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How I Recovered Lost Photos When Digital Camera Shows 'Card Locked' Error

2011-06-24T00:28:00.000-07:00

The best feature of digital camera is that we can view the images and videos soon after capturing them. Different from the film based cameras; it uses memory card to store the captured photos and videos.

The memory card is an electronic storage devices used to store digital information. It facilitates to re-record the photos and videos over them. Sometimes, due to accidental deletion, virus infection, or improper way of handling of digital camera; makes the stored data inaccessible.

Consider a practical case. In this summer vacations, I went to my Grand Parents home with my kids. The meeting was awesome as four generations of my family were there at the same time. I captured some very pleasant memories on my digital camera. My little brat pulled out the memory card out abruptly.
After some time, when I reinserted the card and switched on the camera, following error encountered:

"Card Locked"

After this error, I was unable to access any photo from the memory card. There is nothing worse than this can happen to me as I was in deep loss of all those precious photos.
While searching for the card recovery tool, I found the causes and resolution respectively:

The reason behind this error is; Read/ Write error like:

Switching off the camera during write process or the while the camera is saving the image.
Pulling out the card without switching off the camera.
Capturing the images or videos even after the camera is indicating 'low battery'.

After researching on internet and other online blogs, I found that either my card is physically damaged (which was not applicable with my case) or it has been corrupted due to mishandling.

My card may be corrupted; so I research on various card recovery software and tested some of them which recovers lost, deleted photos from corrupt card. Finally I got my photos back using one such wonderful software called Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery.

The Software previewed all my photos and finally I purchased it only online with few bucks which are very less as compared to my precious photos.

Recover deleted photos from SD card

2011-04-25T03:45:00.001-07:00

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 Card Recovery 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.

Card Recovery Software is a robust, comprehensive, read-only and user-friendly utilities. 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.

How to recover photos from a corrupt memory card ?

2011-04-08T00:06:00.000-07:00

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.

How to recover photos from a corrupt memory card

2011-03-01T03:41:00.000-08:00

Have your memory card got corrupt? And you are looking for tools for memory card data recovery?

Suppose you are using a Kodak EasyShare C140 which is a brilliant digital camera from Kodak and is a good product. The Camera has 16 MB internal memory and supports SD memory card, SDHC memory card and many other external media storage. It exclusive comfort picture shoot facilities and capabilities for the user makes it an ideal choice for both home as well as professional photographers.

Any digital equipment is never free from corruption. The corruption in the digital camera may occur due to physical damage of the camera or due to corruption in the memory card.
While a physical damage can be resolved by replacing the damaged part with a new part in the service center, a memory card corruption demands formatting of the card.

While formatting of the card would bring back the card in the working condition, a formatted card creates a new file system and deleted the older file system permanently.This leads to inaccessibility of the photos saved in the memory card prior to format. However, you can recover the photos from an updated backup file. In absence of a proper backup, you have to fall back upon third party card recovery software to recover your photos.

Cause of Memory card corruption is as follows :

Interrupted read/write operation
Unintentional files deletion
Pulling out of the card from camera/card reader while file transfer operation is still taking place
Camera is switched off before the file is saved
Virus or malware attack

Resolution:

An error in the memory card can only be resolved by formatting the card. However, a formatted memory card creates a new file system and permanently loses the older file system. This leads to the loss of the photographs saved prior to the format operation. However, you can retrieve the data (photos) if you have a proper backup. But in case you do not have an updated backup, you can recover your data by the use of a memory card recovery software.

Photo Recovery Utility – Recover deleted, corrupted photos

2011-02-13T23:45:00.000-08:00

It's so common these days that digital photos get deleted from digital cameras either by virus attack or by accidental deletion. Such type of photo loss situation can be a disastrous one if lost photos are precious to you. We like to capture each and every special moment of our life in the form of digital photos. Photos are the reminders of these special moments since we can view these memorable moments any time in future. It's our duty to keep these photos safe since these memories can't be valued in terms of money, these are priceless. But since future is uncertain, no one knows when these priceless photos get corrupted or deleted. We must keep a proper backup of these photos so that these can be restored easily when required. But without backup, recovery is only possible with the help of photo recovery software.

These type of recovery utilities are easily available on internet. But you have to select the most appropriate one. Selection of recovery tool is not an easy task, it's quite onerous one. You might face difficulties if it doesn't meets to your requirements. So keep in mind the following points while selecting a recovery tool:

It should be compatible with your digital camera.
It should be compatible with all image formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP etc.
It should be compatible with all storage media such as hard drive, memory card, external hard drive, memory stick etc.
It should be a read only software which doesn't modify the original content.
It should be compatible with all photo loss situations.

After selecting a comprehensive recovery tool, you can start recovery after installing it on your system. It doesn't required any technical skills to run this software. It recovers the deleted files in just three simple steps: Select, Scan and Save.

Memory card Corrupted – Is there any way to Recover Deleted and Lost Photos

2011-01-25T03:46:00.000-08:00

Remember that family vacation to the Grand Canyon? Remember all those wonderful moments with your best friends and your family? Invaluable, weren’t they?

So you saved all of those moments into your digital camera, and when you decided to view them after a year, you found that you couldn't access them. You juggled around and cleaned the contacts of the memory card, hoping for a magical memory card recovery, but nothing worked.

What do you do in such a situation? For starters, don’t panic. Sometimes the memory card does become corrupt, but fortunately, there are a number of ways of getting back your valuable photographs. Remember, just because your camera can’t read the card, it doesn’t mean that the pictures have vanished.

It’s something like losing someone’s phone number; the person doesn’t stop existing just because you can’t contact him! It is still easily possible to recover your valuable photographs. If your camera is working fine, you need to get the memory card checked. If the memory card is not accessible, you can retrieve your lost data using memory card recovery software.

The most common causes for loss of photographs are:

Accidental deletion

The camera going into a power-off mode during the process of saving the photographs

Corruption of the media file system

Removal of the memory card while the camera was on

Accidental formatting of the memory card

In all these scenarios, it is still possible to get back those valuable pictures. However, the first thing to be done is to stop taking more pictures (if it is still possible!) as this may overwrite the unreachable pictures that are still stored on the memory card. Usually, the photographs remain intact on the memory card; it is only the links to the photographs that are deleted. Good third-party card recovery software can recover them all.

SD Card Recovery is Perfect Solution for Recovery

2011-01-20T03:05:00.000-08:00

An Secure Digital card is a non-volatile storage media, similar to SIM card in a mobile phone. It look like a SIM card, but compare to its size, it is much smaller than SIM card. The SD card used in various digital device such as digital camera, ipod, mobile phone, portable media player or other multimedia device which allow you to take photos, pictures, video, download music and ringtones and other multimedia file to your computer. You can store certain amount of data on your SD card and when it gets full, data can be transferred to the computer to make it usable again. Now you can share these photos with your friend or family.

But sometimes multimedia files (like audio and video songs or movie) downloaded from the internet contain virus, due to it the memory card get corrupted or damaged. So you can't access the file properly. This is extremely frustrating. This results into inaccessibility of photo or multimedia files which stored on the SD card. To overcome with this critical situation, if you have a proper back of lost photos or multimedia file on your computer then no need to worry, but if didn't have a proper back then there is chance of recovery by using third party recovery software SD card recovery software.

With the help of SD card recovery software you can easily and quickly recover your lost photo or multimedia files. This software enables the user to recover their lost photos or videos that were deleted due to any reasons like accidental deletion, file system damage of memory card, pulling out memory card during read/write process and many more.

To recover the lost photos or files, it is important to check the recovery software is compatible with the camera or not. But to select the good recovery software, you must to do proper research and follow these steps:

The software should be Non-destructive in nature
Easy to use and highly interactive user interface
Full scan for lost or deleted photos
Recover corrupted or damaged file system and
Multi file system supported

Recovery of Lost photos/Videos/Audios from Nikon Coolpix P6000

2010-12-22T01:49:00.000-08:00

Nikon Coolpix has 13.5 megapixel digital camera with an inbuild global positioning system (GPS), 4x digital zoom. With the help of GPS, you can easily share your images, photos and pictures via Nikon's ‘my Picture town’ make it one of the most advanced compact cameras on the market. And due to its attractive design with an SLR like grip make perfect handling, user friendly button layout and 2.7 inch TFT screen, its easy to use and it is perfect tool for photographers. Nikon Coolpix P600 has 48MB internal memory and supported expendable SD/MMC/SDHC memory card. Due to the large capacity of storage, it is perfect for photography and video recovering. But this type of SDHC card, through smaller in size than other SDHC cards, is prone to data loss, just like other SDHC card. But no need to worry! They are easily recoverable. The simple solution to take some precaution or use a recovery software that recovers your lost data (like photo, picture, audio and video files). For this, you definitely search some SD card recovery tool which recovers you lost or deleted photos from SDHC card.

Causes of Photo Loss:

There are lots of reason for photo loss from Nikon Coolpix P6000 digital camera but some of them are following:

Photos deleted accidentally or intentionally from SDHC cards
Suddenly shut down the camera while the photos are being stored
Clicking of photo while camera battery is low
Storage media file system damage of the card
virus infection

All the above reason show the corruption in SDHC memory card and you can't perform any operation on it and you can't access photos and pictures which are stored in SDHC memory card.

