Step-by-Step guide for Recovering Digital Photos from XD Card

Q: I have a Fuji camera. Recently while i was uploading some photos, i used Microsoft Picture editor to crop of the photod, and instead of pressing save as i clicked save. is there any way to recover the pic? It's no longer on the XD card either?
Every single data recovery program iv'e tried recovers some images from the card, but either doesn't let me preview it nor lets me save it withour buying the program.
Any suggstions? HELP PLEASE!!

A: You could try Wondershare Photo Recovery, but it isn't the easiest. It will do a good job of recovering the files. I'm not sure how much success you will have though, since you overwrote the files. The best way is to just try it and see. Good Luck!

XD Picture Card is a flash memory card format, used mainly in digital cameras. XD stands for Extreme Digital. The cards were developed by Olympus and Fujifilm, and introduced into the market in July 2002. Toshiba Corporation and Samsung Electronics manufacture the cards for Olympus and Fujifilm. XD cards are now sold under other brands, including Kodak, SanDisk, PNY, and Lexar, but are not branded with the respective companies logos, except for Kodak. As of 2010[update], XD cards are available in capacities of 16 MiB up to 2 GiB.

Wondershare Photo Recovery supports digital photo recovery from almost all major types of memory card. Built with highly interactive user-interface, these photo recovery software are easy to understand without any prior digital photo recovery experience. The software provides complete photo recovery after all the below data loss situations:

• Photos deleted accidentally or intentionally from Multimedia cards
• Photo loss due to formatting or "Delete All" command
• Memory card error or corrupt, or memory card inaccessible
• Multimedia Card accidentally being pulled out while your device is on
• Multimedia card build in device turned off un-intentionally during a write / read process
• Windows prompts for disk initialization when Multimedia card is just connected
• Data loss due to using between different computers/devices
• Other events that could cause data loss.

XD Cards 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 from XD Card. 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 from XD card 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:

If you have deleted/lost files from your XD Card and want to recover most of those, PLEASE STOP TAKING ANY MORE photoS/VIDEOS from your XD Card. That’s because the more you write new data on your memory card, the chances of recovering old and deleted data becomes less .

Wondershare Photo Recovery is reliable photo recovery software to easily perform photo recovery and XDmemory 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. Key High Quality and Security - High fidelity and no compression on your photos. No any further damage or overwriting to your data. Deep Scan- Recover photos that cannot be recovered even found by other recovery tools to get overall quality and deep recovery with intelligence.

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 XDmemory 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 from XD Card.

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