How to recover erased files from CF card (Compact Flash Card)

10:53 AM 7/15/2015

What's a Compact Flash memory card?

CompactFlash (CF) Card is a mass storage device format used in portable electronic devices. It has a larger size when compared with other memory card types such as SD, SmartMedia, MemoryStick, and xD Picture Card. So it's popular used in variety of portable electronic equipments, such as DSLRs, digital cameras, camcorders, game devices, mp3 players, etc. to store photos, videos, audio multimedia files, office documents such as Microsoft Word docx files, Powerpoint Presentation ppt files, Microsoft Excel files, pdf, and folders.

How to recover deleted, formatted or lost files from CF Card

You may have lost your vital photos, videos and audio files from a CF card due to many reasons:

- press format button on camera wrongly
- delete wrong files accidentally
- memory card asks to format and warning said that data will be erased
- memory card not detected

So the question is....can I somehow recover or restore deleted images and other files off the compact flash card? The answer is YES. Read on for how to recover pictures, videos and other files from memory card.

Step 1: Download and install CF Card recovery software

Asoftech Data Recovery is a fast and safe solution for your lost images, photographs, digital clippings from your Compact Flash card. The Card Recovery software provide easy and quick data recovery solutions to recover deleted, reformatted and damaged photos and movies from Compact Flash Card. It supports all CompactFlash card brands including SanDisk, Kingston, KingMax, Samsung, Canon etc. Each CF Card manufacturer may have different series.

download Card Recovery software to recover to recover picture and video files

Step 2: Connect your CF card to PC

You can connect the CF card to computer with a card reader. After you connect the CF card to computer, check the drive letter assigned to memory card (e.g. E: ). If it is not detected by comptuer, go to device manager, and then assign a drive letter to the card.

Step 3: Scan memory card to look for recoverable files

Launch Asoftech Data Recovery, and in Asoftech Data Recovery, select CF card to recover files from and click "Next" to start searching, and then you will see a list of recoverable photos, videos and other files

Step 4. Recover CF card

After the complete scan, all the files found back are well listed in the scan result panel. Check the audio, video and photo files to be recovered, and then hit "Recover" to restore all lost items back.

Using Asoftech Data Recovery is safe because it performs read-only operations on your source card and it saves the recovered files to a destination folder you specify.

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