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How to Restore Lost Photos from Virus Infected Storage Devices?
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Posted On :
Nov-26-2010
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Sometimes, virus penetrate the storage devices and delete your pictures. What to do when this kind of thing happen? Can you recove the pictures by yourself? What kind of tools can you use to recover your lost pictures? Read this passage and find it out.
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As digital cameras' widely use, hard drive and portable storage devices have become the first choice for us to save pictures because of their high capacity. They bring us much convenience, at the same time the risks co-exist. The main risk is computer virus. Numerous viruses can be easily transferred from computer to portable storage devices.
Problem: Virus may unexpectedly penetrate the storage devices such as memory card or flash drive and make those precious pictures lost. Once you encounter the situation that your photos are lost due to virus attack, how to restore lost photos due to virus infection from storage devices?
Solution: There are two possible reasons that virus may make your pictures become lost. One is that the virus makes the pictures in your storage devices invisible, the other is your pictures are deleted by the virus. But the first thing you have to do is to scan and remove the virus with anti-virus programs immediately. After the virus is cleaned.
If the photos are hidden by the virus, the solution is pretty easy. Just adjust the corresponding settings to make those hidden pictures become visible.
If the photos in the storage devices are deleted by the virus, don’t worry. They are still recoverable. It’s just you have to take more steps as the best way is to rely on a photo recovery program to get the deleted pictures back.
If you are using Window OS, Wondershare Photo Recovery is this kind of photo recovery program that canrestore lost pictures caused by virus infection. It can scan hard drives and storage devices thoroughly and safely.
If you are using Mac OS X, have a try of Photo Recovery for Mac. It’s a recovery program which can recover deleted photos from Mac after emptying Trash Bin, but also recover virus deleted photos from storage devices
Following is the step-by-step guide about how to restore lost pictures due to virus attack with Wondershare Photo Recovery. For those who are using Macintosh, the recovery steps are quite similar.
Step 1: Install the recovery program on your computer. Connect your virus infected storage devices. Select the target device you want to restore lost pictures from, and then click “Start Scan”to start the scanning process.
Step2: Scan the target storage device, preview and restore lost pictures.
After a while, you will get a list of found pictures. Those pictures are all recoverable. Preview the pictures to see if your pictures deleted by the virus can be found. If they are found, purchase the full version and click “Recover”
Step3: Select a recovery path or enter a directory where you want to save the restored pictures. Do not save the recovered pictures to the same storage devices in case the original deleted picture data are written over.
See? It’s pretty easy. No matter your lost pictures due to virus infection are hidden or deleted. There are always solutions to restore them on your own. One more tip, before the virus infected lost photos are recovered from storage devices, do not attempt to save more files to the devices.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_How to Restore Lost Photos from Virus Infected Storage Devices?_43112.aspx
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Source link:http://www.disk-utilities.com/articles/restore-lost-photos-from-virus-infected-devices.html
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Keywords :
restore lost photos, virus infection, virus attack, virus deleted pictures,
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