Monday, April 25, 2011

Recover deleted photos from SD card

SD card is one of the best gadgets used to store digital photos. It is more secured to store digital photos and videos in comparison to other storage media. But, we should not forget the fact that the photos stored on SD card is not always safe. Many times, we deleted our important photos by mistake and later realize the importance of it. Thanks to Digital Media Software that assist camera users to recover lost photos in every situation.

Take a scenarios: You are viewing the photos of your younger brother's wedding. You want to print out of some of the photos so you are saving it in different folder so that you can copy the whole folder in pen drive. After copying the folder in Pen drive you permanently delete the main folder which consists thousands of photos.

Do not worry at all and stop using the SD card immediately. Now, search a Card Recovery Software on Internet. You may find many such kind of tool. Choose a Card Recovery tool which is read only and user-friendly. Install it on you computer system.

Now, Connect the SD card with system with the help of USB port. Run the Card Recovery program and specify the drive on which SD card is mounted for scanning. After Scanning, it will preview you the glimpse of lost photos. Select the photos from the preview list and click on Recover button for recovery.

Digital Media Recovery Software is a robust, comprehensive, read-only and user-friendly utility. It works very fine and recovers lost or deleted photos from any kind of memory card including memory sticks, DVD, hard drive, flash drive and many others storage devices. It is available in two variants: Windows and Mac.

Friday, April 8, 2011

How to recover photos from a corrupt memory card ?

Memory cards are the compact storage devices that allow data storage in portable electronic devices such as mobile phones, cameras, and other such devices. Corruption in the memory card can result in severe data loss. On such case of data loss is the loss of photos in case of corruption in the memory card of a digital camera. With an updated backup of the memory card you can recover the photos lost in a corrupt memory card. But in absence of proper backup, one can still recover the photos by the use of a card recovery software.

Consider a scenario wherein you were taking pictures with your PowerShot A510, using a SanDisk 256 MB card. You upload the photos in your computer and take further photos in your card. Every thing was fine until you switched the camera from shooting mode to the viewing mode. You could no more find your photos. Further, you find the blue screen with “Canon” written on it. The green light on the camera which is located next to the view finder blinks many times and the camera turns off. On switching it back to the shoot mode to take another image, you find the light next to the view finder flashes and the on the top of the screen you find the error message that reads “memory card error”. One moment it shows some number of photos while the other moment it shows 0 number of photos. When you go to the view mode, the screen says “No Image”.

Causes:

The above erroneous condition occurs due to the corruption in the memory card.

Resolution:

To resolve the problem, you will have to reformat the card and recover the photos from an updated backup. But in case you have not kept proper backup of your memory card, you can still recover the photos by using a card data recovery software. The recovery software implements high ended algorithm to scan the memory card and recover the lost and inaccessible data from the formatted card. The recovered data is then placed in the user defined location.