FlashPhoenix Photo Recovery

FlashPoenix Photo Recovery is a tool that was designed for people with an interest in photography. It can be said that it's a must-have for photographers as the process of image recovery is oversimplified; several clicks are enough for an entire storage device to be scanned and its content saved.

The interface isn't complicated at all; every setting and option is displayed directly in the main window. The first step to launch a recovery session is selecting the drive that needs scanning. All available drives will be listed in the "Select Drive" tab and, after selecting the one you want to work with, one click can start the scanning process.

While a drive is being scanned, the lost photos are displayed as thumbnail for a quick preview. Several images can be displayed at once, making even the greater storage environments eligible to recovery. After the scanning is complete, the images are check-marked and ready to save. If you don't want to save all the identified photos, simply uncheck them and proceed to select the destination folder.

Alltough it's a fairly compact app, besides digital camera drives, FlashPhoenix Photo Recovery can read most flash drives on the market, for example: SmartMedia, CF CompactFlash, Sony Memory Stick, MicroDrive, D Picture Card Flash Card, PC Card, Multimedia Card, Secure Digital Card and many others.

To sum it up, FlashPhoenix Photo Recovery can can grow on you quickly thanks to the ease of the recovery process and also the sleek interface. Covering a wide variety of flash drives and having the ability to recover photos from corrupted environments is totally a plus. A setback is the lack of an exit warning pop-up. If the app is closed by mistake, the progress will be lost. This can be unpleasant with larger storage media, since the scan time is proportional with storage space. Despite of the issues presented above, the tool is still a great choice for hobby photographers.