How to Get Back RAW Images from SD Card?

RAW Picture Recovery from SD Card

Secure digital card is a small flash memory card widely used by digital cameras. The data transfer rate of this SD card is high and it has low battery consumption. The types of SD cards are SDXC, miniSD, SDHC, microSD.The various brands of SD card are SanDisk, Toshiba, Panasonic, etc. SD card is compact and slim that stores huge amount of data. They are used to store photos, videos, audios, graphics, documents etc. SD card can save pictures in all formats JPEG, TIF, TIFF, BMP, GIF, RAW and JPG. The raw file format gives more clarity for the photos, and you can further edit the RAW images. These raw files occupy more space for storing the picture.

Suppose you went to vacation at Sikkimand did a photo shoot of beautiful places. Your camera stored those pictures inraw format. You took about 500 shots one after another out of which only 95were readable and you cannot access other images. Instead of capable of accessing those images, your camera was displaying weird errors that indicates that SD card is corrupt. You have bought SD card withgreat desire and pictures in the card were precious for you. You want them backat any cost.

With the wide use of SD card there is a chanceof losing or deleting your photos accidently or corruption of file system in SDcard due to power failure or virus attack, improper ejection of SD card etc. Youcan definitely get back your RAW photos either lost / deleted from your cameraor computer very easily by using SD recovery software. In addition, with the aid of this advanced software you can restore music files from SD card used in various mobile phone manufacturers like HTC, Sony, Micromax, Motorola, etc with ease. To grab the more information, one can simply visit here https://www.sd-card-recovery.org/music-recovery-from-sd-card.html.

But before using this software, you should keep in mind one thing that you have to stop using your SD card immediately which contains precious pictures, movies, audio and other files. You must be thinking why you had to do such things? The answer is simple, i.e. in order to maximize the chance of SD card data recovery.  A single delete or format option won't erase the real data that is saved on your SD card. The real image is still stored on some part of the memory on your SD card. If you save new image in the card then it will overwrite the older one which may lead to permanent data loss from your SD card.

SD card recovery software will help you in restoring of RAW images lost or deleted due to any of the above mentioned scenarios. It not only helps you in recovery of RAW files but also helps you to recover different file formats such as audio and video. This tool also supports RAW image file formats includes KDC, K25, DCR, RAF, DNG, PEF, X3F,etc. It also undelete JPG files from SD card and also recovers other image file format like GIF, TIFF, TIF, PNG, etc. The application supports recovery of data from TF card and other various kinds of memory cards such as CF, XD, MMC, memory stick manufactured by different companies. This utility also supports recovery of deleted files from files system like FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5, and ExFAT. It can also perform SDHC card recovery along with other SD cards after accidental deletion, severe virus attack, file system corruption & improper ejection of card. It is also capable of retrieving deleted or lost pictures from popular digital camera brands such as Canon, Sony, Fujifilm, Kodak, Olympus, etc. Other than photos, you can recover WAV files and other music file formats like MP3,MIDI, M4b, M4A, AIFC, AIF, AIFF, RA and AMR along with video files from SD card after accidental deletion or loss. It is highly compatible with widely used Microsoft Windows Operating system such as Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, and Windows 2003, 2008. It is also compatible with all latest versions of Mac Operating System.

Steps tocarry out the process of recovery by using the software are:

Step 1: ConnectSD card to your system where the software is already installed. As soon as thesoftware starts processing, you will come across to the main window which have three recovering options – "Recover Files", "Recover Photos" and "Recover Partitions / Drives".You need to click on option i.e. "Recover Photos" in order to recover RAW images from SD card.

Figure 1 : Main Screen

Step 2: Afterthat a new window will pop-up onyour screen where you have to select any one option between "Recover Deleted Photos" and "Recover Lost Photos".You can select either option which matches your scenario.

Figure 2 :Select Recovery Mode

Step 3:Thena new window will appear, select the SDcard so that the software can easily scan the card and click on Next.

Figure 3 : Select the Drive from where you have lost your files

Step 4: Youcan preview all your recovered files as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 : Preview Recovered file Window

Tips to avoid loss or deletion of RAW images from SD card

• You should regularly back up your RAW images or any other photo format to your system in order to compensate for data loss situation in the future.
• Avoid taking pictures from your digital cameras when battery power is low.
• You should check the SD card twice or thrice before formatting.