Photos captured using digital cameras are usually stored on flash drives like memory cards before they are transferred onto a hard drive either for permanent storage, editing or even for sharing over the network. However, loss, deletion or corruption of photos can occur at any stage or in any device but there is a difference in each scenario. Some people are generally unclear about the three different terms that is deleted, lost and corrupted. Let us try and look at how each of these terms differs from each other with respect to data loss and in which scenarios recovery of photos is possible.
Firstly deletion of photos means that the photo is deleted with the knowledge of the user, i.e. the user accidentally deleted a file either on his hard drive or his memory card which bypassed the Recycle Bin. In such cases you can get back deleted photos easily as the location of the deleted photo is known to you and recovery is possible as the photo has not been permanently deleted. In case of loss of photo, the photo is lost i.e. the user has no idea about where the file has gone and in such scenarios too recovery is possible as lots of Digital Photo Recovery Software let the user to perform a raw search to locate the file.
However, when it comes to corruption of photos, the scenario is completely different. When a photo gets corrupted, it is not lost as a whole but only a part of the file goes missing or a part of the file is damaged. In such an instance a photo recovery software will not be of much, as the photo needs to be repaired and not recovered. Photo repairing software are hard to find and the success rate of these tools will also be very less.