A Compact Flash (CF) card is a popular memory card that uses
the flash memory to store data on a very small card. A Compact Flash card makes
data easy to add to a variety of computing devices, such as digital cameras and
music players, personal digital assistants (PDAs), desktop computers, , digital
audio recorders, and photo printers. It is a popular card for use with personal
digital assistants and digital cameras.
CF cards have solid-state construction, that makes them rugged and most
traditional storage devices. There are two main subdivisions of CF cards, Type
I (3.3 mm thick) and the thicker Type II (CF2) cards (5 mm thick).
They are used in digital cameras to store large amount of photos and video
files.
Sometimes, you may delete your photos accidentally, due to which you may lose your valuable photos from the camera. You can also use the CF card on the computer to transfer files from the computer and delete some files using “shift + delete” key combination. But files are not deleted permanently, instead only their file pointers are removed due to which they are not available for further use. In these cases, you don’t have to worry, and you can use CF card recovery software and get back the lost photos from CF card in a fraction of time. At the time of accessing your CF card, you may find an error message that asks you to format the CF card. Whenever you format your card, the files present on it will gets deleted.
Some of the data loss scenarios are mentioned below:
· 1. Improper removal : if you are unplugging the CF card without using the “safe remove” wizard, then it may lead to loss of data and card will become unreadable.
· 2. Corruption : any corruption or damage in CF card will lead to inaccessible files. So, again loss of data. This may be due to improper shutdown of the computer or virus attack.
· 3.CF card format : sometimes, you may need to format your CF card to make it accessible after getting corrupt. Thus, data present on it may be lost.
So, it is always recommended by the recovery experts to use a proper file recovery software in order to get back your data from CF card. You can download the software for restoring the deleted and lost files from CF card. It can retrieve different types of files including documents, photos, spreadsheets ,music and video files that get deleted from the corrupted/damaged CF card due to many reasons. It also supports various types of memory cards like SD card, XD-picture card, MMC, memory sticks & CF card. Using this software, you can also recover the hard drive when it gets crashed or become unreadable. It can restore the files from FAT16, FAT32, ExtFAT, NTFS & NTFS5 formatted partitions/volumes on the hard drive. This software can restore deleted files on Windows XP, 2003, 2008, Vista & Windows 7 operating systems; it is also compatible with Mac OS X.