Photos are one of the best ways to keep your memories safe in the form of files. This can be done efficiently using Nikon digital camera. The Nikon digital camera provides high quality pictures as it uses flash card as the storage media and stores photos in nef file format. Nef (Nikon Electronic Format RAW Image File) is the RAW image and initially the images are stored in raw format.
Due to some circumstances this nef file format becomes inaccessible mainly due to corruption or error. Basic reasons for the corruption are virus attack, file corruption, software corruption, accidental formatting, low battery, removing memory card while it is in use, power fluctuation while transferring images. All these reasons can lead to deletion of .nef file. These can be recovered using nef file recovery software.
The first precaution which needs to be taken is to create the backup file, if you lose or delete the nef files; the backup is present so there is no need to worry.
In some cases, the nef files are lost or deleted for which you have not created the backup file. In such cases the nef files are completely lost. But in reality the photos stored in the nef format are still present in the partition table. When you delete the photo, the index of the photo present in the partition table gets deleted and the disk space is marked as available for the new data. Hence the deleted or lost photos are still available until and unless they are not over-written. You can still recover photos using the best recovery software. Once the photos are over-written it is completely erased from the partition table and cannot be retrieved.
The photos or pictures can be restored by the best recovery software. There are many software available in the market. Remo Recover (Windows) – Media edition is one of the best software available with the good capabilities to restore the deleted or lost nef file format. You need to check the quality of the software, the results, how effectiveness it is, will it restore the complete data which has been deleted or lost, etc. Once you check all these details about the software, you can go ahead to retrieve the deleted or lost nef files. You can save the recovered photos to CD/DVD or any accessible drive like USB external drives etc. The photos which are lost or deleted may be raw photos or the digital photos, with different set of signatures like jpg, jpeg, 3FR , RAW , PEF, DNG , NEF , ORF etc. Make sure the selected recovery software supports the system requirements like Operating system, RAM, Free disk space. Check all the details of the software in the particular website. Check whether the software has the demo version. Check the results from the demo version, if you are satisfied with the results, you can download the full version of the software to restore the deleted or lost nef files.