How to Recover Deleted Photos from Digital Camera (2024)
Here in this post, we'll show you how to recover deleted pictures from digital camera using the data recovery software - MyRecover or Windows File Recovery. Scroll down to explore more.
Can you retrieve deleted photos from a digital camera?
“I screwed up. I did a photo shoot and after I went through them and deleted a few by accident. the photos were gone. I didn’t format the card only deleted them. Can I see deleted photos on the camera? Where are my deleted photos on the camera? Can I retrieve the deleted photos from a digital camera and how? ”
The deleted pictures cannot be seen directly on camera after being deleted, but you still can recover deleted pictures from a digital camera. They are still somewhere on this card unless they are overwritten.
Here in this post, we'll introduce you to two popular data recovery software to help you.
Recovery Tool | Pros & Cons | Difficulty |
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MyRecover |
Pros: Easy to use; feature-riches; breathtaking recovery capacities; excellent compatibility; free for Windows PCs & servers; Cons: Not completely free |
⭐ |
Windows File Recovery |
Pros: 100% free Cons: command-line utility; success rate to be tested; only available on Windows 10 2004 version and later; it's obsolete; |
⭐⭐⭐ |
How to recover deleted photos from digital camera
Now, let's learn more about MyRecover and Windows File Recovery and the steps to recover deleted photos from digital camera.
Option 1: MyRecover
MyRecover is a free and powerful data recovery software that can recover deleted pictures from cameras, such as Canon, Nikon, Sony, Panasonic, Olympus, and more in a few clicks. Apart from that, you’re able to enjoy the following advantages:
- Top algorithm - thoroughly search disk for all recoverable data with Quick Scan and Deep Scan.
- Have fast scanning speed and high success rate.
- Retrieve 1000+ types of data, including documents (e.g. recover lost Word documents), pictures, videos, audios, emails, compressed files, etc.
- Search or filter files quickly through file name/extension, data type, etc.
- Preview files before recovery.
- Recover specific files or folders instead of all.
- Recover lost data due to accidental deletion, lost partition, virus attacks, system crashes, etc.
- Support NTFS, FAT32, exFAT, and ReFS file systems.
To get started, please download and install MyRecover on a working computer.
Step 1. Open MyRecover. Hover the mouse over your camera card. Then click Scan to let it be scanned.
Step 2. It will automatically search, analyze, and classify its data through Quick Scan and Deep Scan technologies. Usually, it's categorized into 3 types: Deleted files, Files in the Recycle Bin, and Other missing files. So you can easily find them in the original location.
Step 3. Check the scanning result from the Deleted Files/Recycle Bin/Other Missing Files folder. Or search or locate deleted photos quickly in the following items.
- Name/Extension: Type part or the entire filename of deleted photos or its extension in the search box.
- Data type: Select the "Images" data type in the filter feature.
- Date: Specify the date (today, yesterday, last 7/30 days, etc.)
- Size: Set file size (<128KB, 128 KB~1 MB, 1MB~512MB, etc.)
Step 4. Once found, double-click these photos to preview and select the desired photos. Click Recover xx files and choose a new location to save your recovered photos.
In addition, this software can not only recover deleted files from SD cards but also hard drives, SSDs, external disks, USB drives, etc., in the following situations:
- Recover files from formatted hard drive
- Recover files deleted by virus
- Recover files from lost partition
- Recover deleted files from Recycle Bin
- Recover permanently deleted files
- ......
Option 2: Windows File Recovery
Windows File Recovery, released by Microsoft, is a command-line tool to recover deleted pictures from the camera or other storage devices, such as hard drive, external disk, USB drive, etc., and more suitable for experts. It’s available to restore different types of files, including jpg/png/pdf/docx/xlsx/mov/zip, etc.
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The syntax: winfr source-drive: destination-drive: [/mode] [/switches]
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The source drive and the destination drive can be the same.
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You need to check the file system of the camera card, which helps in deciding the recovery mode.
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This tool only works with Windows 10 versions 2004 and newer.
If you still have problems, click the Windows File Recovery tutorial to learn more.
Step 1. Go to This PC > right-click on the camera card > click Properties to see its file system.
Step 2. Download and install Window File Recovery on your computer. Then, open it.
Step 3. Select a recovery mode - Regular mode or Extensive mode.
Step 4. Select one or more switches to filter the scanning range, thus saving time. If you don't get it clearly, type winfr /? to learn the meaning.
Step 5. Open Powershell or Command Prompt with the administrator. In the following window, enter commands to recover deleted photos from F: drive (the SD card) to D: drive:
winfr F: D: /regular /n *.jpg
Wrapping things up
MyRecover is easy to use, powerful, and reliable and can be your best choice to recover deleted pictures from camera whether it's a Canon camera, Sony camera, Panasonic camera, or other cameras. Why not give it a try?
The only drawback is it's not completely free. If you want a free software, Microsoft offers uses a command-line data recovery software named Windows File Recovery to help you.