Follow This To Start Olympus File Recovery Without Delay

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a dilemma – urgently needed files are missing for unknown reasons? Maybe you can only blame yourself for making a mistake in leading to the loss of significant files, maybe you do not have a clue how the files get lost; either way, the most important thing to do in the first place is starting to perform data recovery with the help of professionals or wonderful assistant tool.



Olympus, which is believed to occupy the leading position in the field of precision instrument and optical technology, is famous around the world mainly for its voice recorder and digital camera. Succeeding in developing and releasing different kinds of digital products, Olympus owns countless users. Since two of its most popular products are Olympus digital voice recorder and Olympus digital camera, you can easily find plenty of questions related to Olympus file recovery on the internet (in a forum, on a certain website or on different BBS).

Specific Case of Olympus File Recovery

For instance, there’s a particular case in which the user hopes to recover deleted files from Olympus digital voice recorder:

“I accidentally deleted several files from my Olympus VN-4100 handheld digital voice recorder. And have so many precious audio chips insides. Please let me know what needs to be done in order to get these files restored. I am willing to destroy the recorder to retrieve the lost data.” – Nick.

In this case, users usually don’t need to and can’t destroy the recorder. The reason why we said this is based on two facts: 1. the real content of files deleted from Olympus handheld digital voice recorder will not be removed in the real sense until new data are saved to the same location to overwrite it and on the contrary, the files can be restored completely if users have a wonderful recovery tool; 2. any operations (like formatting and scratching) that would destroy the Olympus recorder will bring secondary damage to deleted data.

Taking those into consideration, we advise users to put aside all tasks at hand (saving all pending documents and close all unnecessary programs), and then start Olympus recorder data recovery as quickly as they can. In order to help users avoid hitting a brick wall in selecting suitable voice recorder file recovery software, we decide to give our suggestion here: MiniTool Power Data Recovery.

It is a professional data recovery tool for not only Olympus recorder file recovery and Olympus photo recovery, but also data recovery on other kinds of storage devices, such as USB flash drive and mobile hard disk. Among users who have ever used this software, it enjoys a high reputation. Thus, it is believed to be a fabulous choice for Olympus data recovery.

As for how to recover lost data and files from Olympus voice recorder and how to recover photos from Olympus digital camera, we’ll provide corresponding guide later in this article. But firstly, we’d like to focus on introducing Olympus and its products to users in brief.

Basic Introduction to Olympus and Its Main Products

When seeing or hearing of Olympus, some users may be wondering what exactly it is since it is not as well-known as Sony and Canon. In view of this, we see the necessity of introducing basic knowledge of Olympus. After reading, users may go from “zero” to “hero”. Now, let’s dive right in finding out what Olympus really is.



According to historical data, Olympus was founded in 1919. One year later, in 1920, microscope has been successfully commercialized for the first time by Olympus. Afterwards, Olympus became the world’s first developer for the endoscope, which plays an extremely important role in the field of cancer prevention and control. Till now, Olympus Corporation has become one of the most representative companies for precise and optical technology in Japan, and even throughout the world. Its business scope includes three fields: medical industry, imaging industry and life science industry.

Most popular products of Olympus:

• Olympus digital voice recorder: Olympus has three famous series of voice recorder – Olympus WS Series, Olympus LS Series and Olympus DS Series.
• The new members of Olympus WS Series recorder – WS-813, WS-812 and WS-811 appeared on the market in the spring of 2012. They ensure high-quality audio recording and keep the USB line & micro SD slot design as well; they also remain the unlimited potential portability and fast application.

This series can be extended to 32GB. What’s more, the adding of new technologies, such as upgraded low-noise technology, 90-degree directional stereo microphone and calendar search function, makes operation and application ability of WS Series recorder improved greatly, so as to become a good assistant for work, study and entertainment.


• Olympus LS Series recorder is actually a high-end professional linear PCM product, which is famous for rich feature, user-friendly design and easy-to-use characteristic. This series (LS-100, LS-3, LS-11, LS-12 and LS-14) uses high-quality recording technology and support multi-track recording mode.

Meanwhile, high-end characteristics like high resistance to sound pressure, quality built-in microphone, professional recording and playback control are very attractive to those users: radio staff, musicians, vocal music enthusiasts, students who are practicing musical instruments, and so on.


• Olympus DS-55 recorder and DS-65 recorder are high-end products with excellent sound quality and high added-value. They combine high-quality audio signal, a variety of convenient operations and stylish exterior design together. The brand-new high-sensitivity detachable stereo microphone contributes a lot to the excellent recording quality.



The Olympus DS series recorder is not only a simple recording tool, but also a good assistant used in proof, interview, conference, lecture, negotiation, concert and many other occasions. Other products in this series include DS-40, DS-75 and DS-150.


• In addition, Olympus VN-712 digital voice recorder, Olympus DM-650 recorder and Olympus DM-20 recorder are not uncommon in life.

If an important voice recorder file (audio file or video file) was deleted mistakenly from Olympus digital voice recorder, users must be very worried, being afraid of losing it forever. To sum up, accidental deletion of Olympus file could be caused by mainly two reasons: one is that users press the wrong button when managing files in Olympus digital recorder and the other is users made a mistake in distinguishing the target file needing to be deleted, so they deleted a useful file instead.

