
What does that mean? Stop writing to the CF card!
In fact, when you use conventional methods to get rid of files, the data are only marked as “invisible” - waiting to be written over. However, it depends on whether the data are overwritten or not.
The data stored inside may be still intact.
The card has been infected by a virus, and the data got wiped out completely.Īre those lost files still recoverable? Yes, a simple deletion or card reformatting won’t erase the data immediately. The card is corrupted, showing weird “the disk can not be detected or formatted” error on a PC, making all photos inaccessible. Deleted some pictures while syncing data to a computer. Accidentally formatted the card in a camera. In case you are new to the data recovery world, CF card recovery refers to the procedure of recovering deleted, formatted or inaccessible files from a compact flash card which you probably use on a digital camera, usually with the use of a CF card data recovery software.Ĭommon CF card data loss scenarios include: What if CF Card is Corrupted and Unreadable?.