Despite of using digital cameras widely for capturing photos and videos, most of us are still unaware of the fact that a deleted or lost photo can be recovered with the help of efficient third-party photo recovery software. After reading it many of you may ask that is it possible to recover photos which are lost due to formatting of the digital camera or camera card and how a photo which is deleted permanently from the memory card of digital camera be recovered? Well, recovery of deleted photo as well as photo which is lost due to formatting of the storage device is possible through an efficient photo recovery tool and the mechanism which these photo recovery tools use to recover permanently deleted photo is explained below.

Like any other operating system, the memory card of digital camera too maintains a pointer of every file saved on it. Whenever, a file is deleted from the memory card then initially the pointer associated to that file is deleted and the file remains at its space. Since, pointer is responsible for accessing the file thus that file becomes inaccessible for the operating system (OS) and the OS marks the space occupied by that file as free to use. These third-party photo recovery tools scan for all these marked free spaces available on memory card and extract deleted files from there. Therefore, in this way they recover deleted or lost files which we are unable to see or which are deleted permanently.

However, before performing photo recovery by third-party software if you start using the affected memory card for saving new files then there are high chances that a new file occupy this marked free space. Once a deleted file is overwritten or once this marked free space is overwritten then it becomes impossible even by most efficient photo recovery software to recover deleted or lost photos. Therefore, one precaution that you must follow in order to recover your lost or deleted photos successfully is to stop using the affected memory card immediately.

I found Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software quite handy and user friendly. The software has complete do-it yourself user interface that does not require technical knowledge to understand the working of the software. The software supports all kinds of memory cards and has separate versions for Mac and Windows users, so you can select the one according to the operating system used in your computer.