No matter what the reason is, the first thing users would like to do must be finding feasible ways to recover deleted files from Olympus digital voice recorder. No one is willing to do nothing but throw in the towel. Now, please roll up your sleeves and download MiniTool Power Data Recovery to computer immediately whether you have been stuck in serious file loss already or haven’t had such experience before. Believe it or not, this must be a wonderful choice for voice recorder file recovery software, which is going to help you get out of the troublesome data loss problem.



Or all media files recorded in Olympus voice recorder will be lost if users format the memory card by mistake. In this case, recovering lost data and files from Olympus voice recorder becomes a must do. The data recovery software we recommended just now is not only able to undelete audio and video files from voice recorder device, but also capable of recovering files from memory card in the Olympus voice recorder, such as SD Card, Micro SD Card, CompactFlash CF Card and SDHC. All common formats of audio and video file, including mp3, wav, wma, mp4, wmv, rmvb, mpeg and 3gp can be fully supported by this software.


• Olympus digital camera:

Digital camera is another important type of product produced by Olympus. In 2002, the global sale of Olympus digital camera – CAMEDIA series is more than 10 million units, which fully demonstrates Olympus’ strong influence on the market.

The E-510 appeared on the market in June 2007; its body includes the so-called Image Stabilization, which is a CCD floating anti-shake mechanism driven by ultrasonic motor. Hence, Olympus becomes the third manufacturer using anti-shake countermeasure after SONY and Pentax.

Olympus cooperates with Canon in 1983. A series of video recording devices named “Olympus Video Photography” are produced by JVC and even the famous photographer Terance Donovan is hired to promote the product. The second version of that system is released in the next year, but this is Olympus’ last foray into consumer video device market until the popularity of digital camera.

As the world's giant in the field of camera, Olympus reaches a brilliant performance in 2001 – the global sale of μ series cameras is over 20 million units. Also in China, Olympus has firmly stood on the position of “the first national sales civilian camera” for eight consecutive years.


What common users are familiar with is Olympus’s digital camera. But in fact, this company has made brilliant achievements in the field of imaging solution products (such as microscopes, medical instruments, traditional cameras, digital cameras and printers) and high-tech life engineering. Swarovski special edition E-P1 and PEN E-PM1 mini camera are two famous and popular Olympus digital cameras.

If users have formatted the SD card on Olympus digital camera and lose significant photo files because they perform the formatting unintentionally or since they forget about the significant files, they must struggle to recover photos from formatted Olympus SD card. If photo files are lost due to this or other unknown reasons, they’re strongly advised to use MiniTool Power Data Recovery – the wonderful voice recorder file recovery software and photo data recovery software for both Olympus products and other data storage devices.

Other common products:

• Lens: Olympus has a history of camera and lens design. The real first innovative Olympus camera is the PEN model in 1959. It is a very compact and lightweight half-frame camera. Among which, the half-frame means 72 18 × 24mm format photos can be took on a roll of standard 36-film.

Unlike its competitors, Olympus didn’t enter the AF (Auto Focus) market, resulting in AF SLR market fall behind. Right now, Olympus has become a leader among digital camera manufacturers. It is the designer for open specification Four Thirds System and digital SLR camera. E system is made based on this specification.


• Medical facility: in 1950, Olympus was the first company to realize the practical application of gastroscopy throughout the world. Afterwards, Olympus has always focused on “peace and safety”, constantly striving to pursue new products for reducing the burden on patients and it has finally made contribution to achieving the best health care.


Olympus medical business area is committed to providing product support for the entire medical field. The products covering digestive endoscopy, surgical endoscopy, endoscopic surgical instrument, ultrasonic endoscopy, overall solution to minimally invasive surgical and business support system, which aims at improving the efficiency of medical institution. All in all, Olympus has made great achievements in improving medical technology and public health awareness.


• The following products can also be found in daily life easily: census car, gastrointestinal health network, commonweal salon, brand-new multi-photon scanning microscope, and so on.

How to Recover Files from Olympus Digital Voice Recorder

As long as the file loss on Olympus digital voice recorder is caused by soft failures, our suggestion is installing MiniTool Power Data Recovery (as we have mentioned above). Then, launch it and choose a suitable recovery module.



If the lost audio files were getting deleted accidentally by users while they are deleting some unwanted recordings from Olympus digital voice recorder, users should take out the memory card and then connect it to computer via adapter to start Olympus recorder data recovery.

After that, choose “Undelete Recovery” module to scan this memory card and then check needed files to recover lost audio files from it.

How to Recover Photos from Formatted Olympus SD Card

However, if the audio files or photos were lost from Olympus digital voice recorder because of accidental formatting or corruption of memory card, the “Damaged Partition Recovery” should be chosen instead for Olympus photo recovery.

Three steps to recover Olympus ORF photo files:
1.In order to recover photos from Olympus digital camera, users should take out the SD card from camera and then connect it to computer through data line.
2.Afterwards, click on “Damaged Partition Recovery” and select the card to scan.
3.At last, check all needed photos from scan result and press “Save” to store them to another place.

This is all we want to say about Olympus file recovery. If you still have any questions, please feel free to leave a message on our website.