One of the worst feelings in the world overcomes you when you accidentally delete files from your computer. This feeling is multiplied when the files are precious moments captured in photos.

The good news is that you can recover your lost pictures but there are no guarantees.

Recently I formatted a memory card that was full of pictures that I had not transferred over to my computer and I was worried that they were gone. Luckily I knew right away that I needed to recover files, this is important because if you write on the disk the chances of recovery go down by a large percentage.

If found a program called Recuva, installed it and ran it. After about 45 minutes all of my pictures were found and I was able to transfer them to my computer.

Here is what you need to know about data recovery:

1. If you write to the drive after a deletion the chances of recovery go down by a large percentage
2. If your hard drive or memory card is physically bad you will have to send it to a special shop to get the data recovered and the price tag can be well over $1000

Good Luck

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