Photo Recovery will be the only recommend program if you are looking for a program to recover deleted, lost, formatted or corrupted files from the memory card used in your digital camera, mobile phone or video game console, simply for efficient recovery ability. Here you'll learn what Photo Recovery is and how to perform memory card recovery using this data recovery tool.

What's Hodo Photo Recovery?

Hodo Photo Recovery is a Windows-based application that will help you recover deleted, formatted, lost, corrupted or inaccessible photos, music, movies, documents from PCs and mobile storage media. This photo recovery software features fast scan process and quality scan results. It also comes with additional features such as thorough scan, ease of use, ability to preview recoverable files.

With this lightweight program, you can easily and securely perform memory card recovery, no matter you mistakenly delete your memory card files or format the memory card, or even you encounter with the memory card not formatted error or any other unknown reasons. It allows you to recover 550+ file formats from almost all memory card types including compact flash card, SD card (SDHC), xD picture card, memory stick, MMC card etc.

How to perform memory card recovery?

After being deleted, formatted or missing by other reasons, the lost data just become invisible, rather than wiped off immediately. The data is tail there with the space marked as empty. If you don't save new data to this space, the data can be easily recovered. Following is the tutorial:

* STEP 1 – Download and install Hodo Photo Recovery in your computer, and then launch it.
* STEP 2 – Connect the memory card to your computer in a card reader or the device.
Note: Restart your PC and re-connect the card if it cannot be detected or recognized.
* STEP 3 – Click Start button to get started, select the card that you want to scan for the lost files, click Next and select the file types you'd like to recover.
* STEP 4 – Click Scan and a scanning process will be executed to look for those deleted or missing files. A few minutes later, a lot of files will be found and listed in the left of the software interface.
* STEP 5 - Preview and recover deleted files. Save them to a desired destination on your computer.

Tips for memory card recovery

* 1. Don't use the memory card when you find files lost from it to avoid data overwrite. It's better to take the card out of device.
* 2. Don't save the recovered data to the memory card where you lost files.
* 3. Backup your important files on a regular basis.
* 4. Try the trial version of Hodo Photo Recovery when you are not sure if it's the right tool. The trial version allows you to scan the memory card for all the lost files on it, and preview the found files, but not recover them. Hodo Data Recovery is another great tool for memory card recovery.