In a previous post titled Memory Card I discussed some of the steps you can take to stop your cameras Memory Card failure from being too much of an issue.
No matter how hard you try there is still going to be a chance that at some point a card will fail and you will have to try and recover the photos on it. Thankfully in most cases,this is possible. I won’t go into the boring and technical details but because of the way hard drives and memory cards store data,even if you delete a file,you can recover it until something else is stored in its place. Whenever I’ve had to recover a failed card (when you’re the family & friends tech support guy it’s more often than you’d think) I’ve found one tool that has so far never let me down-Computer Accessories.

PhotoRec is a command line utility that allows you to recover files from all types of memory cards from SD and XD cards to CompactFlash,it can do them all, and the best thing is-it’s free!