Best Way To Do:

The best way to recover lost photo and picture from the SDHC card is to use SD card recovery tool. When you search on the net you found lots of photo recovery software but choose the appropriate recovery software. While choosing the appropriate recovery software, you can consider the following points:

The software should be read only and easy to use.
It should incorporate an interactive graphical user interface (GUI).
It should recover data from all SD card brands and other memory cards

After checking all the various features then you should decide about SD card recovery tool after getting the preview of recoverable data through its demo version.

How to Recover Lost Photos From Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

2010-12-16T03:12:00.000-08:00

The high-definition smartphone, Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 comes loaded with an 8MP auto focus camera, LED flash, face and smile detection, and WVGA recording of 720p video footage at the rate of 30 frames per second. The phone not only has advanced camera features of a Sony Camera, but also clarity of images, videos and sound, that is a trademark of this brand. With 1GB internal memory, and 8GB microSD card, which can be replaced with a card of 32GB capacity, there is no dearth to the storage space for the high definition videos and images. But this type of SD card, though smaller in size than other SD cards, is prone to data loss, just like any other SD cards, and in such an event, SD card recovery becomes the need of the hour.

While one observes caution, while using such a high-end device, accidents do happen. The other day, after receiving some files via bluetooth, I realized that my phone had been acting weirdly. But, since I didn't get to use my phone much due to major workload in office, I realized after a few days that my files were not at their usual place, and while trying to start one application, another one started. This continued till the weekend, when I met my family. My brother a technology geek, took it from me to install certain games on it, and suddenly, made a loud whistling sound. On trying to use it, he also noticed the same problem, and instantly told me that there was a virus in my mobile.

I am worried, I asked him what could have happened and what could be done?

He told me, though bluetooth technology is great, it has its disadvantages. Viruses can spread instantly from one mobile to another via bluetooth, just like when an infected device is connected to a desktop, the desktop gets virus infected. The only way to get rid of this deadly virus was to format the card, as all the data was saved in it.

Once done, I realized that the pictures that I had clicked with the camera, on the eve of my being honored as 'The Most Dedicated Employee', and of my first Birthday in the office, had also been deleted.Disheartened, I went to sleep, just to find the next morning, the wonderful pictures uploaded on Picasa.

Retrieve lost photo from Nikon D300 After CF card corruption

2010-12-07T23:10:00.000-08:00

Nikon D300 has a 12.3 megapixels digital camera, DX format CMOS sensor, self cleaning sensor unit, 14 bit A/D conversion, optical image stabilized zoom, 3.0 inch LCD monitor and captured images or photos in RAW, JPEG modes. Nikon D300 digital camera give lots to experienced photographers. The camera has outstanding ability to support compact flash Type I and Type II memory cards, which means, it store data(like photos, pictures and images) up to 32 GB, which is perfect for photography and video recording.

Some common issues for CF card corruption:

Some of the error can alter the behavior of the CF cards and causes the CF card corruption. The most common causes of CF card corruption are:

CF card using with different digital camera
Turning off the camera during read/write operation
Due to virus infection
card can't be accessed error
Memory card error

All the above issues or error show the corruption in memory card and you can't perform any operation on it and you can't access the photo or pictures which are stored on the CF memory card.

Solutions:

If you have the back up of all your photos and pictures which is stored in the CF cards than you can reformat the CF card but if you didn't have the backup than you need third party recovery tool i.e Compact flash recovery. Fortunately, there are a number of photo recovery software available that recovers lost or deleted photo from different digital camera but you may choose the one which is compatible with the Nikon D300 digital camera.

Memory card recovery Tool – For recover lost photos from SDHC Memory Card

2010-11-25T22:40:00.000-08:00

If you have lost photos from SDHC cards due to file system damage, card error, corruption in SDHC card, read/write error, virus attack or event like shut down of system while transferring photos from digital camera to computer are some of the common reasons for losing of photos.

A photos not only carries our special moments of life but also carries our emotions. Losing photos of any event like marriage, wedding anniversary or vacation trip with your friends can be depressing. However, you can easily recover lost photos from SDHC card using third party recovery software i.e memory card recovery.

It is possible because when you lost photos from SDHC card, the system doesn't erase the stored photos completely. Instead, it will mark the space free. But when you capture new photos, it will stored on space marked as available for overwriting of the deleted photos.

Before using a photo recovery tool

Recovery of lost photos depend on the usage of SDHC memory card. To recover lost photos you have to follow these steps:

Stop using your SDHC memory card for further usage which will lead to overwriting of lost photos.
If you have lost photo from SDHC card, remove the card from the digital camera and store it safely till you recover the lost photos from it.

How can you perform photo recovery?

The easiest way to recover lost photos from the SDHC memory card is to use a powerful memory card recovery software which recovers lost or deleted photos by using the advance scanning and recovery algorithm. It scans your digital media i.e. SDHC card to recover lost photos. It is easy to perform memory card recovery with in few minutes. To recover lost photo from SDHC memory card you can use the following steps:

Search and download the memory card recovery software, install it on your computer
Run the software and select the media drive
Lets the software scan you SDHC memory card
Show the preview of deleted files and folder which stored earlier in SDHC memory card
Select the files you want to recover and save the files to desired location.

Memory card recovery software is not only recovers the photos from the card but also recovers audio and video files.

Stellar phoenix photo recovery software is a easy to use and powerful memory card recovery software which recovers lost, deleted photos, audio and videos files from various memory cards like SD, SDHC, MMC, MMC plus cards and many more. It also support various card brand such as Kingston, Sandisk, Kodak, Lexar, Sony and Compact flash. The software is available for both Windows and Mac operating system.

CF Card Photo Recovery software

2010-11-17T01:06:00.000-08:00

CF card or Compact Flash is a popular flash memory card. The CF memory cards are widely used in portable digital devices. It uses flash memory to store the data and is available in wide range of capacities. These flash memory card mostly used in digital media such as digital camera, mobile phones, portable media player, camcorders and other hand-held devices. The digital pictures, photos, videos and audios that you have taken using the digital camera are stored in this CF card as digital files.

However, some logical problems may make CF card inaccessible and causes serious photo loss situation. In such cases, it becomes essential to use card recovery software for extracting lost photos and files from the media.

Reasons for photo Loss:

Photo loss from CF memory card happens in situation likes:

Accidental deletion of photos from digital camera
Corruption in CF card
Read/write error
File system error
card can't be accessed error
Logical error
virus infection

Whenever your Cf card gives you any of the above error, it indicates corruption in memory card and you can't perform any operation on it. In this situation you can't access the photos which are stored on the CF card.

Recover lost photo from CF card:

There are so many way to recover deleted files or photos from corrupted Cf card. However, the best option is to use card recovery utility. To recover the lost photos from the Cf card you can use the following steps:

Search and download the CF card recovery software. install it in your PC.
Run the software and select the memory card drive.
Lets the software scan you Cf card and show the preview of photos or files which you have lost
Once the scan is completed, it will preview the list of files or folders stored earlier on your CF Card
Select the files you want to recover and save the files to desired location.

When you search on the web there are so many recovery software available on the Internet. But select those one which is compatible with your PC.

I have used Stellar phoenix photo recovery software which is powerful card recovery software which recover lost or corrupted and formatted photos, videos and audios files from corrupted CF card, SD card, SDHC card, MMC and XD cards. It is available for both Window and Mac machine.

Easily Get back lost photos from Memory card using Digital photo recovery

2010-10-31T22:01:00.000-07:00

Today we are blessed with the digital photography, a technology that made easier to capture daily moments of joy forever. The photos or pictures are very significant to the users. Generally because some of the events that happen once in the life like marriage, wedding anniversary, first baby step or a summer vacation trip with family, all are treasured events that nobody wants to lose. Capturing photos make them important to you, but it can be frustrating if you lose them.

Today digital camera stored photos on internal memory card or removable digital media like SD, SDHC, XD or MMC card. However you may lose your precious photos due to improper handling of memory cards or memory card corruption. There are several reasons for memory card corruption some of them are: pulling out memory card when the camera is on, file system corruption of storage media or due to virus infection of cards while transferring photos form camera to computer.

Due to the above situation you may get following error message :

* Memory card error

* Card can't be initialized

Resolution:

To overcome from above error message, you have to follow these steps in order to perform digital photo recovery:

* Turn of camera when you are inserting or ejecting the memory card

* Use the card reader while transferring data

* Make sure memory card is properly inserted in the card slot.

* Try to access the memory card in digital camera

* If you are unable to access, format the memory card

After formatting the memory card, all the photos stored in the memory card are erased. Thus you require a proper backup to restore all the data. If you didn't have proper backup then use third party recovery software i.e digital photo recovery software. The digital photo recovery software is designed to scan and recover lost photos safely. It can recover files of various format like JPEG, TIF, GIF, BMP, MOV, MP3, PNG etc.

This digital photo recovery software can recover digital pictures from all kind of memory cards including SD cards, MMC cards, XD cards, SDHC cards, Memory sticks and Flash cards. Along with these memory card, This digital photo recovery software can also recovers lost data from various digital cameras like Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Kodak , Fuji, Panasonic etc.

Stellar phoenix photo recovery software is most powerful digital photo recovery software recovers lost, deleted or corrupted digital photos from various memory cards. The software is available for both Windows and Mac operating system in two different version.

Tips to avoid memory card error and damage

2010-10-29T00:14:00.000-07:00

A memory card is a small electronic storage device used for storing digital data several times. They are used in electronic devices such as digital cameras, mobile phones, laptops etc. Memory cards being non-volatile in nature, retain data without power.

