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How to Recover Photos from CF Card with CF Card Recovery

Aug. 14, 2013 05:06 am / Updated by Bobby Hills to Card Tips
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CF card gives us convenience in digital life. Owing to incorrect operations, we may delete photos on CF card or format CF card. If that happens, how to recover CF card file becomes the urgent issue. The article below states several typical reasons about lost pictures on CF card as well as tips on how to recover lost images with Card Data Recovery for Windows program. If you are running Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9, 10.8, 10.7 and previous visions, try Card Data Recovery for Mac. Besides retrieve photos and videos, Card Data Recovery also can recover music, files, etc. Popular video and photos formats like MOV, FLV, AVI, WAV, MP4, MPEG, JPG, PNG, TIFF, etc. are supported. Both of them support the most popular and trusted brands for CF Cards including Kingston, Ritek Ridata, SanDisk, Transcend, Apacer, Viking, and Lexar.

Reasons of lost photos on CF card

Lost photos in CF cards can be caused by many reasons: card damage, failure, corrupt, etc. and the following are some typical phenomena.

• 1. Accidently selected "Format" on your digital camera and erased all the pictures on the CF card.
• 2. Turn off the camera before the image is completely written to the CF Card
• 3. Receive an error message like “card not formatted”, “card not found” or “no images found”
• 4. Keep take photographs when the camera battery is at the end of its life.
• 5. When upload images to computer, mistakenly judge the finish of uploading and eject the CF card ahead of time.

How to Recover photos, videos from CF card with CF Card Recovery in Windows?

Before CF recovery, you should know that your photos are not erased actually. It stored on CF card as a file. When you format the card or deleted photos from the card, the data on which the images were stored is not deleted. It only allows new pictures to take its place. Therefore, make sure not taking new photographs any more in case that the previous photos would be overwritten.

CF card data recovery program like Card Data Recovery can help you recover pictures from CF Card easily. Below is the steps of how to recover files from CF card on Windows. Refer this guide to recover data on CF card on Mac.

Download, install and launch Card Data Recovery. Click "Start" on the home interface.

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Take out the CF card from digital camera and connect it to your laptop or connect digital camera to PC directly. (If your desktop or laptop has a built-in card reader, things will be much easier, if not, you need a card reader to help you.)

Select your CF card as the target device. And choose a recovery mode: Standard Mode and Advanced Mode. For the former, continue to select your file types; for the latter, select your file formats. And then click "Scan".

The process is quick and all recoverable photos and videos will be listed. Preview the photos before recovery and select what you wanted. Click "Recover".

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