LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Hey, my little daughter accidentally deleted some digital media files from my external hard drive. They are some photos and videos. Unfortunately I don’t have any backup of them. Is there a way that I can restore them? They’re so precious for me. Please help me!
Nowadays, digital media like videos, photos and songs plays a very important role in our daily life. However, digital media can still be lost from your computer, digital camera or storage devices because of deletion, formatting, corruption, virus attack or even system error. Don’t panic! You’re likely to recover digital media file as long as it’s not overwritten by new data.
To recover digital media file, you need firstly stop putting any new data to your drive or storage device and then find a reliable digital media recovery program for help. I would like to recommend uFlysoft Data Recovery software, for exmaple uFlysoft Digital Media File Recovery Software (http://www.uflysoft.com/photo-recovery-win/) for you. This ultimate application enables you to recover all kinds of digital media files from your computer’s drive or other storage device, including videos, photos and audio files.
The program is fully compatible with Windows PC and Mac devices. But before we start to the digital media file recovery operation, let's check the reasons of the file loss first.
Comon Reasons of Digital Media File Loss
Actually, we cannot list all of the reasons in these article because there are so many reasons can make your files lose. Here we only pick up the comon reasons we can see in our daily lives. Now let's check it out.
1. Improper shutdowns, such as caused by power outages or performing a hard restart: pressing and holding the power button.
2. Hardware problems or failures, including hard drive failures, bad sectors, bad RAM, and the like.
3. Failure to eject external hard drives and related storage devices before disconnecting them or powering them off.
4. Bad programming, particularly if it results in either hard restarts or file that is saved incorrectly.
Any of these causes can result in a corrupted hard drive directory. A corrupted hard drive directory can cause files to apparently "go missing" and lead to further data loss or corruption, such files being overwritten with new file as a corrupted directory may no longer accurately reflect what disk space is free or available vs. the disk space that contains data. So this causes your digital media file loss.
"3-Step" Recovery Operation-Recover Lost Digital Media Files Easily
After learing the reasons above, it's time for you to start recovering files with uFlysoft data recovery software. Without further ado, let's being the recovery now.
1. Download the software on your computer first; (If you are using Mac, you can download the Mac version: uFlysoft Digital Media File Recovery for Mac (http://www.uflysoft.com/data-recovery-mac/))
2. After downloading, install it on your computer/Mac and run it, you can see the volumes are listed on the interface, choose one which your lost digital media files were stored before and start scanning by clicking the button "Scan";
3. Finish scanning? OK, then choose the files which you want to recover and click button "Recovery" and choose the path to save them.
Done! Only 3 steps to recover lost digital media file easily, is it worth for you to have a try when you meet digital media files loss problem?
Kindly Tips
1. After recovery is finished, don't save the recovered files into the same path which your lost files were stored before or you may lose them again because of the overwritten situation.
2. Build a backup for you files is the most workable way to avoid file loss.
3. For more information about data recovery, click here to know more.
