The single most commonly lost or damaged file type requiring data recovery is the digital image file. The question arises as to whether this file type is lost more often or simply more aggressively attempted for recovery. The latter is probably the case as losing precious photographs seems to be the most urgent cause of of data recovery inquiries. When you accidentally or prematurely delete photos from your high end digital camera what you are usually doing is deleting those files from the memory card connected to your digital device. Obviously then when you attempt digital photograph recovery you must begin by trying to recover memory card files.

Memory card recovery is actually one of the more simple data recovery tasks. The reason for this is that even the largest memory card formats hold no more than 16 gigabytes of data. In comparison to a 500 GB external hard drive this is a fairly small storage device to scan through. Plus as all of these memory cards are solid state flash memory driven, the response time while scanning is exceedingly fast.