.

Figure C: Select Hard Drive

Step (iv): After lost photo recovery from hard drive, software displays a list of retrieved files which you can "Preview" in "Data View" or "File Type View".

Figure D: Recovered Files