A strange incidence happened, after I participated in the Halloween party, last October. Halloween party photos are very close to my heart, as it revives those wonderful moments with all the varieties of costume designs worn and displayed in the party. It is always such a pleasure to watch these photos, at a later point in time. So, I saved these photos in my laptop.

I got the fright of my life, when all of a sudden, somewhere late in the month of December, I opened my laptop, and I saw all these photos, not existing anymore on my laptop. I started frantically to search for a solution to get back the lost pictures,which would have recovered these precious and cherished photos.

In this direction, I started asking my friends and found that it is not such a hopeless situation. We do have the means to recover deleted pictures from the laptop. My friend also warned me that I must not use the laptop or overwrite anything on the device. I really wondered why. But, the reason I found later.

One thing, I remembered was that I had deleted these photos, quite accidentally, while deleting some other unwanted photos. My desperation led me to find out, what were the reasons for which this type of a data loss situation arises. After, an extensive research on the internet, I found the following reasons for such a data loss for the photos.

The three main reasons for loss of data are:

Accidentally Deleted Data

Data loss due to some accidental factors, like the loss of crucial Halloween Pictures is quite common. While removing the useless or the unwanted photos, the useful photos were also deleted. The undoing of the deleting option is not possible, if these are removed permanently.

Loss of Partition

The lost photos were in one of the partitions and that partition fails to show in My Computer. The same partition becomes visible in the Computer Management option. The inaccessibility caused to the partition may be due to some type of data corruption.

 Failure of the Drive

The Laptops have a huge amount of storage spaces -in the form of SSDs or the HDDs. Some fatal threats can corrupt these drives and make them inaccessible, and this often happens without any sort of pre-failure notification. This will cause huge loss of resources and data from the hard disk.

The SSDs are also prone to such photo loss scenario, due to their limited lifetime.

While trying to find a solution to get back lost pictures, I came to understand that the laptops are portable devices and are very prone to photo loss situations, due to physical damages or data integrity issues. The reasons for lost photos are similar to that caused in other devices, but the laptops are more sensitive to any form of corruption.

So, I needed to find the solution for this problem and that was using professional Photo Recovery software.  The lost data can be recovered up to a level of 100 %, with reliable software being used to recover the deleted pictures from the laptop.

These software are empowered with a scanning algorithm, for the lost or the deleted photos, from a selected region of the hard drive. The recovered files are checked for a unique presence in the address table. If it has not any entry in the address table, then it is being marked as “deleted “.

A preview of the recovered files, often available in the software could make me decide, which of the photos required recovery.

The Save option allowed to save the recovered files in a specified location, saving me valuable time. This also led to saving the system resources.

These recovery software are generally compatible with all the major brands of the laptop manufacturers.

Some of the software can add file headers, for the users of unique multimedia files like the audio, video or the photo files. They can also recover from the memory cards and the digital cameras. They can also scan storage devices over a capacity of 2 TB.

While researching, I also came to know that not all the situations of photo loss can be handled by the use of the commercial Photo Recovery software. The odds of such Recovery operations are dependent heavily on such factors like defragmentation of the hard drive after the photos were lost.

After, I went through the various options available for Recovery of such photos, if lost or deleted, for whatever reasons, eventually I tried to find out a solution when, for averting such a situation. I got hold of some nice preventive tips. As we all know, that the laptops are the obvious choices for many, in today’s world. But, the prevention of such photo loss situations can be obtained with the help of adopting a strong backup technique. A manual backup or any other form of backup software can serve the purpose.

Let me also share, some other tips that I obtained from my internet research.

• The photos are to be  duplicated in more than one storage device
• Anti-virus software is used for keeping the laptop free from any viruses
• The laptop must not be used or overwritten, after such a photo loss scenario
• Other advice are, not to move and save large sized files or use any defragmentation or disk optimization software, in such a photo loss scenario