How to recover photos after cleaning SD, MicroSD, CF memory cards?

Hetman Photo Recovery offers two types of analysis:

• Quick Scan (recommended). This is the fastest way to undelete a bunch of pictures from healthy media. Recovers every little detail including file names and folder structure.
• Full Analysis. This slow, thorough analysis can recover images located on formatted, corrupted and unreadable media. Slow but reliable, this method will not recover the original file names or folder structure for some files. No real drawbacks except speed – in this mode, the tool will recover everything from everywhere, but will take a little more time from start to finish.

Filtering

The interface allows you hiding unwanted files by specifying a filter. You can filter what’s shown on the screen by specifying approximate size, time and name of the files.

After the tool finishes scanning the disk, you’ll see a thumbnail gallery of recoverable pictures – just like if you were using Windows Explorer. Double-click on an image to open a full-size preview.

Previewing the Images

Pre-recovery preview is a great way of choosing which images you’d like to recover. If you can see a preview, the image is definitely recoverable.

When using full-size preview, you can zoom and rotate images. The tool offers a variety of views including Icons, List, Large Icons and Thumbnails.

You can recover multiple photos at once. Select multiple images by using one of the following commands: Select All, Deselect, Invert Selection.

Filtering

Filtering helps you locating files easier by hiding files that don’t match your criteria. You can filter files by file names, date and time, file size or image resolution. When a filter is applied, the tool will only display images that match your criteria. You can quickly revert to full unfiltered view by clearing the filter.

Hetman Photo Recovery offers multiple sorting modes, allowing you to sort the files by their name, type, status, size and resolution. You can also disable sorting, which will result in images being displayed in the order they’ve been discovered.

Hetman Partition Recovery allows saving recoverable pictures onto a separate disk, uploading to a remote location over the FTP protocol, burning a bunch of CD/DVD discs or creating burnable ISO images.

Saving to a Disk

Saving the files onto a disk is the fastest and easiest way to go – if you have enough disk space available. Remember, you can’t just save your images onto the same disk they’re being recovered from – this way you’ll be risking in losing the rest of them forever. You must use a separate drive letter, a different memory card or another storage device to save the files to.

Hetman Photo Recovery can preserve the original folder structure and replace unknown characters in the files’ names with something legible by clicking the corresponding check boxes.

Click “Finish” to complete the process.

Creating ISO Images

Instead of burning a CD or DVD right away, you can create a bunch of burnable ISO images. Specify volume label, file system and file name to create an ISO image. You can use any software supporting the ISO format to access or burn these images.

Click “Create” to complete the process.

Using FTP Upload

Hetman Photo Recovery comes with an integrated FTP client allowing you to upload files being recovered directly onto a remote FTP server. In order to start FTP upload specify server address, port number, as well as FTP login credentials (username and password). Hetman Photo Recovery supports FTP proxies.

Click “Save” to start uploading files.