The memory sticks like any other flash memory card, is a device used to store data on various digital devices. The memory stick was primarily developed by Sony and later improved upon by companies like Lexar and SanDisk. Besides the basic format of Memory Stick, there are variations of this device namely Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick Micro that are available in the market. Memory Stick is primarily used in majority of the Sony Digital Cameras, various mobile phones, game consoles and also in digital music players.
The memory stick is however similar in its working when compared to the other flash memory cards. Due to this reason the memory stick has all possibilities of data getting deleted or lost from them due to a number of reasons. As these flash storage devices are used in digital cameras, chances of them getting corrupted are very high resulting in loss of pictures. It is definitely possible to recover pictures that have been deleted or lost provided you take the necessary precautions and make use of a good memory stick photo recovery software.
Issues like corruption or accidental formatting of the memory stick definitely makes the data on the memory stick become inaccessible, but it does not mean that they have been deleted permanently. You can still recover data from memory stick even if it has been corrupted provided the device is being detected by your computer. You just need to download the picture recovery tool, connect the affected memory stick to your PC using a memory card reader and recover deleted pictures from the memory stick. However, you need to be careful not to save the recovered data onto the memory stick from which you are recovering the data as this would overwrite the deleted or lost data permanently.