How Do I Recover JPEG Photos on Windows? Here Is a Guide

JPEG Picture Loss!!!

Need Help! I took a lot of JPEG photos. However, I deleted them by mistake. Now, what should I do? Can I recover deleted photos? What’s more, is it possible to carry out JPEG recovery without affecting the original data?

Now, in today’s post, I am going to show you how to quickly and effectively recover JPEG photos.

JPEG, short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, is a format supporting compressed bitmap of 8-bit and 24-bit color, a very popular graphic file format and suitable for transmission on the internet and its suffix name is “.jpg” or “.jpeg”. For users who like to shoot, pictures with this JPEG format are common. No matter whether shot with a cell phone or camera, the picture is in JPEG format generally.

Along with the widespread of JPEG pictures, the phenomenon of JPEG picture losses takes place more and more frequently, and JPEG photo loss is inevitable. No matter in a cell phone, digital camera, or computer, many factors will lead to JPEG picture losses. After this situation occurs, every user has the yearning to recover lost JPEG pictures, but most users don’t know how to perform JPEG recovery. Actually, along with the constant development of the software industry, JPEG recovery is easy to realize as long as we turn to data recovery companies or data recovery software.

JPEG Recovery Solutions

Data Recovery Companies

If you are busy and have lots of work to do, you can ask data recovery companies for help. Turning to data recovery companies is indeed an effective method for lost JPEG recovery. However, you have to pay high recovery fees and bear the risk of leaking privacy in the process of file recovery.

JPEG Recovery Software

If you don’t want to spend a lot of money recovering pictures, you can try turning to a piece of professional data recovery software supporting JPEG pictures. Additionally, when choosing JPEG photo recovery software, you should also consider those aspects, including data security, software compatibility of files and devices, data recovery efficiency, quality-price ratio, and more.

Since there are numerous photo recovery software on the market, you should choose one that suits your situation best. I’d like to recommend MiniTool Power Data Recovery to you. This is an easy-to-use as well as read-only tool that assists you in restoring lost photos without affecting the original data. What’s more, this simple and professional JPEG recovery software can recover photos from many storage devices including computer hard drives, memory cards, USB flash drives, and so on. For instance, you can read our previous post “How To Recover Deleted Photos From SD Card Quickly” to learn more information about this professional data recovery software as well as its powerful functions.

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If you still have some doubts about the powerful functions of MiniTool Power Data Recovery, let’s see how to recover JPEG pictures with this professional data recovery software.

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How Do I Recover JPEG Photo without Damaging Original Data

At the beginning, you need to download and install MiniTool Power Data Recovery on your computer. If you want to recover lost JPEG photos from external devices, you should connect the device to your computer and then launch the software to enter the main interface.

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Now, you can choose the partition where the lost JPEG photos were saved and click the Scan button to start scanning.

If you remember the specific location of your lost JPEG photos, you can also choose to scan the specific location, such as Desktop, Recycle Bin, or a certain folder from the bottom section.

Depending on the data capacity of the partition and the number of files, the scan duration varies. Please wait patiently until the scan process completes for the best data recovery result. On the result page, all the found files are listed by their paths. You can expand the corresponding folders layer by layer to find the target files.

To enhance data recovery efficiency, MiniTool Power Data Recovery provides you with several functions:

• Type: As you may find various types of files on the result page, you can change to the Type tab to check files by their types and file formats. For instance, here you need to find the JPEG photos. You can expand the Picture option and find the JPEG file format choice. All the found JPEG photos are listed here.
• Filter: Click on the Filter button to set the filter criteria, including file size, file type, file category, and file last modified date. Those filter conditions enable you to filter out unnecessary files.
• Search: If you want to find a specific file and remember its name, you can type its name into the search box and press Enter. The software will automatically find the match items for you.

After locating the possible files, you are suggested to preview them before saving them. The Preview function allows you to verify photos, videos, audio, and documents. You can click on the Preview button or double-click on the chosen file to preview it.

Once you have found the required files, add checkmarks in front of them and click on the Save button to choose a new destination. Do not save the selected pictures to the original path to prevent data from being overwritten.

As you are running MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free, there is only 1GB of free data recovery capacity. If you choose more than 1GB of files, you should update to an advanced edition to complete the JPEG photo recovery process. You can jump to this page to find the difference between several editions.

Thus, all work has been done.

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How to Carry out JPEG Recovery after Partition Loss

Sometimes, if the partition containing JPEG photos is mistakenly deleted, MiniTool Power Data Recovery also helps you retrieve lost JPEG photos from the lost partition. Here is how to complete the JPEG photo recovery.

Step 1. Connect the external device to your computer if needed. Launch the data recovery software and choose the lost partition under the Logical Drives section to scan.

Step 2. After scanning, you can locate the wanted JPEG pictures with Filter, Type, and Search features. Additionally, preview the chosen picture to verify the file content.

Step 3. Choose all needed files, and then click the Save button to store them in a safe place.

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Overview of MiniTool Power Data Recovery

See! With MiniTool Power Data Recovery, we can easily and quickly recover lost photos without bringing any damage to the original data. Apart from recovering data from the above two situations, this software also supports recovering data lost in various situations, including disk formatting, virus attacks, file system corrupts, RAW disks, and more.

MiniTool Power Data Recovery is a wise choice to recover lost data including photos (JPG/JPEG, TIFF/TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF, PSD, CRW, CR2, NEF, ORF, RAF, SR2, MRW, DCR, WMF, DNG, ERF, RAW, SWF, SVG, etc.), videos, documents, audios, and emails. In general, as long as the file loss is not caused by hardware failure, and the lost file is not overwritten by new data, we can recover them by using this professional and read-only powerful data recovery software. What’s more, this tool supports various operating systems including Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 (R2), and Windows Server 2012.

Suggestions

If you need to recover lost JPEG photos from Mac OS X, you can try Stellar Data Recovery for Mac. As a piece of fast, safe, and easy-to-use Mac data recovery software, it helps users recover files like photos, music, videos, emails, and documents from Mac or other devices with only 3 steps.

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Step 1. Choose the required file type. Here you should check Photos and click Next.

Step 2. Choose the partition where the lost JPEG photos are stored and click Scan.

Step 3. Select the target files from the result list and save the wanted items.

The free edition of Stellar Data Recovery for Mac only allows you to find and preview the found files. To recover lost JPEG photos, you should get the registered edition.

Back up JPEG Photos

Now that we have explained how to recover lost JPEG photos, the next step is to prevent this situation from happening again. Here, to achieve this aim, we recommend using MiniTool Partition Wizard to back up all needed photos and other data in advance. Thus, if our data loss is caused by various objective or subjective factors, we can easily and quickly get them back from backup files for free.

Want to know how to back up data? Now, click this post – copy disk – to know more details!

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Bottom Line

Now, it’s your turn to recover lost or deleted JPEG photos! Here, you can try MiniTool Power Data Recovery because of its high security, powerful function, and simple operations. Download the free JPEG recovery software and have a try.

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