They are commonly used in digital cameras and can be used to transfer data to your computer. However, memory cards, just like other storage devices are vulnerable to errors and damage, sometimes requiring memory card recovery techniques.
However, one can use the following tips to avoid memory card errors and damages:

Do not remove your memory card while saving and viewing photos.
Do not remove the memory card while you turn your camera on/off.
When the camera is switched on, do not change your memory card.
Do not access the memory card when battery is low.
Using a good brand of memory card will reduce many problems.
A new memory card should be formatted even if it was preformatted. This is to make sure that the camera recognizes the files used in the memory card.
Do not use the card till the last bit of memory available. Using the card till it is completely full will sometimes pose problems with the pre-stored data in it. So leave a little space on the memory card.
Do not forget to eject the card from your system when you have finished transferring data. Even if the memory card is not being accessed by you, the computer may be accessing it and taking it out without ejecting would lead to a problem. When ejecting, system stops communicating with the card and the card will be safe. You can find the eject icon in the lower right corner of the screen.
If you need to delete all data/photos and make the card fully empty, you should rather go for formatting than deleting all data. This will reset the card and will be free from any errors that occurred during the previous usage.
A small bit of dust can cause problems with the data in the card. So keep the card in a case.
Always remove the memory card after turning off the device.
Using good quality card readers also will reduce many problems. (Using the same manufacturer for card and reader is a good option)

Sometimes, when you find that your memory card has become corrupt, it might be best to format it, and then go in for a good memory card data recovery utility.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software is a reliable memory card recovery utility that can recover lost, deleted and formatted pictures, audio files, videos and images. The memory card data recovery utility has separate versions for Windows and Mac users.

How to resolve “Memory card not recognized” error in Kodak Easyshare M1093

2010-10-19T23:54:00.000-07:00

The Kodak EasyShare M1093 features include 10.1 mega pixels with 3x optical zoom, optical image stabilization, 3-inch LCD, and a high definition movie mode. This camera is very good to capture beautiful pictures . Moreover, with the 'Share' button, you can share your pictures to various social networking sites like facebook.

The M1093 has 32 MB internal memory with an SD/SDHC cards expansion slot, which provides facilities to store hundreds of pictures. The photos/pictures saves in JPEG and EXIF format.

Although SD card is a very reliable storage device but due to some minor mistakes it can be corrupted and all your saved photos or pictures become inaccessible. To handle such situation of photos and video loss, maintain a regular backup of the photos.

Consider a practical case, You are transferring some photos from your Kodak EasyShare M1093 (which is running on low battery) camera to the computer. Suddenly, the camera turns off in between. you have to charge the batteries again, now when you restart the camera and look for the stored photos, get the following error:

“Memory card not recognized”

Due to the above error, you are unable to access the photos.

Causes:

The above error occurs due to interruption in read/write process. The interruption can occur in many cases like pulling out the card without switching off the camera, or regular clicking photos on low batteries.

Resolution:

To resolve the above cases, you can consider the following steps:

In order to access the lost photos, you can connect the memory card to a computer via card reader.
Make sure the card is properly inserted into the camera.
If you are unable to access the data than format the memory card in your digital camera and use card recovery software.

The photos from memory card is easily accessible by using a recovery software which support Kodak camera. When you search on the internet there are so many photo recovery software available but you can only select those recovery software which is compatible with your digital camera.

Download a versatile card recovery software which uses advance scanning algorithms and can recover lost photos, videos and audio files from formatted card like SD, SDHC, MMC, XD etc.

Stellar phoenix photo recovery software is such a powerful card recovery software which recovers lost, deleted and corrupted photos, audio and video file from various digital cameras including Kodak, Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Nikon,Pentax, Samsung, Olympus, etc.

The Software is available for both windows and Mac operating system. You can download the trail version of this software and preview your lost photos, audio & video files before purchasing it online.

How to fix “Memory card error” on Canon Powershot G12 digital camera

2010-09-30T04:30:00.000-07:00

Camera: Canon Powershot G12 Digital camera

Memory card: Supported SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card, Multimedia card, MMC plus card, HC MMC plus card

Specification: Canon powershot G12 have 10 megapixels digital camera with 5X optical image stabilized zoom, 2.8 inch vari-angle LCD and captured images or photos in RAW + JPEG modes, HD video recovering with stero sound. Canon Powershot G12 captures photos, images, video and allow to share priceless photos of your life. The camera support external memory card to store maximum capacity of data. It support SD/SDHC/SDXC memory card, Multimedia card, MMC plus card, HC MMC plus card.

As a practical case, you may encounter the following error while you transferring your audio, video or photo files from MMC memory card to computer:

“Memory Card Error”

The above error message appears on the SD/SDHC/SDXC cards, MMC cards and more.

Causes:

The above error message occurred due to the following reasons:

MMC card is not properly inserted in the Canon powershot G12 digital camera
Improper handling of MMC card
MMC card is corrupted

Resolution:

To solve the above problem, you have to follow these steps:

Make sure the card is properly inserted in the expansion slot.
Turn off the camera when you are inserting or ejecting the card.
Try to access the MMC card in digital camera
If you still unable to access then format the MMC card

Formatting the MMC memory card install new file system on the memory card and allow you to recover lost or corrupted photo by using card recovery software. But always remember that never use memory card for further use before using the card recovery software tool.

Card recovery tool scan the affected digital media and restore the lost or corrupted photos, pictures, audio and videos.

Stellar phoenix photo recovery is a robust card recovery software to recover lost digital data from memory card, digital camera, hard drive and external hard drive. This card recovery software support various file formats like JPEG, RAW, GIF, TIFF, PNG, MVI etc.

Resolve 'Memory card full' error in Olympus Stylus Tough-3000

2010-09-22T23:20:00.000-07:00

Olympus' range of rugged digital cameras, which are freeze proof, waterproof and shockproof, has swept the digital camera users off their feet. One of the most desirable cameras from this range is Olympus Stylus Tough -3000. It's an amazing camera which can be used to have some real fun and click thrilling images of your adventurous tasks.

Incorporating 12 megapixels, 3.6x optical zoom and 2.7 inches LCD monitor, this camera has lot to offer to photography buffs. Images can be stored on SD/SDHC cards, which are regarded as the most reliable memory cards.

Despite all such great features, you cannot vouch that you have become immune to data loss. Corruption issues might also haunt you if you do not handle camera and memory card related operations carefully. If data loss occurs due to corruption, your priority should be restoring lost images from a backup. And, if no backup is present, you must opt for using appropriate card recovery software, which supports both Olympus camera and SD cards.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you are attending a small party organized by your parents on the occasion of your birthday. Your parents hand over the Olympus digital camera to you so that you can capture the moments in the best way. While you are in the middle of clicking pictures, you are startled by the sudden occurrence of the following error message:

"Memory card full"

The error message might perturb you because as per your knowledge the memory card has enough memory to store more pictures.

Cause :

The above error message might or might not be related to the memory card. Here are the details:

The error message might occur if you are storing pictures to the camera's internal memory
If your memory card has run out of space to add more data
Or if your memory card has become corrupt

Resolution :

In order to resolve the issue with your Olympus camera and access previously saved photos, you must observe the following digital camera recovery steps:

Check if your camera settings are in place. If not, then change the settings to allow your camera to save pictures to the memory card instead of internal memory.
If memory card is actually full, then download the data to a computer and format the card.
If it is a corruption issue, search for powerful card recovery software if you do not want to loose your precious photos.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an efficient tool which assists you in recovering lost or deleted photos, and other files from a formatted storage media without any hassle. You can use this application to recover photos from a range of digital cameras including Olympus, Sony, Canon etc. This digital camera recovery application supports recovery from almost all major memory cards such as SD, MMC, CF, XD etc.

Preventive measure to recover data using card recovery

2010-09-21T04:56:00.000-07:00

We all are living in an age of technology where we use laptops, computers, digital camera, cell phones etc. that helps us store vast number of files. These files included data files, music files, video files and movies clips. To save such a large amount of information, require some additional storage in the form of memory cards. The benefit of additional storage is that you are able to store large amount of data.

The loss of any data from the memory card causes a heavy loss to us. Some of the reason of data loss in a memory card is:

- Memory card corruption

- Memory card not recognized

- Virus attack

- Logical error

To overcome with such situation either you must have proper backup or use a third party card recovery software.

Data recovery in all situations:

Memory card get corrupt in many situations including interruption in read/write operation; file system damage or virus attack. You can recover lost or deleted data like images, audios or videos etc by using card recovery utility.

Select good recovery tool:

The possibilities of successful recovery depends on how quick you act and which recovery tool you select for the recovery task. To recover data you should follow the immediate action because no tool can perform recovery if lost or deleted data gets overwritten. Selecting a good card recovery software which is compatible with your device/digital camera and have read only.

I have used powerful card recovery software known as stellar phoenix photo recovery software which recovers data from various data loss situation like corruption, accidental deletion, virus attack etc. It works on both windows and MAC machine and can recover various audio, video and image file format from memory cards, SD Cards, XD cards, SDHC card, Picture card, memory stick and many more.

How to recover accidentally deleted photos instantly from memory cards

2010-09-05T22:56:00.000-07:00

Everybody likes to take photos, pictures and make small movie clips during their vacation trip, party, marriage ceremony or get together with old friends. These are your precious moments which you kept in a special place. It may be possible that while seeing those pics in your camera they get deleted accidentally.

