Many of us can remember that knee-buckling feeling the day we opened the back of our film camera and saw the exposed roll of film laying across the camera's shutter. We forgot to rewind the film into the canister or it did not rewind completely, and we knew we had lost irreplaceable images. Losing images can happen with digital cameras as well. However, losing digital images may not be as fatal and final as with film cameras.

Perhaps you've lost an important photo when you accidentally deleted a photo from your memory card while the card is in the camera or you ejected your memory card before the camera has finished writing the images to the card. Sometimes images can be lost when the camera batteries run out of power during the capture process. However the images get lost, the pain is almost always the same. Like a good doctor, Lexar might be able to ease this pain and recover the images that you thought were lost forever.

When you delete a file from your memory card, the card's FAT (File Allocation Table) file is merely updated to indicate that the memory location where the "deleted" file resided is now available to receive a new photo. Think of the FAT file as a table of contents in a book. If you delete a chapter from the table of contents, it is not the same as actually removing the pages from the book itself. Like a table of contents, the FAT file is where your card keeps a record of all the files on the card and where they're located. The good news is most flash card data corruption happens to the FAT file and not to your photos.

When the FAT file is corrupted, the card may be unreadable, but your photo data is likely to still be there, snug in it's location on the card's memory chip. Even when you reformat your card you are only resetting the FAT file. So, if you reformat a memory card by mistake your photos are probably still there. If you want to recover those photos, the key is to remove the card from your camera and not shoot any more photos to that card. By shooting more photos, your camera may overwrite the new photo on top of a photo that you wanted to recover which would definitely render that photo unrecoverable.

Image Rescue was designed to help you recover your valuable images. Image Rescue works with any flash memory card by analyzing the card's memory locations to determine the location of photo data. Once Image Rescue identifies photo data it works to reassemble your photos and place them in a reserved file folder on your computer. It's that powerful and that simple! Just insert the memory card, which has the photos you want to recover, into a card reader and launch Image Rescue. You'll be presented with a simple screen that allows a number of useful actions. To recover photos just click on the "Image Recovery" button, choose your card in the pull-down menu and click "Recover Images". Although image recovery is not guaranteed, Image Rescue gives you a very good chance of finding that lost image, and saving your day.

Features

• Recovers photo, video, and audio files from any brand or type of memory card, using any card reader
• Recovers popular file formats, including JPEG, TIFF, RAW, MP4, AVI, and more
• Redesigned interface and simple recovery process
• Live online chat link to Lexar support engineers
• Includes card reformatting, secure deletion, and overall card health check features
• Works with PC or Mac