Secure Digital Card (SD card), is kind of memory card widely used in portable devices like digital camera, Camcorders, PDAs, Mobile phones, media players, etc. to store digital files. These non volatile SD cards are available with different size and storage capacities. Even though there are a number of Memory cards are available, they all function as a storage device to hold digital pictures, videos and audio files. Just like other flash memory cards, SD card uses the FAT or FAT32 file system, and the device can be connected to the computer easily using SD reader and can access the data.

The advantage of the digital camera over the old camera is that this digital device allows the user to capture photos and record events without difficulty and the user can view those pictures instantly. These days everybody is using the digital camera to capture photos and to shoot their family functions, special occasions, holiday trips and wonderful moments with their love one. The memory card inserted in the digital camera helps the user to take photos and shoot events easily. However, the photos on the digital camera get deleted easily than the old traditional camera, because of its advanced “delete” function. The user may delete one photo, or by mistake they may delete all the pictures stored on it.

The most usual mode of losing pictures from the digital camera is, accidentally deleting photos from the device, and errors while transferring the data to the computer. When you reset the digital device or format the memory card, the files stored on it can be lost or misplaced. While transferring the photos to the computer you may lose your data due to sudden shout down of the system or drive the SD reader abruptly. The deleted or lost photos from the memory card are not actually removed from the device; instead the space occupied by those files will be marked as available. If you try to use the device to capture more photos after losing the data, you lose your precious pictures permanently.

So if you act without delay after losing digital images you can get back your valuable data. Stop using the memory card further, as it can lead overwriting your lost data. Choose the correct photo recovery software to get back your precious pictures. Ensure that the selected software can read the corrupted SD card to recover deleted or lost pictures. Moreover, it is suggested you to take a proper backup of all your important data to avoid the limitation of the digital cameras.

Henry Michael is a wild life photographer who travels extensively across the countries. His own experience of loosing many of his prized photographs due to glitches in handling digital camera made him an expert in a photo recovery. To help fellow photographers he has published articles on how to recover deleted pictures memory card and photo recovery software.