This article would be helpful for all of you, as some important tips are illustrated here so that you can use them in future in times of photo disaster or to perform photo recovery.

1.Make a habit of backing up your digital photos regularly
Accidents can happen any time on any device and are unforeseen. So always back up all your critical files and folders. To be on safer side, you can burn your photos onto a DVD, upload them to a hard drive, or upload them to an online storage service. In some cases, you can even upload your key pictures and files to other digital devices. This is supposed to be the best method for photo recovery.

2.After Data Loss, Immediately Stop Using Your Drive
Once corruption occurs in any storage media or there is a data loss, you must stop working on it as doing so may result in overwriting of data and hence chances of photo recovery are reduced to a large extent.

3.Don’t format or initialize your storage media
In case of an accident or data loss event, media devices ask you to reformat your device. You must definitely avoid it. Because you try to reformat there and then, you may actually write over some of the data that may be recoverable. Furthermore, reformatting may not solve the problem rather it will make the situation more complicated. Read the rest of this entry »