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Recovery of RAW images

Admin — Tue, 11 May 2010 07:37:24 +0000

Digital cameras have been a revolution in the world of photography. Digital cameras have made the photography process so simple and affordable, that millions of photos are being captured every single day, by users all over the world. While amateur photographers make use of low end digital cameras, professional photographers make use of high end DSLR cameras for capturing images.

DSLR cameras are high end cameras, which are capable of producing high quality images, due to the advanced optics that is made use of in these cameras. Unlike the low end digital cameras that produce images in formats like JPEG, JPG, TIFF etc., DSLR cameras make use of customized image formats depending on the manufacturer like, Canon makes use of CR2 and CRW image formats and Sony makes use of ARW and SR2 formats.

Though there is a difference in the type of camera, and the quality of the images produced, there is no difference in the storage device used by these two types of cameras. Both types of cameras make use of flash memory card for storage of data, and hence chances of data loss are high in both the cases. RAW image photo recovery needs to be done with extra care, as the image files are large in size, and every minute detail need to be recovered.

RAW image file recovery is made easy with REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software. This digital photo recovery software lets you recover RAW image files of different formats like CRW, CR2, NEF, ARW, RAW, 3FR, MRW, ORF and SR2. The data recovery software also lets you recover audio and video files of all well known formats from hard drives, USB drives and flash memory cards.

Recover and Restore iPhoto library

Admin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:56:48 +0000

All your library information and the photos, are stored by iPhoto in a separate library folder. When photos are imported, they get copied into the library folder, where thay are managed and organized in a proper manner.

You can just use iPhoto’s interface to manage your photos, and you don’t even need to look inside the iPhoto library folder itself. However, in some cases, especially if you encounter problems with your iPhoto library, it can be useful to know a little bit more about what goes on inside the library folder.

There are sometimes when your iPhoto can, for some reason or another, become corrupt and unable to use. Various symptoms including, your photos not showing up properly (e.g. showing up as gray or black squares), the library becoming unusually slow, or iPhoto crashing as soon as you try to open your library. iPhoto library does provide certain built-in rebuild functions to restore iPhoto library, but you require a professional data recovery software to restore iPhoto library to the fullest.

REMO Recover (Mac) Media Edition software lets you restore iPhoto library with ease. The software lets you recover photos of all well known formats, from both HFS and HFS+ volumes.

Memory Card Data Recovery Software

Admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:31:51 +0000

A memory card is a device which offers an easy, fast and reliable way for storing and transferring all kinds of digital files. It works like a portable hard drive but comes with some superior advantages, since almost every memory card is based on flash memory technology, and the absence of moving parts makes flash memory cards much more durable and reliable than hard drives. They come in different sizes and shapes depending on the manufacturer and the various storage capacities.

Memory cards are widely used in digital cameras, game consoles, cell phones, and industrial applications. Today’s choices in flash memory storage devices for digital cameras and other devices are mind-boggling. The fact that there are all kinds of memory storage options like Smart Media (SM), Compact Flash (CF), Memory Stick (MS), Multimedia Card (MMC), Secure Digital (SD), extreme Digital (XD), Micro drive etc. leaves the user completely helpless as to which one to choose.

Like hard drives, memory cards too face loss of data. The reasons for data loss in a memory card are no different from that of a hard drive, and memory card recovery is very much similar to hard drive recovery. Memory card data recovery can be done efficiently using REMO Recover (Windows) Pro Edition software. Memory card recovery is made easy by the easy-to-use interface of the software. In addition to this, the software also lets you recover data from lost/deleted partitions.

iPod Data Recovery

Admin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:19:45 +0000

The iPod is a premium product designed and marketed by Apple. The product line-up is diverse, starting from the compact iPod shuffle to the latest third generation iPod Touch. The iPod line can play several audio file formats including mp3, aac, wav, etc. The iPod Photo introduced the ability to display JPEG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, and PNG image file formats. Fifth and sixth generation iPod Classic, as well as third generation iPod Nano, can additionally play MPEG-4 (H.264/MPEG-4 AVC) and QuickTime video formats, with restrictions on video dimensions, encoding techniques and data-rates.

Some of the common errors you might face during the usage of your iPod can be summarized as follows,

Loss of photos, music and videos from the iPod, due to accidental deletion, virus attacks, sabotage etc.
The iPod may pop up error messages like, “Failed to locate supported file types or there are no photos found on this device”, or “Disk is locked”.
The iPod freezes up, not allowing you to navigate it.
Hardware shows an exclamation point with a folder icon.

The problems given above are quite common among iPod users, but there is nothing to worry, as long as there is a good data recovery software that can recover deleted iPod files. REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software lets you recover deleted iPod files with utmost ease.

Precision tools for advanced data recovery

Admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:39:22 +0000

Disk Doctors has positioned themselves as the leading data recovery company in the world. This was primarily a result of their worldwide reputation for data recovery from physically damaged hard disks. However over the last several years Disk Doctors has developed a suite of superb data recovery tools that allow many file recovery problem to be solved by users at a considerable financial savings. Of these programs we are spotlighting five of the best.

Disk Doctors Mac Data Recovery Software will easily find and restore files lost in partitions using the proprietary HFS+, HFSX file systems on Mac OS X. If your Apple partition map is corrupted it can be restored. Of course the program handles quick and easy recovery of accidentally deleted files on Macs as well. An interesting not is that Disk Doctors Mac Recovery software ail also retrieve lost files on Apple universal application that may be installed on your Mac computer.
The Disk Doctors Windows Data Recovery Software is the most powerful of its kind in existence. Dozens of companies make programs to recover lost files and partitions on windows but none of them will rescue as much data form as many different file types as Disk Doctors.

