During hard disk partitioning, separate partition drives are dedicated just to store digital media files such as images, music and videos. Users also transfer images and videos to computer’s hard disk from the memory cards of their digital cameras and camcorders. Thus, when the partition drives get damaged or the system’s hard disk goes corrupt all the stored digital media files either become inaccessible or permanently lost. Even hard disk formatting, MBR and registry corruption and media contamination leads to loss of image files. In such cases, software to repair damaged hard disk that would facilitate digital photo recovery must be employed. Kernel for Windows Data Recovery tool is an efficient software that can repair corrupt partitions and storage devices running on Windows OS. This software can further double up as a photo recovery tool to recover lost image files and digital photos stored in damaged disk drives. With the help of this tool, users can recover images, digital pictures and other types of media files that get accidentally deleted, corrupt or lost because of hard disk corruption, medial corruption and media formatting or due to errors like unrecognized media. Using this tool, users can also extract media files from devices such as digital cameras or camcorders that are attached to the computer. Therefore, this software also works as a camera recovery tool since, corrupt SD cards or memory cards that become inaccessible due to errors in Windows Viewer can also be fixed. Kernel for Windows Data Recovery comes integrated with three advanced scanning modes, viz., Quick Scan, Extensive Scan and File Trace, with which every local drive, corrupt partitions, sectors and indexes can be checked to recover deleted or damaged media files. With the embedded “Find File” and “File Filter” options, users can specifically look for image file saved with different formats including JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, GIF, GIFF, PCX, MPEG and MPG.