PhotoRec = Lifesaver

PhotoRec’s mission is simple, but crucial to any careless or absent-minded computer user. Through its dos-like interface, PhotoRec allows users to recover deleted photos from any sort of drive, whether the hard disk, an SD, or a thumbdrive.

It took me a while to recover photos from a 4GB SD card (about two hours). Luckily, I accidentally lost photos of an event the previous night, and a friend telling me about PhotoRec was like mana falling from heaven. I was able to recover said pictures, and even images I took months ago!

That being said, users who aren’t used to a dos interface—and the act of browsing through menus with your keyboard and not your mouse—may find PhotoRec a bit hard to use. But, it works as advertised, and it proved a definite lifesaver for me! Especially since it’s a free utility!

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