Card recovery software allows you to recover the photos that have deleted from the digital camera and memory cards.

It's important to know that your photos or pictures are not permanently deleted from the memory card, only deletes the file entry. But due to missing file structure assumes it be missing and there fore signifies no images. Card recovery software searches locate and extract photos, so that they can be restored and accessed. Therefore, the chances of recovering data are strong until a new file overwrites the content of the previous file.

You can recover lost or deleted photos before they get overwritten by using card recovery software.

Use Card recovery software to recover deleted photos by using these three steps:

Browse and select the media
Scan the drive
Restore the recovery data in the new location

Stellar phoenix photo recovery is robust card recovery software that recovers deleted photos from all kind of digital media like memory card, SD card, MMC, CF card etc. It support image format like Jpg, PNG, Gif, Tiff, Bmp etc. The software is available for both windows and Mac operating system.

Recover lost photos and videos from Sony Cyber Shot DSC-H55 card

2010-08-20T23:25:00.000-07:00

The Sony Cyber Shot DSC-H55 is an elegant yet impressive compact camera with Sweep Panorama feature. Other features of this stylish camera include 14.1 megapixels, 10x optical zoom and Intelligent Auto Mode. The camera gives you a variety of options when it comes to selecting a storage media.

You have the freedom to select among Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG, SD or SDHC memory cards. Regardless of the flash memory-based storage media you choose, corruption issues will keep pestering you if you do not follow proper handling instructions. Since corruption leads to data inaccessibility, you would not want it to happen with you.

In case, you end up losing or deleting important pictures or videos, just stay calm. You can recover the lost data from your Sony Cyber Shot camera with the help of appropriate card recovery software.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you use Sony Cyber Shot DSC-H55 camera to click photos of a family celebration organized at your place. The next morning you load the SD card in your Sony camera to view and download the pictures, and instead encounter the following error message which goes like:

"Card error"

The unwelcome error pops up abruptly and restricts you from viewing photos clicked the previous night. Adding to the annoyance, the camera doesn't let you save more pictures or videos on the SD card until you fix the problem.

Cause :

The above error message is an indication that the SD card of your Sony camera has got corrupt. Since corruption damages the file system of a memory card, all the saved files become inaccessible.

Resolution :

The damaged card can be fixed by reformatting but you must also consider the following card recovery steps prior to that:

Connect the affected SD card to a computer and check if you can access the photos
If the above-mentioned trick doesn't work, then format the SD card in your Sony Cyber Shot camera and fix its damage file system.

As far as recovering lost or formatted photos is concerned, download professional card recovery software to do the job. Such software are designed to scan formatted memory cards thoroughly and retrieve data efficiently.

One of the safest recovery software available for photos and other multimedia files is Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery. The application recovers lost or deleted data from various digital cameras including Sony, Canon, Nikon etc. With support for both Windows and Mac, the card recovery application is quite a preferred one.

Recover deleted photos from Samsung NX10 Digital camera

2010-08-17T02:34:00.000-07:00

Camera: Samsung NX10 DSLR Digital camera

Memory card: Supported SD(Secure Digital) and SDHC(Secure Digital High Capacity) cards

Specification: Samsung NX10 have 14.6 Megapixels DSLR digital camera with APS-c size CMOS sensor, HD video recording, Iso 100-3200, 3fps continuous shooting with 3.0" OLED screen. Samsung NX10 captures photos, images and allow to share most beautiful moments of your life. The camera support SD and SDHC, which allow it, to maximum storage capacity of 32 GB.

Error:

You have to encounter following errors with Samsung NX10 digital camera:

SD card is not recognized by Samsung NX10 digital camera
Memory card required formatting

Causes:

The above error occurred due to the following reasons:

SD card is not properly inserted
SD card is corrupted

Resolution:

To solve the above problem, you have to follow these steps:

Make sure the card is properly inserted in the expansion slot.
Reformat the corrupted SD card
Turn off the camera when you are inserting or ejecting the card.

After formatting the SD card deletes all the photos and other data are not permanently. However, there is no need to worry because the formatted data is recoverable. The data can be recovered using an advance Card recovery software. A third party card recovery tool is available on the internet and allow user to recover all the lost or deleted data.

I recommend, Stellar phoenix photo recovery software to recover lost and deleted photos, images, music and video files from different digital media. This card recovery application is available for both Windows and Mac operating systems.

Can I recover lost or deleted data from memory card?

2010-08-06T04:05:00.000-07:00

Digital cameras have made it possible for photography buffs to capture those wonderful moments spent with family, friends or colleagues. In fact, it seems it has also got easier more than ever to lose digital pictures, either by an act of accidental deletion or by memory card corruption. One frequently asked question which hits many digital camera users is: "Can I recover data from a corrupt memory card?", and "Do you think I have not lost pictures forever? Well, the reply to both the questions is a positive one. If your memory card gets corrupt or you end up deleting some cherished pictures, you can perform card data recovery by using appropriate tools.

As technology is advancing, the ways to go about data recovery are becoming easier for an average person. In years gone by, the lost data could only be recovered by technicians or experts. Now-a-days, it is possible for most of the people to recover lost photos or videos from memory cards with the assistance of their workstation/personal computer and reliable card recovery applications.

Is it possible to recover lost or deleted data?
Your mind must be working hard to find an answer to the above query. To explain, when a file is deleted from a memory card, it is never gone forever. A memory card only removes the entry of the deleted file from its file system, marking the space as available to be used by another file. The content of the deleted files, however, remains intact at the same location until it gets overwritten.

What can be done to ensure successful data recovery?
You can recover lost or deleted files till the time there is no overwriting. Therefore, in order to ensure no overwriting takes place, it is advised not to use a memory card for any subsequent task. This includes both writing or editing any file. A memory card can be used after you are through with card data recovery.

Which software delivers good results?
In order to achieve effective results, ensure you select a good recovery application. Additionally, bear in mind that you have to opt for a read-only software.

Among many third-party software available over the Web, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is the most user-friendly and versatile one. This card recovery application recovers lost or deleted photos, audios, videos, and other multimedia files from a range of memory cards including SD, MMC, XD, CF etc. The software, available for both Windows and Mac, performs recovery in three simple steps: select, scan and save.

SanDisk memory card recovery facts

2010-08-06T03:26:00.000-07:00

SanDisk is the global leader in manufacturing flash memory-based cards. These cards are extensively used in many host devices like digital cameras, gaming devices, netbooks, camcorders, smartphones etc. The reasons behind their popularity are high data storage capacity and increased data transfer speed. Despite such advantages, these cards cannot be deemed as completely reliable and safe. In an event of corruption, they prompt the host device to exhibit strange behavior or throw errors, resulting in grave data loss situations. To compensate data loss from SanDisk SD cards, you can rely on an appropriate backup. However, if no backup is available, you must consider using a memory card recovery software.

Common error messages

As told above, a host device with corrupt SanDisk memory card can throw randomly generated bizarre error messages. Here is a list of some common ones:

"Memory card not recognized"
"Memory card error"
"Memory card full"
"No images"
"A media card has been inserted that contains errors. To correct the errors, please use a disk-checking utility on a computer," and others

Regardless of the variant or type (SD, CF or gaming card), a SanDisk card might display any of the above-mentioned or other errors in event of corruption.

Data recovery feasible in all instances

A SanDisk memory card may become corrupt in many instances including interruption in read/write process, file system damage or virus attacks. Luckily, you can recover lost or deleted data - images, audios, videos etc - by using a memory card recovery utility in an easy manner. Apart from corruption scenarios, data can be recovered in scenarios like accidental deletion, unintentional or intentional formatting etc.

Need to select a good tool

The possibilities of successful recovery hinge on how swiftly you act and which recovery tool you select for the recovery task. Immediate action is required because no tool can perform recovery if lost or deleted data gets overwritten. And, selecting a good memory card recovery software gives a boost to the chances of recovery. Therefore, you must do a proper research and analysis before employing a particular tool for memory card recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a comprehensive utility which recovers lost or deleted photos, and other multimedia files from a variety of memory cards including SanDisk, Lexar, Transcend etc. Available for both Windows and Mac operating systems, this memory card recovery software recovers all audio (MIDI, AIFF, M4A, OGG), video (AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV) and photo (JPEG, TIF, TIFF, GIF) formats.

How to fix “card error” in Fujifilm FinePix HS10 Digital camera

2010-07-28T03:21:00.000-07:00

A Fujifilm FinePix HS10 digital camera is a 10 mega pixel that incorporates features like continuous shooting, exposure control, self-timer, 30x optical zoom, 10 MP BSI CMOS sensor, 3.0 high resolution LCD, with 45 MB internal memory and a memory card slot (SD and SDHC). These memory cards support various file formats like RAW, JPEG, MPEG, and Monaural. The data saved in any of these file formats can become inaccessible if the SD memory card becomes accidentally damaged or corrupted due to various internal and external factors. The Corruption in a SD card occur due to improper camera shutdown, interrupted read or write operation or virus attack. An easy way to overcome with these issues you should have a proper backup process for recover the lost data. But, if the photographer has not maintained any backup, then he needs to use an advanced SD Card Recovery Software to recover the lost data.

As a practicle case, data stored on the fujifilm FinePix HS10 can become inaccessible and show the error message:

“card error”

The above error message doesn't access you the saved pictures and video which stored on the SD memory card.

