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A Quick Start Guide for Using Digital Photo Recovery Software

June 23, 2009

Digital Photo Recovery becomes essential once you have lost crucial image files.  many people assume that the area of digital photo recovery is limited to seaching for JPEG and GIF files. Years ago when digital cameras were not fully developed this was the case. The first digital camera by SONY saved files onto a 1.44 MEG floppy as JPEGS. Today the Floppy could scarcely hold a small high resolution image let alone a photgraph takem on a new Nikon. The newest digital cameras all save their photos in proprietary formats. If you have one of these cameras and need digital phot recovery you will top notch program capable of scanning for and locating camera RAW files.

Guide Overview

The purpose of this guide is to direct you how to recover your deleted photo, audio and video files from your hard drive by using Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery software if it becomes impassable.

Screenshots–More Detail

When you run Digital Media Recovery Software, a wizard screen will open and present you a list of drives, select the drive from which you need to recover data and press next button.

Wizard screen 1—Select the Drive

Digital Media Recovery Software Main Screen

Step 2—Select the File Type to Recover

The wizard screen gives you a choice to select the “File Types” that you are trying to recover. Select an individual file type; also you may select all files by pressing “Select All button” and press the “Next” button to continue.

Wizard Screen 2—Selecting the Specific File Type for Which You Wish to Scan

Select File Type to recover

Note: The number of file types selected will directly impact the speed of the scan.

Step 3—Run the Scan

When the “Next” button is pressed the scanning is commenced. Scanning might take several seconds to few hours. Estimated scan time depends on selected media (size, speed and physical condition of storage media. At any instance you can press “Stop” button to stop the scan.

Wizard Screen 3—Running Scan

Scanning process

Step 4— Result Screen

In the results screen, files found will be sorted by file type selections that you have made.

The result screen consists of “Root Directory” in the left panel, where you will find the scanned “file types.” You can select the specific “file type” folder to view total number of files present in it.

Wizard Screen 4—Results Screen

List of lost files found after scanning the Drive

Step 5—Previewing the File before Saving

You can double click on the found file to preview before recovering or, you may right click on the selected file and select “Preview” option from the menu.

Wizard Screen 5—Previewing the File

Preview option of recoverable file

Step 6—Save Recovered Files

Disk Doctors Data Recovery Software must be registered in order to save files.