Guidelines to Recover Deleted Pictures from Memory Stick Duo

Sony DSC -W320/G is one of the trendy digital cameras from the company’s Cybershot W series. It is stuffed with advanced technologies and fun-to-use features with 14.1 megapixels, 4x optical zoom and Carl Zeiss 26 mm wide angle lens. It delivers incredible picture quality. It supports several storage media including SD card, CF card, SDHC card, Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick Pro Duo, etc. Memory Stick Duo is considered safe to store pictures but there is a high probability of saved files getting accidentally deleted. A minor human error can spoil the work of months. But an updated backup, certainly, provides relief as one can restore the lost or deleted photos. If you fail to recover the deleted photos since there is no backup available, then the use of a Picture recovery tool becomes indispensable.

Consider a situation when you use Sony DSC 320 to capture memorable pictures of your daughter’s birthday, and you end up pressing “Delete All” button while handling naughty toddlers gang at the party. One small mistake and the photos are all gone. Well, you would fret over the loss of valuable photographs, considering that you have lost those moments forever. But that’s not the case, the pictures can never get deleted permanently and can be recovered using professional photo recovery software.

Consider a scenario when you load the memory stick  Duo in your Sony CyberShot digital camera and try to click a picture with it, you may receive the following error
  “No memory space”

As a result of the above error, you are neither able to click new photographs nor you can access the previously saved pictures and videos from your camera. The above frustrating error can appear on the LCD display of your CyberShot camera in the following circumstances mentioned below:

• If there is an interruption in the read/write process
• If the file system of your memory stick has got corrupted
• In event of virus attacks
• Usage of same memory card in different digital devices

These Memory Stick Duo saves files like a hard drive does. Each and every file has to mark an entry into the file system table so when a file is deleted, its content is not immediately destroyed, it marks the space available for use again by changing the entry name. The probability of file recovery is high if no more files are saved onto the Memory Stick Duo.

Therefore, in cases of photo loss one is suggested to use a photo recovery software. These tools penetrate and scan the file system of a card to extract and restore deleted pictures clicked from your Sony DSC - W320/G. A Digital picture recovery is even possible in cases of logical failures such as card corruption, virus attacks, read/write errors etc. Picture recovery tool recovers deleted/accidentally formatted photos from several camera brands including Sony, Nikon, Sigma, Canon etc. Its also easy to retrieve deleted / lost  photos from Olympus Camera.Visit http://www.recoverdeletedphoto.net/easy-way-to-restore-deleted-pictures-from-olympus-camera to know about the process of recovery. The do-it-yourself Picture recovery software supports all image file formats like JPEG, RAW, PNG, BMP, TIFF, CR2, CRW, etc. Moreover, this tool is simple to use, all you need to do is download the software and install it on the computer to recover pictures in a few minutes time. You can also use this tool for recovering deleted pictures on Mac OS X. Thus, this is the best deleted picture file restoration tool.

Follow the steps given below to recover deleted pictures from Memory Stick Duo:

Step 1: Remove the affected Memory Stick Duo from your camera and connect it as a slave to the healthy computer. Download and install the Photo Recovery software on the system to which, the affected Memory Stick Duo is connected. Run the program by double-clicking the shortcut icon on the desktop. From the main screen that is displayed, select “Recover Deleted Photos” option to recover photos that have been deleted as shown in Figure 1 and proceed.

Figure 1. Select Recover Deleted Photos

Step 2: Select the memory card which appears as a logical volume or storage device from which the data needs to be recovered as shown in Figure 2 and click on “Next”.

Figure 2. Select Memory Card

Step 3: The “Photo Recovery” software lets you select the image file types that are listed, based on their unique signatures, or may even skip this step as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3. Select Image File types

Step 4: Once the recovery software finishes scanning, the recovered files will be displayed shown in Figure 4. You can view the recovered files either by “Data View“or “File Type View” option.

Figure 4. Data View /File Type View

Step 5: The “Preview” option will let you view the recovered images and help you to evaluate the capability of the application. You can save the pictures to any preferred location as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5. Preview Recovered Files