Compact Flash (CF) card is a storage gadget that has flash memory in a uniform enclosure. SanDisk, Nikon and Sony companies first started compact flash card format that are designed to high-resolution digital photo cameras and high-definition camcorders. These cards are obtainable with different storage capacities ranging from several MB’s to several GB’s. Compact flash cards are used in portable electronic gadgets and are generally formatted as FAT16 for cards sized up to 2GB and FAT32 for cards sized above 2GB.
Digital single-lens reflex cameras like digital SLR or DSLR most commonly uses compact flash cards. DSLR camera stores the photos that are captured in a RAW image file format in the CF card. However, in some grievous situations, RAW photos may be deleted or lost from CF cards. The reasons for loss of RAW photos can vary from preventable conditions like accidental deleting the RAW photos files from DSLR camera by using the “Delete All” option to manifest situations that are beyond the control, as RAW photos can be lost due to CF card corruption or formatting of the CF card. In such situations, to get back the deleted or lost RAW image files from compact flash card you can make use of good third party application like photo recovery software. This software also has capabilities to recover deleted RAW files from CF card.
There are other different circumstances where photo may be lost of deleted from CF card. Sometimes, CF card may gets corrupted due to file system corruption, virus attack etc. resulting in photo loss. In some cases, while removing the virus with the aid of antivirus tool from memory card, it may also result in photo loss. Antivirus program scans all the files and folders which are present on CF card. While scanning if the antivirus program finds any virus which is really harmful to the system, then along with virus the RAW files also get deleted by antivirus program. You may also lose RAW files if you unplugged or abruptly pulled your CF from card reader which is connected to the system because the system might be accessing the CF card. If you accidentally format the compact flash card, then the RAW files stored in the card, might not be accessible after formatting. Hence to recover the RAW files you can make use of photo recovery software. You should always make sure to create a backup of the files. If backup is created, once you lost your photos then you can easily get back them. If you don’t have any backup of the RAW files then you can make use of this software.
Remo Recover (Mac) – Media edition is best photo recovery software that is specially designed for recovering deleted or lost RAW image files from the CF card. You can easily download the demo version of the software from the Remo website that is available. It also lets you to recover deleted or lost RAW images of various types like ARW, SR2, CR2, CRW, ORF, MRW, NEF, X3F, PEF, DNG, RAF, K25, DCR KDC etc from the compact flash card.