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Secure Solution to Wipe Digital Camera

First of all, you should know that deletion or format can’t permanently erase photos from digital camera. With the help of data recovery software, everybody can easily recover deleted or formatted data from an erased digital camera. When you delete photos or format camera card, the photos are not lost forever. The photos just are hidden and can be recovered by data recovery software or service before they are overwritten by new photos. It seems you have emptied the digital camera by deletion or format, but the photos are still stored on the device.

For permanent data erasure purpose, you’d better use a third-party data erasure software tool. DoYourData Super Eraser provides the best & securest data erasure solution to permanently destroy and erase data on hard drive or storage media. It can help you permanently eraser photos from digital camera. After wiping digital camera with Super Eraser, the photos will be lost permanently and can’t be recovered by any data recovery software. Super Eraser will destroy the photos and overwrite the disk space of the photos to make them erased forever.

You don’t have to erase the entire camera card when you only want to erase specific photos. Just select the photos you want to erase, DoYourData Super Eraser will help you wipe them with no chance of data recovery.

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In the following situations, you should permanently erase photos on your digital camera or camera card storage:

1. When you are going to throw out the old/damaged digital camera or SD/Memory card.

Anybody can easily restore lost files with data recovery software from your discarded digital device or storage media. When you throw your old or damaged digital camera into a trash, it is very dangerous for your privacy. So it is recommended to permanently erase all the photos from your digital camera or camera card before tossing it to the garbage.

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2. Before you resell/recycle/lend your digital camera.

Normally, when we resell or lend our device to other people, we will delete or cut out all the data on the device. But as I said above, those operations can’t make data permanently lost from your device. The secure method is erasing it with Super Eraser to make the data impossible to be recovered.

3. When you share a camera with other people.

When you share a camera with other people or borrow a camera from others, you’d better erase your private photos rather than just cut them from the digital camera.

Why DoYourData Super Eraser can permanently erase your data from digital camera? The reason is not complicated. With advanced technology, Super Eraser will destroy the photos data and overwrite the disk space of the erased photos to make them permanently lost. It is safe for you to permanently erase photos from digital camera or other storage media.

After you wipe digital camera data with Super Eraser, the data is impossible to recover, even with the most powerful data recovery software (like Do Your Data Recovery Professional). So please back up your photos before erasing them from your digital camera.

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Written & Updated by Shirly Chen

Shirly Chen has been writing data recovery, data erasure articles for DoYourData over 4 years. She has been working as a professional website content writer & editor for quite a long time. She also writes articles about disk clone, Mac optimization, disk backup, etc.

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