Everyone who owns a digital camera has a one time or another inadvertently deleted a smart card or inboard memory full of pictures. It is not a happy experience. However Disk Doctors has a powerful photo recovery tool just for rescuing these types of files. Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery Software will restore deleted files on a Compact Flash Card (CF), Smart Media Card, Secure Digital Card (SD), Multi-Media Card (MMC) and XD Picture Card (XD). The program will even recover RAW camera file from cameras made by the top high-end manufacturers. A fabulous by product of this software is that it will also recover lost or deleted files MP4 players as well!

Disk Doctors Undelete is the best-deleted file recovery software ever made. The program uses a wizard style interface so that anyone can follow a few simple steps and in minutes locate deleted files on their PC. This includes files emptied from the Windows recycle bin. Emails seem to be forever being misplaced. Sometimes we scratch our heads and simply wonder where they went. In truth most emails are accidentally deleted as with the majority of other lost files. But Outlook emails can actually delete themselves. Simple scanning and decompression of Outlook emails often results in their being damaged and lost. Disk Doctors Outlook Mail Recovery Software will quickly find these lost messages for you and save them to a disk or other media.

Outlook Express recovery for the compact email client

Admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:41:31 +0000

Outlook express is a darned nice little email system. It uses clean Windows, has some nice tools built in like spell check, and it costs absolutely nothing. Outlook Express comes bundled with Internet Explorer, the most widely used internet browser in the universe. But, the Express sometimes gets derailed when important emails and postings come up lost. This occurs when emails are sent over a questionable network or when files are compacted. It can even happen during a virus scan such as that used by Yahoo Mail. These emessages are never lost forever, when one has on their computer the Outlook Express Recovery Program from Disk Doctors. This simple to use drag and drop utility will scan hard drives and networks for any and all corrupted Outlook Express files and put them back on track.

An effective program for digital media and iPod recovery

Admin — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:36:08 +0000

Anyone can easily have an investment of several hundred dollars worth of favorite songs on their personal iPod. And as sturdy as an iPod is it is not immune to a data corruption and information being lost. In the case of an iPod that information is MP3 and MP4 files, in other words… songs. Fortunately, iPods use a USB connection to download music file. And even more fortunately Disk Doctors makes an inexpensive easy to use program built for digital media and iPod recovery. Simply download the Disk Doctors Digital Media Recovery Program onto your PC. Then plug in your iPod and follow the programs simple steps to quickly recover your favorite seemingly lost tunes.

The means to completely delete sensitive PC data

Admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:49:38 +0000

Have you ever run a bank statement or credit card bill through a file shredder? The narrow strips of paper recovered make excellent packing material but in no way make your bank account or credit card numbers safe from theft. Some Scotch tape and a bit of patience could easily piece together your private records. If one truly wanted to destroy those records beyond recognition, the paper would have to be placed into a machine known as a confetti shredder. And, even then, the pieces may not be small enough to prevent reconstruction. Digital data faces the same problems as does printed information. In order to be made secure or permanently deleted, it must be broken down to the smallest particle possible. That is the purpose and function of the Disk Doctors file shredder.

This excellent data eraser program utilizes a variety of shredding patterns to rip digital information stored in files and folders down to a collection of their base components. Once the Disk Doctors file eraser has been used, the information can never be recovered or stolen.

Windows data organizer reconstruction programs

Admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:43:01 +0000

Data recovery is a broad term applying to everything from USB data recovery on simple 2MB Flash drives to complicated restoration of information on RAID arrays. Most data recovery applies to scanning, finding and resaving of deleted or corrupted files on personal computer hard drives. These can be divided into two needed programs to affect the restoration of files. The first is FAT recovery software. Older computer operating on Windows 95 or 98 use FAT 16 or FAT 32 drives. To find and restore lost files on these systems, one must enlist the aid of a program designed exactly for that purpose such as the Disk Doctors FAT recovery software.

Newer computers use the NTFS method of separating and locating files. Systems experiencing a logical crash and using NTFS need a targeted NTFS recovery program. Both FAT recovery and NTFS recovery programs are available at diskdoctors.net, bundled together so as to offer purchasers significant savings on a package that assures them coverage of any potential Windows data recovery need.

What to do when you wrongly bypass the Windows recycle bin

Admin — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:21:42 +0000

Did you know that by using Shift and Delete on a selected Windows file, you can send a file or folder into oblivion, bypassing the windows recycle bin? This saves a great deal of time when you want to cleanup no longer needed files that are laying around your desktop. It also allow you to be much more selective as to which files you place in the recycle bin. That way, when you do empty the Windows recycle bin, you can be certain that every file you discard is completely unwanted. Unless, you really weren’t paying attention as closely as you should have when you emptied the recycle bin or that folder you disposed of using shift/delete contained dozens of files you actually need. When files are accidentally deleted and the recycle bin is inadvertently emptied, there is a simple, readily accessible solution.

That solution is to use Disk Doctors undelete, the world’s most powerful undelete software. How powerful is Disk Doctors undelete? It supports hard drives over a terabyte in size. The Disk Doctors program for recycle bin recovery can actually scan one of these huge hard drives and based on a few simple criteria you place in effect, find and restore a single file. No other program to undelete files is half as effective as this dynamic data recovery tool from Disk Doctors.