Recover Files from Compact Flash Card

Have you lost files from your CF card? Are you trying to learn how to recover deleted files from CF cards? Under such circumstances, these files are still present on the card but not visible to the user. Hence, by recovering these files using powerful CF card recovery software like Remo Recover, you can easily get them back.

Remo Recover is one of the best SD card recovery software to restore CF card files when you have experienced deletion, loss due to corruption, formatting, virus attacks, during transfer, or other reasons. Supports recovery of photos, videos, audio files, documents, and many more types of files. Download Remo Recover and get started with your CF card recovery free trial.

Remo Recover, A Compact Flash Data Recovery Software

Remo Photo Recovery software is a CF recovery software that provides simple 4 step procedure to recover files and photos from CF card. Using this tool, you can restore media files like photos, videos & audio along with documents of several formats from Compact Flash cards. Also, it provides 'Select File Type' option to recover particular file type instead of recovering all types of files.

Along with recovering data from a corrupt CF card, Remo Recover also supports recovery of files from SD card, micro SD, mini SD, XD, SDHC, MMC or other types of memory card. Also, it provides support for Sony Cyber Shot photo recovery including Lexar, Sony, Transcend, San Disk, Kingston, HP, Toshiba, Panasonic and many others.

You can also use this CF card data recovery software to recover mobile memory card files which show format errors or has become inaccessible. Also, the application retrieves data from other storage mediums such as external USB drives, iPods, hard drives, and so on. Furthermore, the utility supports photo recovery from Pentax, Nikon, Canon, GoPro, Samsung, Panasonic, and many other camera brands. Remo Recover tool is available for both Mac and Windows OS versions.

How to Perform Compact Flash Drive Recovery?

1. Using Remo Recover software

• Click on the Download Now button, download the software and install it on your system
• Connect the CF card to the system and launch the software to get started with CF card recovery process
• Select Recover Photos option in the main screen and choose the CF card from the list of drives. Click Scan button to initiate scanning
• After scanning, the software displays a list of recovered photo files in two types of views - Data View and File Type View
• Preview the files using Preview option and save the recovered files

2. Using CHKDSK

If you have lost files from your Compact Flash card due to corruption, then you can use the command prompt. However, this method cannot guarantee you the complete data recovery from CF card but it makes a few lost folders accessible to you. Moreover, the chkdsk function can fix corrupt CF card. Follow the steps given below to know how to recover lost folders from CF card.

• Connect CF card to your computer
• Type CMD in the Start menu and right click on the Command Prompt search result
• Select Run as Administrator
• In the command prompt, type CHKDSK X: /F /R (here replace the letter ‘X’ with the drive letter of CF card)

This method will fix CF card corruption issue and allow it for further use.

How Does Data Loss Happen on Compact Flash Card?

• Interruptions during file transfer: While transferring photos or other files from Compact Flash card to the system, interruptions like sudden system shutdown or abrupt ejection of CF card from system corrupts the card which results in loss of data from it.
• Accidental deletion: There are times when you accidentally delete important photos, videos, music files or other data from CF card. Files deleted from memory cards bypass Recycle Bin.
• Photo deletion on camera: While viewing photos or videos on camera, accidentally pressing 'Delete All' button deletes the pictures and video files from it.
• CF card corruption: Compact Flash card might get corrupted due to file system damage, abrupt removal of the card, improper usage etc. which makes it inaccessible.
• Accidental format: If you accidentally format your CF card upon receiving an error that prompts you to format the drive

These are some of the common data loss scenarios that you may encounter with CF card. In all such instances, Remo Recover software comes in handy to recover data from Compact Flash Card.

Beneficial Tips to avoid data loss from CF card

1. Make sure that you do not use the card after files are deleted or lost from it. Doing so will overwrite those lost files, making CF card recovery a difficult task and sometimes even impossible.

2. In case, Windows prompts you to format the CF Card when you try to access it, then do not format it. First recover files from CF card using Remo Recover and then format it.