How to Recover Photos/Videos from Canon Camera Memory Card

"Canon camera memory card was accidentally formatted. Is there any way for me to restore photos from Canon camera or Canon camera card recovery? I want to have a try. It is painful to lose my data." - by Sandy

It is a disaster for people who lost important photos and videos from Canon cameras. However, you have to face the fact that you really lost them due to all kinds of reasons. And the make up way is to find a Canon camera memory card recovery software tool for help. It might help you find videos and photos from Canon camera memory card on Windows or Mac.

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Part 1. Overview of the Best Canon Camera Memory Card Recovery Software

Part 2. A foolproof Steps to Retrieve Photos and Videos from Canon Memory Card

Overview of the Best Canon Camera Memory Card Recovery Software

Among the Canon data recovery software tools, I’d like to recommend you iBeesoft Data Recovery. It allows you to recover photos and videos from Canon SD memory card easily and effectively. Here are the reasons why I recommend it to you.

#1. The Canon camera card recovery software supports data lost in all kinds of scenarios.

• Photos and videos lost due to Canon memory card format.
• Accidently deleted Canon camera data.
• Photos and videos are deleted by other people intentionally.
• Memory errors cause all photos and videos lost.
• Setting your camera to factory settings result in all data lost.

#2.The data recovery software for Canon camera memory card supports photos and videos in all the commonly used formats.

• Supported video formats are: Such as AVI, MOV, MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, MKV, ASF, FLV, SWF, MPG, RM/RMVB, MPEG etc.
• Supported photo formats are: NEF, CRW, CR2, ORF, SR2, SRF, K25, KDC, DCR, RAF, MRW, PEF, X3F, JPEG, JPG, TIFF, TIF, BMP, GIF, PNG, XCF, PAT, ARW, DNG, PSP, PCT, RAW, MOS, PSD, EPS, INDD, ERF, FH3, FH5, FH7, FH8 FH9, FH11, MCD, VWX, MEF, WP, CDR, CPT, VSD, DWG, PGM, PPM, PCX, MNG, MSP, WMF, WPG, EMF, ANI, NRW, TGA, JP2 etc.

Part 2. A foolproof Steps to Retrieve Photos and Videos from Canon Memory Card

All you need is to run the Canon camera memory card recovery software on your computer, connect your Canon memory card with computer, letting the software scan for deleted, lost or formatted photos, videos and more. Select need files for recovery.

Download the Canon memory card recovery software to have a try now! Here in the following are the simple step-by-step guide for how to get back files from Canon memory card.

How to Recover Deleted Files from Canon Camera Memory Card

1. Get iBeesoft Data Recovery on your PC
2. Connect Canon memory card with the computer

Use a USB cable to connect your Canon camera with your computer or remove the memory card from the device, and connect it with your Mac or PC via an e-card reader. Make sure your computer can detect it as an external hard drive.

Note: my suggestion is that you’d better connect the Canon memory card to your computer via an e-card reader. It will reduce the chance to get lost data overwritten permanently. You know, you need to keep your device standstill until you perform the Canon camera card recovery. Otherwise, you’ll fail to recover any wanted data. In this case, if you need the memory card on Canon camera, any further operation on the computer will cause data lost forever.

3. Select the Canon memory card to scan

The next window shows you all the partitions of the computer as well as external hard drives. You need to select the one that stands for your Canon memory card. Next, click "Scan" to find and recover files from Canon camera memory card.

4. Canon memory card recovery

It might takes longer for the Canon memory card recovery software to scan for the lost photos and videos if you have deleted many files. Don’t worry! It’s a great news for the software to find more for you. You can keep the software scanning the Canon memory card on the background and do your other task. When it finished, you can select files to preview and click "Recover" to save wanted ones.