More On About The Author Lexy spent her formative years taking a lot of photos and dreaming in technicolour. Nothing much has changed now she's covering all things photography related for CNET. You can find her hosting the weekly Pulse podcast. If you've accidentally deleted your images on your camera's memory card and thought they were lost to the vortex of time, there may be a way to retrieve them. You will need a card reader, a computer, memory card and nerves of steel. Step one: don't do anything to your memory card once you realise photos have been lost or deleted. This means, don't take any more photos on the card and remove it from the camera. Step two: fire up a software recovery suite. The software mentioned in this video is Recuva for Windows and PhotoRec for Mac . Bear in mind that there are plenty of other options out there, and you may already have one that was included with your memory card from vendors like Lexar or SanDisk . Step three: install and set up the software on your PC. The steps from now on are for using Recuva. Step four: fire up Recuva and choose what sorts of files you want to try and retrieve. In this tutorial we're looking for photos, but Recuva also gives you the option of finding a number of other file types. Click through the menu until you reach the screen telling you which location to look in. Plug your