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Have you ever accidentally deleted a photo from your digital camera before you had a chance to download it to your PC? I have. I looked for a recycle bin on my camera to see if I could recover from a recycle bin but there was no recycle bin on the SD card. Don’t despair! There are ways to recover deleted photos from a memory card. But most of them are not free. You need to shell out at least $20 to use the service/software. There is a free one, though. So, the option I recommend is to use PC Inspector Smart Recovery. I tried it and It worked fine. So, here are the steps you need to follow.

• Download PC Inspector Smart Recovery and install it.
• If your computer has a memory card slot, insert the memory card in it. If your PC doesn’t have the slot, connect the digital camera to the PC with a cable.
• Start the PC Inspector Smart Recovery.
• Select the drive to recover the photo(s). This is usually E: or F:.
• Select the folder on your computer where you want to store the recovered photo(s).
• Click “start,” then the program starts to scan the memory card. The result window will show all the pictures you ever deleted. You can pick the ones you want to recover.

Since the program scans the card sector by sector, it may take a long time to finish scanning. I did it for a 2 GB card, and it took about 2 hours to complete the scan. But it’s worth the wait.