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Using the following software you can recover deleted file from memory cards, C & D drives, USB Drives etc,,,

If you can do it then so can others,!!

Recover deleted photos
How to recover your data.
By Andy Walker (call4help.ca)

When a photo is deleted from a data card from a camera two things happen.

Inside the file allocation table, the allocation chain which stores the location of the beginning of the photo data on the card as well as the end and everything in betwnee gets zeroed out. That address is destroyed.

Also, the name of the file in the directory listing gets modified s that the first character of the file name is overwritten with a marker that show it has been deleted.

So if the file was called
andy

it would be written in hexidecimal langauge as
0x616e6479

But when the file is marked as deleted, the "a" which is marked as 61 in hex is replaced with the hex code e5 so the file appears as
0xe56e6479

You can use any undelete program to look for the data and recover it under one condition that space where the "deleted" file is not used to write more data.

So don't take pictures with the camera if you need to undelete some data as the new picture will over write the old deleted file data.

On the show I demoed the freeware Restoration: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/restoration.html