Causes:

These are the following reasons for the SD memory card damaged:

If SD card is not compatible with the Fujifilm FinePix HS10 digital camera
If SD card is corrupted or damaged
Fujifilm FinePix HS10 digital camera malfunction
If SD card is not formatted

Resolution:

To resolve the above error message, the photographer need to follow these steps:

Use a SD card that is compatible with Fujifilm Finepix HS10
In case of Fujifilm FinePix HS10 digital camera malfunction contact nearest dealer.
While formatting the SD card delete the previous stored data, it can be easily recovered by using SD card recovery tools.

Such SD card recovery tool recover formatted SD cards, irrespective of their size. The recovered data saved as there desired location.

Stellar phoenix photo recovery software is an effective SD card recovery tool that recover data from the formatted SD cards but it also recovered data from other memory card like MMC, CF, etc. Before using the Stellar phoenix photo recovery software just download its free version from here.

How to recover deleted photos from Nikon D5000

2010-07-26T00:13:00.000-07:00

The Nikon D5000 is a 12.3 Megapixel Digital SLR camera with Nikon 18-55mm lens. The Nikon 5000 is a great choice for the expert photographer. It is easy to use and has a smooth navigation controls. The D5000 has 2.7 inch LCD monitor, ISO ranging from 200 to 3200 with a Lo 1 setting of 100 and a Hi 1 setting of 6,400 and 3D tracking Multi-CAM1000 11-point AF system.

With no internal memory, Nikon D5000 uses SD and SDHC cards as it storage media. These storage media can corrupt in many instances and leading to data loss. To over come with such situation, you need to use some powerful photo recovery software.

For example, If you are rapidly clicking photos from Nikon D5000 camera and immediately you remove the card without switching off the camera. But, when you try to view or transfer the photos to your PC, you are shocked by the error message:

“The card cannot be used”

After the above error message you find your photos and other multimedia files stored on the memory card become inaccessible.

Causes:

These are the following reasons for the above error message:

Corrupted or damaged SD and SDHC card on camera,
Unformatted card on camera,
card remove during the read/write process.

Resolution:

You can consider the following steps to over come with above problem:-

Re-formate the SD/SDHC card in your digital camera.
Restore the lost photos from a backup process.

If you are not successful in recover you lost photo from SD/SDHC card than download third party photo recovery utility from the Internet to recover your lost photos. It uses read only facility to recover lost photos, it not modify the the original data.

Use Recovery to recover lost photos, audio and video files of various formats from all most all storage media. For complete recovery, buy this photo recovery software programs to saves the recovered data in a desired specified location without modifying or overwriting the original data.

Data loss and recovery from CF cards

2010-07-12T02:33:00.000-07:00

Have you lost some important photos and videos from a CF card? Looking for a way to recover data from a CF card? Well, then you have come to the right place.

This article deals with the possible causes behind data loss from a CF card and appropriate recovery solutions available. Data loss from a memory card can happen in many instances, but the good news is that there are many ways to compensate the data loss.

There are solutions which prove really helpful in recovering lost or deleted CF card files when you do not have a clean and updated backup. In order to escape from such unfortunate data loss situations, you can opt for card recovery software from the Internet. You will find a plethora of professional recovery utilities on the cyberspace which would help you in recovering the lost data from a CF card in an efficient manner. However, the key to successful results lie in selecting a reliable and trustworthy product.

Reasons of data loss :

First and foremost, let's try to understand the reasons behind data loss from a CF card. There are few common reasons listed below:

Accidental deletion of photos, videos and other files from a CF card
Accidental or intentional formatting could lead to data deletion
CF card corruption is, yet, another major cause behind data inaccessibility
Other reasons include file system damage, virus attacks and more

Fortunately, you can recover lost photos, videos, audios - irrespective of the file format - from a CF card by using a proficient card recovery application. These tools apply improved scanning algorithms and extract data from a CF card within minutes.

Error messages and data recovery :

For instance, consider a scenario, wherein, you load the CF card in your camera to view some pictures, and receive the following error: "CF card error".

The error which renders data stored on a CF card inaccessible can be encountered due to varied reasons. But, fortunately, it can be dealt with a quick formatting followed by card recovery.

In a nutshell, you can use third-party software to recover CF card data in event of various memory card error messages.

Recommendations :

Among various competent-looking software on the Web, I found Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery as the most usable and productive card recovery software. This application recovers lost or deleted photos and other multimedia files from a range of memory cards including CF, SD, SDHC, XD etc. The application is available for both Windows and Mac users.

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Recover lost photos from digital cameras which use SD card

2010-07-08T22:22:00.000-07:00

Secure Digital cards have taken the world of digital photography by storm. Be it any camera - point-and-shoot or DSLR - it supports an SD card. In fact, digital cameras of various brands are compatible with these highly reliable memory cards. These cards facilitate huge data storage capacity and better data transfer speeds. These cards have either FAT 16 or FAT 32 file system. However, at times the file system of these cards can get damaged. In such scenarios, an SD card can become corrupt, rendering vital data - photos and other files - inaccessible. To compensate the data loss in such scenarios, you can look up to a backup. And, if no clean and updated backup is available, you must consider downloading an SD card recovery software from the Internet.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you return from a family vacation with approx. 500 pictures stored on the SD card of your digital camera. One fine morning, you insert the SD card in your camera in order to transfer them to a computer, and realize that the count of the pictures has declined drastically. You do not take the matter seriously, and consider re-inserting the card. Surprisingly, this time again you see a different count, say only 30.

Cause

The above behavior can be experienced in the following situations:

1.An SD card is not formatted properly

2.SD card corruption due to damaged file system

When you click a photo, your camera stores it on the SD card whilst marking its entry in the file system's index table. If your camera is not able to show some pictures, it means their entries have got deleted from the file system. Fortunately, now-a-days, you have ways to perform SD card recovery.

Resolution

You can take the following steps in order to overcome the problem:

Re-format the SD card in your digital camera
Restore the lost data from a backup copy
If you do not have a backup, use a third-party SD card recovery software

Such tools employ improved scanning algorithms and recover lost data from SD cards within a minimal amount of time. Above all, being read-only, they do not modify the original data.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a versatile application which recovers lost or deleted photos and other multimedia files from various memory card and digital camera brands. The SD card recovery application is available for both Windows and Mac users.

Memory card corruption in Olympus E-PL1 camera

2010-06-25T04:24:00.000-07:00

The E-PL1 is yet another addition to Olympus' Micro Four Thirds digital camera line. Incorporating 12 megapixels, TruePic V image processor, 3x zoom, and 2.7 inch LCD display, this camera comes with a new Live Guide mode.

The Olympus E-PL1 is compatible with both SD and SDHC cards. You can store countless images, videos, audio files on these cards. However, the file system of these cards is prone to getting corrupt. As a result, you may encounter several errors which would lead to data inaccessibility.

All your digital files would become inaccessible, and you will be required to do a restore from an updated backup copy. And, if you don't possess an appropriate backup solution, you can overcome the problem by using an advanced and reliable memory card recovery software.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you load the memory card in your Olympus E-PL1 camera to view the pictures stored onto it, and instead receive any of the following errors:

"This card cannot be read"

or

"This card cannot be used"

As a result of these errors, the previously saved pictures or videos would go beyond your reach until you fix them.

Cause:

The Olympus E-PL1 camera is bound to throw such errors in event of memory card corruption. Few reasons behind memory card corruption include virus attacks, turning off the camera without removing the memory card, rapidly shooting pictures and more.

Resolution :

The only way to fix a corrupt memory card is re-formatting it again. But, it must be followed by immediate memory card recovery if you wish to extract the inaccessible or lost data from the formatted card.

In order to perform recovery, you must grab an easy-to-use software from the Internet. But, be very careful while selecting a particular software as you can get duped by less competent software which would end up damaging your data.

Meanwhile, you can check for the following attributes in a good card recovery software:

It should be read-only
It should recover data from all types of memory cards and digital cameras
It should incorporate a simple and graphical user interface
It should support Olympus camera memory cards

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a user-friendly software which recovers lost or deleted photos and other multimedia files from a range of digital cameras including Olympus, Sony, Canon etc. The card recovery utility is available in two versions for both Windows and Mac users.

Photo recovery tips for Sigma DP1x users

2010-06-20T22:30:00.000-07:00

The Sigma DP1x is a high-end digital camera with world's first full color image sensor. Incorporating 14.45 megapixels, True II Image Processing Engine and 2.5 inch LCD display, this powerful camera is sure to attract both seasoned and amateur photographers alike. The DP1x includes JPEG recording mode along with a RAW recording mode for retaining full image capture detail of the utmost quality. photos can be stored on either SD or SDHC cards. You can use these cards in Sigma DP1x camera in order to store countless photos. But, be careful while handling SD card and related operations. A minor mistake in handling a memory card can lead to corruption and grave data loss situations. In such instances, you can recover photos either from an updated backup or by using an appropriate digital photo recovery software compatible with your Sigma DP1x camera.

As a practical case, consider a scenario where you have gone to a college friends' wedding ceremony and clicked photos with old friends. You return home and load the SD card in your Sigma DP1x camera to re-view the valuable photos, and receive an error message:

“Memory card error”

As a result of the above error, you are not able to access photos of the memorable time spent with your friends.

Cause

The above behavior can be observed if an SD card becomes corrupt. Corruption in an SD card mostly occur due to interruption in read/write process. This may happen if you continue clicking photos on low batteries or if your Sigma DP1x experiences an unexpected shutdown while writing a photo to an SD card.

