Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

If you’re desperate and need to recover files now, the next section will help. If you

aren’t exactly in panic mode, you might want to skip to the end of the chapter to

learn first how a filesystem stores files. This little tutorial will help tremendously

when you later experience a disaster.

Using PC Inspector File Recovery

PC Inspector File Recovery is a must-have application for Windows PC users. This

program is freeware and is available from a German company called CONVAR

Deutschland GmbH. You can find it here:

http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm

Download and install this software (see Figure 8.1). PC Inspector File Recovery

enables you to do the following:

■ Reconstruct damaged files.

■ Restore drives corrupted by a power outage or other abnormal system event.

■ Recover from some computer viruses.

■ Undelete files that were mistakenly deleted.

■ Find forgotten or lost files after a disk is formatted.

If the flash media for your camera was physically damaged, PC Inspector File

Recovery will not be able to recover data from it. This software is only capable of

recovering from bad file operations, not physical damage.

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FIGURE 8.1
The PC
Inspector File
Recovery user
interface.