Best Way to Recover Mistakenly Deleted Pictures from Camera with Freeware

Question: I took a lot of photos with my Sony ILCE-6000, however my daughter deleted all photos from the DCIM folder, how to restore deleted photos from ILCE-6000?

In our daily life, we often encounter mistaken deletion problems exactly as what is listed above. Or we may accidently delete an important file from local disk in computer. Although such things make us annoyed, that is not to say there is no solution. As an old saying goes: when one door shuts, another opens. So do not panic, and read on to find out the best way.

To retrieve accidently deleted photos from digital camera or memory cards, what we need is just a piece of free but effective software. Here we'd like to recommend MiniTool Power Data Recovery. It consists of five recovery modules for certain situations to recover all your lost files, i.e. Undelete Recovery, Lost Partition Recovery, Digital Media Recovery, CD/DVD Recovery, and Damaged Partition Recovery. Undelete Recovery is such a module aiming at recovering deleted files and folders.

Why MiniTool Power Data Recovery Can Recover Deleted Files?

When a file is deleted, it is marked as deleted, but not erased immediately. As long as the disk record is not rewritten, the file is still reserved in that place. MiniTool Power Data Recovery can re-read the content of that file, and restore it to specified path. That is why MiniTool Power Data Recovery can recover deleted files. Now let's cut to the chase: how to recover deleted photos from digital camera.

Tutorial on How to Recover Deleted Photos from Camera with Freeware

Only three steps are needed by using MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

1. Download MiniTool Power Data Recovery free edition, install and launch it. Then we will see the following main interface where Undelete Recovery should be chosen.

2. Insert the memory card, refresh the drive list to find it out. Here we plug in a Kingston USB drive as a replacement of the memory card of Sony ILCE-6000. Hit Scan to go on.

3. Select the deleted photo(s)/file(s) you'd like to recover and press Save to select a destination path. Finally, click OK to execute.

This is all the information required to recover mistakenly deleted pictures from camera by using MiniTool Power Data Recovery free edition. With such powerful software, we can recover our lost photos from digital camera or memory card effortlessly. So why not try it by yourself?

Tips: If Undelete Recovery doesn't make sense, we recommend to choose Digital Media Recovery to have another try.