Introduction

When we talk about photos in digital form, we are largely talking about those that are in JPG format. JPGs are the most commonly used image format in digital cameras, phones and other devices for capturing images. This format is also the most popular format for storing and transmitting photographic images on the Internet. In addition to JPGs, RAW photos are also important when it comes to photos. You can read about how to recover RAW photos in a separate article, but here we will focus on JPG photos. While data recovery often takes place at the file system level and it is not important in this case to worry about what format we are recovering and whether it is supported at the level of its signatures, it is the additional format support consisting in its analysis that is sometimes crucial to recover the data at all or restore it at least to some extent. StrongRecovery is a program that recovers data based on the file system and additional format analyses (including JPG). This is very, very important when it comes to photos and JPG files themselves, because these are popular files, and the need to recover them is often huge, therefore carrying the possibility of incurring additional costs, especially since these photos may constitute evidence in some important case or were our work and due to their loss, we face financial loss.

Is photo recovery so difficult? Do you always have to incur high costs because of this? It turns out that it is not necessarily so! StrongRecovery data recovery software can be a simple and effective way to recover your photos. It is an easy-to-use and widely available tool that supports various, comprehensive photo recovery mechanisms, thanks to which you can recover them in an easy, fast and enjoyable way!

Sudden loss of photos does not have to mean that it is time to say goodbye to them!

Before you start recovering photos, follow these rules:

1. The most important thing is that after losing photos you don't overwrite them, i.e. you don't save anything to the disk, don't format it, don't modify files on it
2. It is important to recover all important photos to a different place than the one from which they were lost. Photos should be checked (opened) and only then you can freely use the disk). It is also important to see their preview in the program
3. If photos have been lost on Desktop / My Documents, i.e. on the system drive (drive C), you should make sure that no data is saved to this drive in any way - we are talking here mainly about indirect saving (one that occurs passively), more on this topic in the article: Data Recovery from Drive C
4. Remember that you can always download the trial version of the StrongRecovery to see what the situation is and recover a few photos for testing!

With StrongRecovery you can recover your photos in a few simple steps. It is an easy-to-use and effective program for recovering photos, documents and other files...

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Step 1

Run StrongRecovery. Select the drive from which you want to recover photos using the starting drive selection window:

Step 2

After processing the disk header data (processing MFT/FAT) you will see a browser window. Use this window to browse directories with interesting content, you can also see interesting photos as thumbnails (menu -> view):

Step 3

Now you can select folders and photos. To recover them, use the "Recover" option from the main menu or the context menu of the file list (right mouse button). Now you will have to select the target directory for the photos that will be recovered. Select the disk where you want to dump them, remember, the disk should be designed for data dumping (without the risk of overwriting/destroying previously lost or deleted files):

Step 4

StrongRecovery also scans data for raw files - RAW (files to recover +). If the scanning process is completed or RAW files are found to a satisfactory degree (photos or other multimedia), then they can be dumped/recovered. RAW files are searched for by detecting header information (file format), this is done independently of the file system, so in the event of file system corruption or loss of file data (allocation data, name, date, attributes), it is possible to recover them.

Additional StrongRecovery Features Supporting Photo Recovery

Sometimes it happens that it is not possible to recover photos in their entirety or their header data is damaged and the files cannot be identified or are dumped as overwritten. Some photos contain thumbnails or larger photos in the form of copies in JPG format. In the event that there is no way to recover the main photo in the file, it is worth using the context menu option (option available only in the professional version) "Recover photo thumbnail (Ctrl+Alt+M)":

StrongRecovery has the ability to edit the size of the dumped file/photo (right mouse button on file -> edit file size). If the size is too small, a larger one is set from above, this is a virtual set size and only serves to inform the program how much data to dump, in this case it dumps with a reserve, i.e., if you know that the file should be about 5 MB in size, you can set 6 MB.

Sometimes we are faced with a situation where it is difficult to find the photos we are interested in. This may be due to various situations. Sometimes JPG files are located in the program differently than we would expect. The StrongRecovery file search engine comes in handy here. To easily and quickly find all the JPG files that the program was able to find, just type "*.JPG" in the upper right corner next to the magnifying glass:

Thanks to this operation we obtain all the results from all the analyses, and thanks to this we can reach the files we are looking for. The search engine can also be used to find something based on the name of the file / folder. It can also be part of the name. You can use regular expressions, such as "*","?".