Recover Lost Photos from Formatted Pen Drives

A very common and convenient type of storage media, pen-drives belong to the USB flash drive family. Compatible with all modern operating systems, they allow one million write or erase cycles and can retain data for ten years. In spite of this long retention duration, data loss is a very common shocking experience associated with pen-drives.

This article discusses in what conditions can photos bet lost from pen-drives, and provides a couple of photo recovery solutions with the steps to be followed.

Let us take a scenario. Suppose, you have taken pictures of one of your friends' marriage ceremony as the only photographer. Concerned about the safety of the photos against the possible data loss risks characteristic of memory cards, you have transferred them to your home computer and in your habitually unmindful manner cut and pasted them on your pen-drive to take it to your studio. There you absentmindedly instead of refreshing reformatted it. Now, it is all over! The photos are complete gone! You are at a loss. 

Cause: 

Pen-drives are an external device, but not part of the computer. Computers simply read and write flash-drive data using the same system commands as for a mechanical disk drive with the storage device appearing to the computer operating system and user interface as just another drive. Thus, data lost or deleted from a pen-drive do not go to Trash or Recycle Bin; they just get lost.

Solution: 

This loss is really serious. But there is hope, because when you delete your data or format your drive, the drives partition table still has the data's complete information though they are not visible to us. Thus, you may be able to recover your photos by running your computer's data backup program which will try to gather information of your photos from the partition table.

If the loss is too serious to be tackled by this built-in program, you need to use some specially written powerful digital photo recovery software. Such photo recovery programs are developed using highly advanced methods to provide comprehensive photo recovery solutions needed at the time.

Along this line, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 comprehensively recovers lost multimedia files of various formats from almost all storage media. Compatible with Windows and Apple Mac operating systems, this digital photo recovery application saves the recovered data in a user-specified location without modifying or overwriting the original files.