Resolution

You must try and consider the following steps in order to perform photo recovery:

Connect the camera to a computer and access the photos there
Connect the camera to a computer via card reader and access the photos
Check for a backup
If nothing goes in your favor, format the SD card in your Sigma DP1x camera and perform photo recovery

Since formatting erases all the older entries, it becomes necessary for you to hunt a suitable and feature-rich recovery application. A third-party photo recovery utility employs improved and effective scanning algorithms and extract lost photos within a minutes time.

Simply use Photo Recovery is a versatile and easy-to-use software which recovers lost, deleted or formatted photos from all major cameras including Sigma, Sony, Nikon etc. The photo recovery software recovers all formats and is available for both Windows and Mac users.

How to retrieve data from Olympus XD card

2010-06-07T22:12:00.000-07:00

Olympus XD flash memory cards are mainly used in digital cameras. Being compact and durable, they are the ultimate choice of users looking for reusable and removable media. These cards offer higher storage capacity and resolution and are the only XD-picture cards which support the Panorama function in both Olympus cameras and other brands. With good transfer speeds, you can download your pictures to a computer and share them in a jiff. The only disadvantage of these cards is their tendency to get corrupt. Like most of the memory cards, Olympus XD cards may get corrupt in various scenarios, leading to data loss situations. If you have an appropriate backup, you can restore your lost pictures easily. And, even in the absence of a backup, it's not a herculean task to recover lost data. You can simply rely on a card recovery software to do the needful.

As a practical case, you may encounter the following error, while you try and click pictures using an Olympus XD card in your camera:

“Card not initialized”

Following the eruption of the above error, you won't be able to click and save new pictures onto the Olympus XD card. Additionally, all your previously stored pictures will also become inaccessible.

Cause

The above error could surface in the following listed scenarios:

If your Olympus XD card is not properly formatted
If your camera malfunctions
If your XD card's contacts need to be cleaned
If your XD card's file system is damage

Resolution

To sail through the above problem and error, you can perform the following card recovery steps:

Format the Olympus XD card in your camera again
Contact your camera dealer
Clean the receptors of your XD card with a soft and dry cloth
Format the card to install a new file system in the Olympus XD card

After you format the card in your digital camera, it becomes necessary for you to perform card recovery immediately. Any delay may result in diminishing the prospects of successful and absolute recovery of card data.

Overcome with Memory card error message from digital camera

2010-05-16T23:21:00.000-07:00

In present era almost all new devices come with some form of additional storage in the form of memory card. With different sizes and different types of memory card are available like CF (Compact flash), SD card, MMC etc. The benefits of additional storage is that you are able to store a lot of data compared to internal memory thats usually comes included with most electronic devices like digital cameras, mobile phones, computer, laptops etc. The loss of any data from the memory card causes a loss to the normal or professional users. They have a very crucial data or precious memories which is collected in the memory card which make them upset after losing data. The data loss due to any physical or logical error of memory card.

Causes of Memory card Corruption:

Card corruption or a damaged file system is responsible for the appearance of such an error. These are the basic reasons for the memory card corruption:

Removing of memory card while the camera was on
Regularity of low batteries.
Switching off a camera before an image is completely written to the card
The removal of memory card while the folder was open on a computer

All these are the reason of memory card corruption and show the following error message like
"Memory card error"

or

"card not initialized"

To overcome form all these error message and problem, the user can perform the memory card recovery. It is one of the best option to recover the lost data from the memory card.

The memory card recovery software is the best recovery solution which is designed to recovers lost, deleted, formatted photos, image and data files from SD, MMC Card,Flash Card, Digital Camera, USB Pen drive. The memory card recovery software is available in two different versions for both Windows and Mac users.

Recovering data from cell phone's SD card

2010-05-07T02:47:00.000-07:00

Gone are the days when you had to transmit your favorite music and photos to your cell phone's internal memory to access them. Well, the times have changed. You can store and access tons of data saved on SD cards used by new and advanced mobile phones.

An SD card is a perfect choice for you if want to keep your cell phone high on entertainment quotient. Despite the advantage of storing huge amount of data, SD cards have some limitations which cannot be overlooked.

For instance, in the event of corruption, you will not be able to access the data stored on your mobile phone's SD card. To deal with such cases, it is important for you to maintain a regular backup of your SD card data. However, if corruption occurs and you don't have a valid backup to fall back on, don't panic. An SD card recovery software can be used to extract data.

Fixing a corrupt SD card :

In order to ward off corruption problems and related errors, you are required to format the SD card in your cell phone. Formatting fixes a corrupt SD card by replacing the old entries with a new file system. After formatting, you have to opt for an SD card recovery utility immediately. Keep in mind that a recovery tool can successfully recover the data only when you don't store new data on the formatted SD card. The possibilities of recovery are high if your cell phone's memory card has a huge capacity.

Selecting a good third-party recovery tool:

Though, you may find many promising SDIO card recovery applications on the Internet, it is advisable for you to select a particular one after observing the following points:

You should always check a tool for its read-only attribute. A read-only tool doesn't modify the original file or content
Always opt for a tool which incorporates a simple and graphical user interface.
Ensure you select a tool which supports recovery of all multimedia files from an SD card
Always gauge the recovering capabilities of a tool by downloading its demo version. The demo version provides you with a glimpse of the recoverable data

Photo Recovery Software is a powerful utility which recovers all multimedia files (photos, audios, videos etc) from SD cards in almost all data loss scenarios including accidental deletion, unintentional or intentional formatting, file system damage, virus attack, corruption and so on. The comprehensive SD card recovery software is available for Windows sd card recovery.

Recover Lost Photos From MicroSD Cards

2010-04-27T03:33:00.000-07:00

MicroSD (Micro Secure Digital) is a popular format for flash memory cards. Such cards are most commonly used in digital cameras, mobiles phones, portable music players, personal digital assistants, and other hand-held devices. It is a non-volatile storage media, which does not require power to maintain the stored information in flash chip. You can store different types of pictures, songs, videos, graphic files, and other multimedia files on MicroSD memory card. However, in some situations, you may not access stored files from the memory card and encounter data loss situations. In these cases, an updated backup come for your help. However, if the backup is not there, you must use SD card recovery software to get your lost files back.

MicroSD is smaller in size and larger in storage capacity, as compared to other memory card formats, such SD card and MMC. These memory cards are presently available in various storage capacities, ranging from 64 Megabyte to 32 Gigabyte. Such type of flash media is very durable as they are capable of withstanding vivid pressure, ducking in water, and handling extreme temperature. They offers reliable data storage as they do not contain moving internal components and thus are free from mechanical damage.

In spite of being more dependable than other data storage media that contains moving components, MicroSD cards may encounter logical failure and you may lose the stored files. The logical crashes can be due to accidental deletion, memory card formatting, file system corruption, and media data structure corruption.

A MicroSD memory card may indicate the corruption in the form of error message, similar to the following ones:

Memory card has an unrecognized format. Reformatting will erase all data, Reformat now?
A Media Card has been inserted that contains errors. To correct the errors please use a disk error-checking utility on a computer.
Memory Card Corrupted.
MSDC Mount Error.
The request could not be processed because of an I/O device error.
Memory card error.
Couldn't find the SD/TF card.
SD/TF card error.

In these cases, SD Card Recovery becomes essential to get your lost files recovered.

Absolute SD card data recovery is possible using commercial Memory Card Recovery Software. The applications help you scan the entire memory card and extract lost files in all possible logical data loss scenarios. You do not need to have sound technical knowledge to use these tools, as they have simple graphical user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software effectively recovers missing, deleted, lost, or inaccessible files from memory card and other storage media. Along with MicroSD memory card, it also recovers files from SD, MMC, XD, CF, and other flash storage devices. The software is available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems, in two different versions.

Recover lost photos from SD Cards in Canon Cameras

2010-04-20T03:29:00.000-07:00

Canon doesn't need an introduction in the world of digital imaging. The company is well-known for its range of digital cameras which have made photography a cakewalk for even non-professional photographers. These cameras are compatible with SD (Secure Digital) and SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) cards.

A user can bank upon the enormous storage space for creating a data bank of images. These cards, like any other storage media, are prone to corruption in cases such as an interruption in read/write process, a virus infection or human error. Due to corruption in memory card, your Canon camera is bound to give certain errors which will restrict you from accessing the saved images. However, it is very much possible to access the images from a corrupted sd card by using an sd card recovery software.

As a practical case, imagine you are in the process of clicking images of your kid's first steps with your Canon camera and suddenly it turns off.

When you charge the battery again and start viewing the images, you may encounter the following error:

"Read/Write Error"

As a result of the above error, your previously saved images become inaccessible. Moreover, you won't be able to click and save new images on the camera. Don't despair, you haven't lost the images of your kids permanently. There is a way to recover them but before that it is important to understand the causes of the above error.

Cause :

The error which baffled the Canon user popped up as a result of SD card corruption.

Resolution :

Try and access the images by connecting the Camera to a computer
Or you can use a card reader to access the images
If both options fail, you have to format the SD card

Formatting will fix the problem and make the SD card fit to be used again by your Canon camera. But this solution has its own limitation, as you would end up losing the data stored on the card. Formatting installs the new file system in the card and hence erases the old entries. Recovering the data in such cases is not a major headache when you have a sd card recovery tool .

A sd card data recovery is designed to deal such cases of data loss. These third-party applications are non-destructive in nature as they restore data in original form.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a wonderful product which is capable of recovering all your lost/deleted pictures, audios, videos etc from various photo loss situations of SD Cards.

