It has happened even to the best photographers. You just took what might be the shot that can prove that Bigfoot does exist. You go home and begin to download the photos from your storage media. Then something goes wrong. Your storage media suddenly dies, taking with it all the images you have taken. Your shots are gone forever! Well, maybe not. There might still be hope for you yet. There are many companies that offer their services to help in image recovery. Here are a few of the well-known companies that can help you learn how to save your images.

  1. PanteraSoft created the recovery utility Flash File Recovery. Their application is designed to recover previously deleted images. It is also capable of salvaging photos from damaged, defective, formatted or corrupted flash drives and memory sticks. It can even access and attempt camera recovery by accessing the images from the camera's built-in memory. Their software supports many storage media including CompactFlash, MicroDrive, SD cards, xD Picture Cards and Multimedia Cards.
  2. Flobo Recovery is another leading provider of powerful data recovery drive images, hard disk drive repair and PC privacy utilities. All of their software are usable with the Windows OS. They have software which allow you to recover Photoshop files. There is also software that allow you to extract images from corrupted MS Office files as well as recover multimedia files that have been stored on optical media.
  3. Zero Assumption Recovery has a digital image recovery software that is easy to use and yet effective. Their software can recover accidentally deleted images from different media like CompactFlash, SmartMedia, Memory Sticks and other popular formats. It can recover TIFF, Exif, JPEG and GIF formats. The recovery even works with images that were inadvertently deleted from the camera or from cards that were accidentally formatted. Note that not all cameras are supported by their recovery software. If the image was created or deleted using an unsupported camera, there is a chance that the software will be unable to recover it.
  4. eProvided is the only company in this list the provides a service instead of software to help you recover your images. Unlike the previously stated software, eProvided can also do USB drive rescue if the drive is not recognized by your computer. They can recover images from any type of storage media, even media that has been physically destroyed. Aside from recovery, they also repair USB devices. They can also recover partitions as well as do format recovery of images. The company has a 98% recovery success rate.

These are just four of the many companies who offer software and services to help you rescue your precious photographs from a digital grave.

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