In the ever-emerging world of digital photography we have come to acknowledge the fact that we no longer have a physical piece of celluloid film to record and archive our images. Instead, we use various forms of media storage including Secure Digital, XD, Memory-Stick, Compact Flash and others. While this is a great way to store an infinite amount of photos there’s always the possibility and risk of media failure.

Recently, we encountered some major data errors on one of our larger Compact Flash cards (8GB) and we found ourselves in what could have been a disastrous situation and outcome.We needed the photos on the media for an upcoming article and it was an event that could not be re-scheduled. Having some experience with basic data-recovery, I did some research and found a few recovery programs that focused directly on digital photography media. I found some great reviews of the software, Photorescue, but I was still a bit wary of how good it would actually work. Thankfully, you can download a demo-version of the software and I did just that. It ran for sometime but when it was finished I saw that it recovered all the problem files, which ended up being way more files than I expected.

That said, I was convinced that this program was going to do the trick. It gave me a purchase option of $39.95 and I was sold. The price was good and this software was going to save our asses. . The article ran, the picture looked great and now we no longer have to fear a faulty or problematic memory-card.

I highly recommend this program if you have encountered errors and/or corrupt files with your digital camera memory cards. For more information and the free demo-download visit, www.datarecovery.com