Canon PowerShot Photo Recovery - Undelete Photos Video Files

If you are using Windows OS, try photo recovery tools which work under Windows 7, XP, Vista etc that can recover photos, videos and music lost from computer hard drive, digital camera (including Canon PowerShot) memory card and flash drive etc.

For Mac OS X users, then turn to Stellar Macintosh Photo Recovery - a do-it-yourself and cost-effective Mac photo recovery software for Mac users to recover lost, deleted, formatted and inaccessible photos, videos and music files. It provides complete Mac photo recovery from Mac based hard drive, iPod (except iPod Touch), USB drive, digital camera and other storage media. With easy-to-use interface, users (even a novice user) can recover photos on Mac at great ease just by few mouse clicks.

Note: Both programs recover media files (images, videos, audio etc) from not only Canon PowerShot, but also other Canon cameras (EOS, IXUS) & other camera types such as Kodak, Nikon, Sony and more.

First of all - you need to install the recovery software on your computer and then connect your Canon PowerShot memory card. If you meet memory card error problems, take the card out of your Canon PowerShot and connect it to other digital camera or mobile phone or personal computer (better via a card reader). Then see if the card is OK while in other devices.

The next step - Free download the install a Canon photo undelete app on your PC or Mac computer.

Lastly - Let the program to start a free scan. Then preview and recover the lost Canon photos.

Here are some common situations you may meet with your Cannon PowerShot. And find your precious photos or videos suddenly lost due to reasons like accidental deletion or format memory card, lost while transferred to computer and other unknown reasons. A few ones can be listed as follows.

• Accidentally deleted ALL the photos or videos instead of a couple of unwanted ones from the Canon PowerShot camera, wondering if the camera has some kind of built-in recycle bin, or something. And how to recover deleted photos from Canon PowerShot?


• Took several photos while Canon PowerShot camera was flashing a low battery symbol. Then got a "Memory Card Error" message. Now can't get to the several hundred photos that are on the card. Is there any way to recover the inaccessible photos from Canon PowerShot memory card?


• While transferring photos and videos from Canon PowerShot to the computer, strangely some photos and videos failed to be transferred. And those lost items can't be found either from the camera or the computer. Possible to recover lost photos from Canon PowerShot camera or the computer?


• Memory card errors with Canon PowerShot camera like 'Card not initialized', 'the The card not formatted', 'Card may be damaged, please insert another card'.

No matter what kind of situations you suffer with your Canon PowerShot camera, it is recommended to take the memory card (or memory stick, external hard drive etc) out of the device as soon as possible. Why? Because all your media files (photos, video chips etc) you take are all stored on this tiny piece of stuff. You must do your best to protect it from either physical damage (such as fall onto the ground or hit hard things etc), or data overwritten which means you should stop immediately taking more images or videos or saving other files to the external memory card. Also remember:

Do not take more photos or videos when you make the mistake and lost photos.
Do not install the Canon unerase application on the drive your camera memory card stands for.
Do not save recovered images back to your Canon memory cards.