The SD Card recovery software, which supports Canon (CRW, CR2) file formats, is available in two versions for both Windows and Mac users.

SD card 'write error' need to format

2010-04-15T21:41:00.000-07:00

SD cards are flash memory devices which allow a user to store huge amount of data. Being reliable and durable, these cards have become the hot choice to store data and are used in various host devices like digital camera, PDAs, video game consoles, MP3 players etc. Despite so many advantages, these cards are also prone to errors. Most of these errors occur due to reasons like interruption in read/write process, virus attacks or file system corruption. While some SD card errors can be dealt by cleaning the contacts of the card and re-inserting it, others can be rectified by formatting the card. After formatting, the SD card data can be retrieved by using either a valid backup or SD card recovery software.

Consider a situation, you have taken your family to an exotic locale and while clicking pictures through your digital camera (which is using a SD card) you witness an error on its LCD screen:

“Write error”

The above error is not rare in case of SD cards. The moment the error erupts, the data stored on the SD card becomes inaccessible. Moreover, the SD card becomes useless as you can't even store new data on it.

Cause

The above error which rendered the SD card ineffectual can be accounted to corruption. The other reason can be relatively less memory space to accommodate new data.

Resolution

In order to rectify 'write error', you can try the following possible techniques:

Turn the camera off, re-insert the card and then turn it on again
If you are still not able to access the data, connect the camera to a computer
You can use a card reader to access the SD card data
In grim situations where nothing of the above works, format the SD card and restore the data using a backup

After formatting, the SD card becomes functional and can perform read/write operation. If a backup of the data is corrupted or invalid, you can rely on a SD card recovery software. A SD card recovery tool employs improved scanning algorithms to extract data in the event of corruption.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery, a well-known SD card recovery tool, is designed to recover lost/formatted/deleted multimedia files from a variety of memory cards like SD, SDHC, XD, MMC, CF etc. The easy-to-use tool is available in two versions, one each for Windows and Mac operating system.

SD Card Data Inaccessible in Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR

2010-03-15T03:16:00.000-07:00

A Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR camera is a 10 mega pixel that incorporates features like, continuous shooting, exposure control, self-timer, 10x optical zoom, CCD sensor, an inbuilt memory (47 MB), and a memory card slot (SD and SDHC). These memory cards support various file formats, including still images, AVI, JPEG, WAVE, and Monaural.

The data saved in any of these file formats can become inaccessible if the SD memory card becomes corrupted or damaged. Corruption in a SD memory card most likely occurs due to improper camera shutdown, interrupted red or write operation, and malicious software like virus.

An easy way to overcome the hazards created after SD memory card corruption is by restoring the data from an updated backup. But, if the photographer has not maintained any backup, then s/he needs to use an advanced SD Card Recovery Software to recover the data.

Below is the error message that pops up when the photographer attempts to view the files saved in the SD memory card:

“CARD ERROR”

The same error message appears on the camera, irrespective of the file (picture, audio, video, document) the photographer attempt to open. The error message appears due to below four reasons, mentioned below:

SD memory card is not formatted to be used in the Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR camera.
SD memory card is corrupted or damaged.
Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR camera malfunction.
SD memory card is incompatible with Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR camera.

To resolve the above error message, the photographer will need to use the below parameters:

Use a SD memory card that is compatible with Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR camera.
In case of Fujifilm FinePix F70 EXR camera malfunction, contact the nearest dealer.
For SD card damage, format the memory card. While formatting deletes the previously saved data from the memory card, it can be still be recovered by using an advanced SD Card Recovery Software.

Such SD Card Recovery tools recover formatted data from SD memory cards, irrespective of their size. The data recovered can be saved at your desired location.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an effective SD Card Recovery tool that not only recovers formatted data from formatted SD cards but from any other memory card, like MMC, CF, etc. Supported by both Windows and Mac OS X, the recovery utility recovers all kinds of file formats from the formatted memory card.

Resolving “Memory Card Error” in Canon G10

2010-03-10T22:24:00.000-08:00

Canon G10, a powerful camera in Canon G-series, fulfills all the demands of photographers. This third-generation camera comprises of 4.7 mega pixel camera, 3.0 inch PureColor LCD, print/share button, and 5x optical zoom. The images, videos, and audios captured from this camera can be saved in different kinds of storage media, like SD (Secure Digital), SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity), MMC (MultiMediaCard), MMC Plus Card, HC MMC Plus Card. These memory cards, though serve as reliable storage media, can get corrupted due to various reasons, including interrupted read/write operation. The digital media storage data becomes inaccessible after it becomes corrupted. In such cases, only a valid backup can help in overcoming the situation. However, in case of backup inaccessibility, the user needs to use a Photo Recovery application.

The above scenario can be explained by the below error message that appears when the card in the Canon G10 camera gets corrupted:

“Memory Card Error”

After the above error message pops up, the multimedia media files saved in the memory card become inaccessible.

Cause:

Corruption of memory card most likely occurs due to interrupted read/write operation. This happens when the digital camera shuts down abruptly while performing some read or write operation.

Resolution:

Format the memory card in Canon G10 camera. This resolution completely resolves corruption – of any kind – from the memory card. Although a boon in resolving memory card corruption, the process of formatting also has a major drawback – deletion of previously saved multimedia files from the memory card. In such situations, though most of the users think that the data is permanently erased, the fact is that the data is recoverable using a Digital Photo Recovery Software.

A Photo Recovery utility scans the memory card and recovers all the multimedia files. The recovered files can be saved at user-specified location. The user can also perform recovery of a particular file type from a formatted memory card using this application.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a globally recognized Digital Photo Recovery Software that recovers lost, missing, and formatted files from any memory card. The third-party utility recovers almost all kinds file types, irrespective of their size. Designed for Mac OS X and Windows, the free demo version of the software allows the user to preview the files before saving it at required location.

An Easy and Quick Way to Recover Deleted Photos From Memory Card

2010-03-10T02:57:00.000-08:00

Memory card is a popular flash storage media, which is considered safer than hard drive and other storage devices that contain moving components. You can store all types of files on memory card, including photos, songs, videos, documents, and graphic files. It is widely used in digital camera, mobile phone, portable music players, PDAs, portable computers, and more. In some cases, you may accidentally delete photos from the memory card or may unexpectedly format it. These situations cause grave photo loss and you need Memory Card Recovery to work around the issue.

In digital cameras, memory cards are used to store all the photos that you capture. However, the digital photos are more prone to loss as compared to the traditional film cameras as digital cameras have a utilitarian but unsafe delete feature or option. A fault operation might remove selected or all of the photos instantly from your memory card.

Now the question is- Do you also think that your valuable pictures are lost forever like various other digital camera users believe? If yes, then you are wrong. The files are still there on the memory card and are physically intact. Only the file system entries and file pointers of the files are deleted and thus the files are invisible and inaccessible.

Same as on the hard drive of your computer, when you save a file on memory card, a file system entry is created for that particular file in the file system table. The entry contains file name, storage location, file size, file pointer, and other relevant information. The file pointer is used by camera operating system to locate the files on memory card and access them. In case of deletion of the file, only file pointer is deleted. Lost photos remain physically intact, until they are overwritten.

If you have a complete and updated backup, restore your lost files from it to prevent need of Memory Card Data Recovery. In case of unavailability of backup, third-party recovery applications are required to extract deleted photos.

These tools are known as Memory Card Recovery Software. They perform extensive scan of whole memory card and retrieve lost, deleted, or missing photos from it. The Digital Memory Card Recovery applications are safe and easy to use.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced utility that ensures absolute recovery of all deleted photos from memory cards. It works well with all memory cards including MMC, SD, SDHC, XD, and MicroSD. The software works well with Windows (7, Vista, 2003, XP, 2000, and NT) and Mac OS X (10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther).

How to fix memory Card Errors in Sigma SD14 Camera

2010-02-24T02:24:00.000-08:00

Sigma SD 14 provides photographers the pleasure of expressing a real essence of photography. The digital camera comes with an intuitive user-interface, 2.5 TFT screen, mirror lock-up, 5-point DM Autofocus, and a memory card slot that supports Compact Flash (CF) memory card.

The card saves the pictures in RAW or JPEG file format. These pictures saved in the CF card can be accessed at any point-of-time, except when the memory card is corrupted. Corruption in memory card can occur due to various logical and physical factors.

To access the pictures in such cases, an easy way is to restore it from an updated backup. However, with high probabilities of backup file itself getting corrupted, it is always safer to have a advanced Card Recovery Software near you.

Consider a practical case, where your pictures saved in the CF memory card (inserted in Sigma SD14 camera) become inaccessible after any of the below error messages appear on the LCD screen:

“Incompatible file system. Format Card.”

or

“Error writing to CF card”

After any of the above error message appear, you are not able to either view your previously saved pictures or capture any picture.

Cause:

CF memory card corruption. Corruption primarily occurs due to virus infection, interrupted read/write operation, and improper handling of the camera.

Resolution:

As suggested in the user-manual of the Sigma SD 14 camera, you need to format the memory card in the camera. The process of formatting resolves both the error messages and brings the card in re-usable state. However, all the previously saved data in the CF memory card gets deleted after formatting.

For recovering all the lost data post formatting, you need to search for an effective Card Recovery Software.

