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How to Recover Lost Photo Images

Recovering lost photos from your digital camera or memory card is achieved by using one of the many different recovery programs that are available on the Internet. Some of these programs are free to use or may have free trial periods. Other programs are purchase only. Once downloaded to your computer, the process is very similar from program to program. Lost digital pictures, even those on drives that have been formatted will still exist on the memory card or camera disk until the space they occupy is used to save another photo.

Things You'll Need

USB cable

Instructions

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  Turn your computer on, connect to the Internet and download the program you want to use to recover the lost digital photos. Once the program has been downloaded to your computer, install and launch the program.
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  Connect your digital camera to your computer using a USB cable or insert the memory card into a card reader. Wait a moment for your computer to recognize the camera or card reader.
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  Click "File" and select "Scan" or "Start" from the drop-down menu in the recovery program you selected to use. Click the icon that identifies the camera or memory card connected to your camera and click "OK" to start the scan.
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  Click the picture you want to recover from the new window that will be created when the recovery program finishes its scan. From here, you can save the lost photo to your computer's hard drive, an external drive or to a CD if you have loaded one into your computers burner drive.

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