Photo recovery programs from companies such as REMO have easy to use step-by-step guides that make recovering digital photos a snap.
First select the location your image files are missing from. This will be either a location on your hard drive such as C:\Folder or an external drive like E:\USB Drive. Most likely it will be a memory card holding from 1 to 8 gigabytes. On Vista and newer based computers this will be listed as exactly that, an example would be E:\SMARTcard. Using twain software your files may even be locked away in your digital camera’s internal storage. Wherever the lost files are hiding your software will be able to scan for them and present them for preview.
The next step to recover photos is to sort through the files the software has found. This can be done by simply examining the file names or using the visual preview mode on the REMO program.