Tips to Solve 'E50' and 'E51' Card Errors in Canon PowerShot S400 Camera

The Canon PowerShot S400 is a popular digital camera among photo enthusiasts with features like a 4 megapixels lens, autofocus, 3x optical zoom, and several manual controls. The camera supports CF (Compact Flash) memory card to store the valuable pictures that the user captures to store long-lasting memories. But when the card fails to communicate with no clue of stored files, this can turn to be a overwhelming experience for the same user. Usually, such problems can be resolved by reformatting the CF card, but it also causes the entire photo store to delete. In such situations if user cannot access or has a suitable backup, a Digital Card Recovery Software can rescue. The further illustration shows a similar kind of issue that can occur to a Canon PowerShot S400 user.

Consider you capture some precious photographs with your Canon PowerShot S400 camera. Due to an unexpected event, you need to shutdown the camera when internally, the camera was accessing the CF card. The next time, when you turn on the camera to view and access those valuable file, you find them inaccessible with errors such as:

“E50”

Or

“E51”

Such errors indicate failure of memory card to communicate with the Canon PowerShot S400 camera. The CF card is likely to be corrupted.

Solution

You should try the following solutions to solve the given problem:

Remove the CF card and try to read it using a card reader. If it is accessible, the problem might be related to the Canon PowerShot S400 camera. You can try resetting the camera to its default settings and/or install the firmware updates.
In case even the card reader cannot access the card, you are suggested to reformat the CF card in the camera and restore from backup.

Reformatting the CF card deletes the entire files. Thus if a backup is not available, you should use a Card Recovery application. The third-party Card Recovery software are designed to run specific scanning algorithms to locate and recover lost, deleted or missing digital files. Also, these utilities are easy to use with an interactive interface.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced utility that can recover lost photos, audios, and videos from a variety of digital media including memory cards, hard drives, and cameras. The Digital Camera Data Recovery is available for both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. The tool supports almost all digital file formats.