Welcome to "Computer" Backup!
We call our site and service "computer backup" but you're still at the right place for
online backup and recovery of your digital photos!
We can point you in the right direction for digital photo recovery software just in
case you are not able to view or use some of your digital photo images.
We work with internationally renowned
Ontrack Data Recovery.
Phil Bridge, MD of Ontrack, points out that "recent research (1) found that almost 90% of consumers now own
a digital camera but around one-third do not back up their photographs."
(1) Symantec survey of 2,227 customers.
"The danger is that they could lose once-in-a-lifetime memories if anything happens to the memory cards that
they use to store their images on."
Phil goes on to list the 5 most common reasons for digital photo disasters:
- Reformatting: Users often forget that reformatting a memory card will remove all the
files stored on it including protected pictures and print orders. Your digital photos can then only be
recovered by experts so Ontrack advises users to think again before you reformat.
- Overwriting: A common mistake is the accidental overwriting of images held on camera
memory cards with new photos. It's easily done warns Ontrack, so check, check and check again that you've
successfully transferred your images onto your PC, laptop, CD or DVD before taking new pictures.
- Cracked & damaged media: Packing memory cards into overstuffed suitcases can result
in them becoming bent or damaged on the journey home, making them unreadable. Wrapping cards in clothes and
placing them in the middle of your case offers some degree of protection in transit and helps ensure the
safety of your pictures during your return trip.
- Burnt media: Leaving memory cards in an elevated temperature environment - close to a
heat source such as a radiator or oven - will increase the chances of failure. Heat is unlikely to
cause damage to the digital photos on the memory card but may stop the card and your digital photos from
being recognised in a card reader.
- Holiday injuries: For those of you that opt for a warm holiday abroad instead of a snowy
week with the in-laws, digital cameras often get dropped in the sand or splashed with water around the pool,
damaging smart media to the extent that digital photos can't be viewed. Only an expert can recover digital
photos from smart media damaged in this way, so users should be careful to keep digital cameras in padded
and watertight cases to keep them safe.
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all your files!
Digital photo recovery software
It's fine talking about digital photo online backup and how to protect your photos, but sometimes the worst
happens, and you need either digital photo recovery software or professional help to recover the data off
the storage medium. Well, you're at the right place as we can offer you both!
Here's a choice of two good packages that you can use to try to retrieve digital photos:
Here's what the company says about "Recover My Photos Professional":
"Recover My Photos is a powerful data recovery program to recover deleted photos including JPEG, NEF,
TIFF, BMP, MOV, MPEG and WAV. Works on Smart Media, Compact Flash, Memory Sticks, hard drives,
floppy disks, Zip disks, USB drives. Can recover your precious photos even after your digital
camera media has been formatted. You can fully preview photos before recovery."
And this is what this supplier reports about "Digital Photo Recovery":
"Digital Photo Recovery is a digital image recovery program designed for media recovery. Our digital
picture recovery software will recover lost, deleted and formatted digital photos, audio and video
files from removable media such as SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, MicroDrive, xD Picture Card,
FlashCard, PC Card, Multimedia Card, SD Card, from Zip Disks, Floppy Disks, Hard Disks or other
storage devices.
"Digital Photo Recovery? will recover lost, deleted and formatted
digital photos on removable media. Works with every type of digital card
reader appearing as a drive letter in your local PC. If you have received
an error: Media is not formatted would you like to format now? then Digital
Photo Recovery will save the day! Don't lose great shots of those special
moments! Digital Photo Recovery will recover them for you! Our digital picture
recovery software easily recovers lost digital photos, Audio & Video files
from removable media or hard drives.
"Featuring innovative media recovery algorithms, our photo recovery
software is the best recovery solution for image recovery, picture recovery,
photo rescue, data recovery, photo restore or digital media recovery whether
files were deleted, the media was corrupted or formatted. Using advanced
digital media recovery technology Digital Photo Recovery? makes photo rescue
a task anyone can perform. It is a reliable solution for photo rescue, digital
image recovery or digital picture recovery.
"Digital Photo Recovery recovers the following types of files: JPG,
JPEG, TIF, GIF, RiFF, TIFF, AVI, PNG, BMP, MPEG, MOV, WAV, MIDI, QuickTime.
With a Camera update you can recover: Canon CRW, Kodak DCR, Minolta MRW,
Nikon NEF, Fuji RAF. Our award-winning digital image recovery software allows
you to quickly and easily recover your lost files."
Laptop backup
A survey by our friends at
Ontrack Data Recovery (we're one of their authorised partners) of 1400 computer users showed
that 58% of respondents were going to use their computer "until it dies on me".
Coupled with the fact that 63 per cent of people back up critical data less than once a month, and 23 per cent never
perform backups, the outlook for safe and secure data is not promising! So, while we're talking here about backing
up your digital photos, while you're in the mood, why not backup your laptop too?
Digital photo recovery specialist
So what happens if you haven't - yet? - been doing your backups and you have lost some data? And you are unsure about
using software for the recovery of your missing digital photographs? Well, don't despair yet, as data is sometimes
retrievable. You can get professional help from Ontrack Data Recovery: ask for a free quote by clicking on the button below.
