Compact Flash (CF) memory cards are portable, very small removable storage devices which are used to store large amount of data. There are two types of CF memory cards i.e. Type I and Type II. Difference between these two memory cards is only the thickness. CF cards are less prone to mechanical failures because, CF cards do not contain any moving parts and provide high protection of data compared to magnetic hard disk drives. CF cards uses only 5% of the power needed by small drives. CF cards use flash memory, which is used for fast and easy data storage. Initially flash memory cards were using flash file system and JFFS (Journaling Flash File System) but now, to use these memory cards in consumer devices it is usually formatted to FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file system. CF cards are used in PDA’s, digital cameras, MP3 players and other electronic devices. Even though these CF cards are having high protection of their data, there are chances of logical failures which may result in data loss. You can use Compact Flash card recovery software to recover your lost data.
CF cards are supported by most of the digital cameras. In some cases, you may accidentally delete your photos while previewing which may result in loss of photos. No need to worry, because there are many third party recovery software are available to recover deleted photos. Sometimes, while transferring photos from your CF memory card to computer if you removed memory card while transfer process was still running, it may lead to data loss. If you try to transfer those files again by connecting CF memory card to computer, it leads to CF memory card corruption which may unable you to access data.
The general solution to recover corrupted card is formatting the card. But, this is not the good solution. If you format your CF memory card, first it will erase your complete data then create new file system which results in data loss. If you have backup of your data then formatting a CF memory card is not a problem. After formatting you can easily restore your data from backup file. But, If you don’t have backup file then no need to worry because, you can choose third party recovery software which are not writable so that you cannot lose data while recovering process also.
Remo Recover (Windows)-Media edition, helps you to recover deleted or lost photos even from corrupted CF memory cards. This software is capable to recover photos from all major brands of digital cameras like Canon, Olympus, Fujifilm, Sony, Casio, Nikon etc in major storage capacities. This software sorts your recovered data based on their file type, name, size and extension so that you can easily retrieve files. This software also helps you to save your disk space by compressing in Zip archives. After recovery process, to save recovered photos, this software will ask you to select storage location or destination location. Make sure that your selecting healthy drive on computer to avoid overwriting the recovered data on the memory card.
You can download the free to try demo version of the software to check it’s working.