A Relaxing way to Recover Digital Photos due to Virus Infection

A virus infection in a computer is a nightmare for anyone-losing all the data, formatting the system, etc. It is worse for designers and photographers who store their precious pictures on the computer system. A virus can destroy or damage all their important files and data. If the virus itself does not destroy or delete the file, sometimes the steps to remove the virus may do so. The loss can be compensated if you have a healthy backup of all your precious pictures. Whatever be the reason for the loss, if your pictures are deleted or misplaced, you can always use a picture recovery software. These software are a 'life-saver' for those who do not keep a back-up of the files.

If you lose photos due to virus infection, here are the steps we recommend that you follow. If you're uncomfortable following these steps, ask a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about computers to help you, or call a commercial computer support service.

1. Disconnect any external hard drive and run your anti-virus software on your computer. Make sure the software is up-to-date.
2. If you have a backup on an external hard drive:
   • Connect the drive to your computer and run your anti-virus software on that drive.
   • Copy your photos from that drive back onto the internal drive of your computer.
3. If you have a backup on CDs or DVDs, copy your photos from them back to your computer hard drive.
4. Check your photo folders to see that all photos have been properly transferred. You can do this by using special comparison software or by checking that both the number of files and the total amount of storage in your photo folders is the same on your backup disc as on your computer hard drive. The easiest way to find this out using Windows Explorer is to:
   • Right click on the folder name
   • Then click on 'Properties'
   • Check the size of all the files combined in the folder in bytes as well as by the number of files.

The first thing to do is use an updated anti-virus to remove the virus from the system. Once you have successfully deleted the virus from the system, take a back-up of all the important files from your system, unless the files were deleted by the virus.

After removing the virus, format the drive in which the virus infection occurred. Formatting a drive deletes all the data from within, thus you will need to use a picture recovery to recover deleted pictures. Such tools are specifically designed using technology competent enough to scan the hard drive for deleted multimedia files.

Wondershare Photo Recovery can recover deleted pictures without damaging or altering them in any way. The software has the capability of recovering almost every type of popular multimedia files since it supports JPEG, RAW, TIFF, gif, and other multimedia file formats. It has an easy-to-use interface which enables even people without any technical knowledge to recover files.

SD card and other Memory cards do not immediately re-use space from deleted files and leave it there for a while after the file has been deleted; therefore you can recover deleted photos due to virus infection. A Photo that has been deleted a while ago still has a good chance of being recovered, but the chances of an absolute undelete decrease the longer you leave it, because it is only a matter of time before that space is re-used and overwritten. So the Key to recovering your deleted photos is to act immediately and you will be almost guaranteed to have your files back.

You can get back deleted photos due to virus infection on your own with a good photo recovery software. Quick Internet searches will give you a tremendous number of programs that advertise lost photo recovery, and most of them cost between $25 - $40. And I'm using a program called Wondershare Photo Recovery that does the very same job but just cost me $29.95. Now I will tell you how to get back deleted photos by Photo Recovery:

Here are a few precautions you need to follow which are essential if you want to recover deleted photos due to virus infection.

1. Remove the memory card from your camera and put it in a safe place so that you won’t accidentally overwrite your deleted photos.

2. Don't save any pictures to this memory card.

If you do save new images to the memory card, then chances are the deleted files will be overwritten by the new images rendering deleted photos unrecoverable.

Wondershare Photo Recovery is reliable photo recovery software to easily perform photo recovery and Flashmemory card recovery with nice quality. It is also non-destructive media recovery software which helps you retrieve video, restore audio, and recover music from all storage devices. No matter your photos or multimedia files have been deleted accidently, memory cards have been formatted.

After the installation, lauch this photo recovery tool. The main panel shows like this:

The Photo Recovery start to scan your disk including your PC hard disk and your Flashmemory card. This step may take some time depending on the size of disk space. You don't need to wait until scanning is finished and you can click "Next" to finish scanning.

Here you can preview the available and recoverable photos you want to recover like below.

After you select path or enter a directory for recovered photos, you can click "Next" button to recover the photos due to virus infection.

For better running Photo Recovery and get higher recovery quality, please check your computer system at first.