A Card data Recovery software scans the CF memory card using powerful recovery mechanisms, which are competent enough to recover data even after formatting. The software is completely non-destructive, as the original data in the card remains intact when the recovery process is performed.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is one of most purchased Card Recovery application, world-wide . The recovery tool not only recovers data from formatted memory cards, but from other storage media (hard disks, memory sticks, etc.) as well. Separate versions designed for both Windows and Mac OS X operating system.

Tips to Solve 'Cannot copy [file]' Error in SD Cards

2010-02-23T20:16:00.000-08:00

FAT16 and FAT32 are the two most commonly used file systems of digital memory cards such as SD (Secure Digital) cards. But it is often recommended to use FAT32 over FAT16 for three top reasons:

Support to larger number of directory entries
Allowance to keep longer file names, and
Capacity to store comparatively larger number of files

Users of FAT16 SD memory card often complain about difficulties in storing more files even when the storage space appears to be quite empty. In such situations, the user may come across unavoidable situation of reformatting the SD card and restoring from backup, later. But if the backup fails to restore, a SD Card Recovery solution can help.

The following illustration will help you to comprehend such problems in more detail. Consider you use a 32 GB SD memory card. You connect the SD card to your computer and try to copy and add more photos to it. But you observe that the card denies to copy the file and reports an error that reads as below:

“Cannot copy [file]: The directory or file cannot be created.”

where, [file] is the name of the file you are trying to copy. The SD card is formatted to FAT16 file system.

Cause

FAT16 can hold a maximum of 512 entries in its root directory, which is much lower than that of FAT32 capacity of 65,534 entries. Also, in FAT16, long file names utilize two or more directory entries and hence lower down the overall capacity of the file system. The maximum number of files that you can store on a FAT16 device is 65,517, while on FAT32 device, it is 268,435,437.

The above error can occur if the SD card already contains maximum number of files that FAT16 can hold or the root directory is full.

Solution

Following are a few tips that can help you recover from such problems:

Create a subdirectory and copy all your files to it
Avoid assigning long file names
To permanently avoid this issue, reformat the SD card to FAT32 file system and restore from backup

In case you find backup unavailable, incomplete or prompting errors, use a SD Card Recovery Software to recover data from formatted SD card. The SD Card Recovery utilities are easy to use and prove competent in restoring lost photos, audios, and videos from SD cards.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable SD Card Recovery Software that recovers all types of digital data from formatted or corrupted SD card. The tool is available for both Mac OS X and Windows operating system. The software supports SD, miniSD, microSD, and SDHC memory cards.

How to fix Memory Card Error in FUJIFILM A150

2010-02-17T03:38:00.000-08:00

FUJIFILM A150 is a compact 10 megapixel digital camera that is easy-to-use and produces great images. Embedded with face detection technology, quality 3x zoom lens, the A150 fulfills all the demands of almost every photographer.

The A150 camera users use SD (Secure Digital) memory card to save their multimedia files. These cards, although the best storage media, can get corrupted due to various internal and external factors. The result of memory card corruption is an error message that prevents the users from accessing any of the files saved on the card. In such cases, an updated backup acts as a boon and allows the users to access the data.

However, if the backup of the files is missing or deleted, then the user can opt for an advanced Card Recovery Software that can salvage all the lost files from the memory card.

Data saved in the memory card becomes inaccessible after any of the two error messages appear on the LCD screen of FUJIFILM A150 digital camera:

“CARD NOT INITIALIZED”
Or
“BUSY”

The user is unable to save any new picture in the memory card after the above error messages appear.

Cause:

The fundamental reasons liable for the occurrence of the above error messages are:

Memory card is not formatted
Memory card is incorrectly formatted
Camera malfunction
Memory card contacts need cleaning

Resolution:

To resolve the above error messages and to access the memory card data, follow the below mentioned steps:

Clean the card with a soft and dry cloth.
If the problem continues, format the memory card in the camera.

The second resolution is perfect for resolving all memory card corruption issues. But, this resolution also comes with a disadvantage of deleting all the previously stored data on the memory card. However, there is no need to worry because the formatted data is recoverable. The data can be recovered using an advanced Card Recovery Software. A third-party Card Recovery tool is readily available on the Internet and allows even a novice user to recover all the lost data.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a powerful Card Recovery utility that salvages formatted data from almost all memory cards, including SD, SDHC, MMC, xD, and more. Designed for both Mac OS X, mac card recovery and Windows, the recovery tool supports recovery of GIF, RAW, JPEG, BMP, and similar file formats.

Fix 'Memory Card Error' in Canon Digital IXUS 400 Camera

2010-02-14T23:24:00.000-08:00

Canon Digital IXUS is a digital cameras series by Canon. These ultra-compact cameras use JPEG file format to store the images. Digital IXUS cameras use a range of memory cards such as CF (Compact Flash), MMC (MultiMedia Card), SD (Secure Digital), and SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity).

In contrary to their appearance, these cameras are vulnerable to crashes that can bring data loss problems. The digital memory cards that you use in different models of Digital IXUS cameras can get corrupt. In such situations if you fail to restore from the last available backup, a Card Recovery utility can help.

As an instance, consider the following practical situation with a user uses Canon Digital IXUS 400 camera. At times, when the user turns on the camera, it denies to read the memory card and returns the below error message:

"Memory Card Error"

The memory card is inaccessible within the camera.

Cause:

Possible reasons for the above error to occur in Canon Digital IXUS 400 camera are:

Firmware bug. This type of bug is typically found with IXUS 400 camera and occurs after sometime of using and storing some images etc. on the memory card.
Memory card is corrupt.

Solution :

You are suggested to follow these tips to solve the given problem:

Reset the camera. Try to remove and then insert the internal and external batteries of the camera. If the issue persists, contact the manufacturer.
Try to read the memory card using a card reader. If it cannot, your card is corrupt. Reformat the memory card to make it usable and capable to store more data. Restore from a reliable backup.

In case no backup is available or you find backup in corrupted or incomplete state, use a third-party Card Recovery Software. These applications can give comparatively effective results if you use them prior reformatting the memory card. The Card Recovery software scan the digital storage media and recover lost, deleted or inaccessible data from a logically crashed media such as memory cards, USB flash drives, hard drives, and more.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced utility that recovers lost digital data from memory cards, and other storage devices easily. The Card Recovery Software supports almost all digital cameras such as Canon, Samsung, Kodak, Pentax, Sigma and others. The tool is available for both Windows (Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000, and 2000) and Mac (Snow Leopard, Leopard, Tiger, and Panther) operating systems.

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

2010-02-10T20:04:00.000-08:00

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.

Resolving “No images found on the selected media” Memory Card Error

2010-01-27T20:47:00.000-08:00

Digital camera is the most excellent and popular way to take high-quality digital pictures. Picture is a way to capture once in lifetime event. Such events may include your summer vacations, college farewell party, first baby step, and more. Digital camera store these pictures on the memory cards, which is considered as an effective and reliable data storage media. However, in some cases, your critical pictures can not be accessed from the memory card and you encounter file loss. In order to retrieve lost photos, Memory Card Recovery solutions are required.
The memory card may become inaccessible through digital camera in various situations. When you attempt to access the stored pictures from memory card or try to copy the photos to your computer hard drive, you may encounter several error messages and the desired operations on memory card can not be completed. For instance, you may come across the below error message while trying to open a photo in digital camera:

“No images found on the selected media”

This is a quite stressing situation, particularly if you are a professional photographer and the memory card contains client's pictures. You definitely do not want to lose the photos and want to get them back at any cost. In order to recover photos in such situations, you need to find out the cause of this behavior and fix it through Memory Card Data Recovery methods.

Grounds of the issue

There could be two possible reasons of this problem:

The data structures of your memory card are corrupted. Data structures are used to index the stored files, easily manage them, and access them. After corruption to the data structures, files can not be located and accessed.

Memory card is accidentally formatted or the files are deleted. After deletion of the files, file location start list of digital camera becomes empty and this problem occurs.

Resolution

In order to lost photos, videos, and music files from your memory card, go for Memory Card Recovery Software. The applications carry out thorough scan of entire memory card and extract lost files from it.

The Memory Card Recovery tools come equipped with simple and rich graphical user interface and thus do not demand sound technical skills. They do not alter original data from the media as they have read-only conduct.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is the most effective and advanced tool to ensure absolute recovery of lost photos. The software recovers from all types of memory cards including SD card, MMC card, and XD card. It is available in two different versions for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Recover Lost Photos from Nikon D300 memory card

2010-01-21T23:25:00.000-08:00

Nikon D300, one of the Nikon's exclusive digital cameras, is built with 12.3 mega pixel camera that allows you to capture photos with amazing picture quality. The D300 supports Compact Flash card type 1 and 2 to store the captured pictures and videos. These memory cards have different storage capacity, starting from 20 MB to 32 GB. Corruption or damage in CF memory cards can occur due to various reasons, including interrupted read/write operation, virus infection, accidental drop down of the camera, and more. In such situations, you receive an error message on LCD screen of D300, which makes all the stored in the CF card inaccessible. In such cases, the data stored in the CF card can be accessed by restoring the files from an updated backup. But, with percentage of creating backup is very less, the data needs to be recovered by using an advanced Card Recovery Software.

Picture a scenario, where the below error message pops up after a read/write operation is interrupted:

"The card is not formatted. Format the card."

After the above error message pops up, the multimedia files saved in the CF card becomes inaccessible.

Cause:

The reasons for the occurrence of interrupted read/write operation could be:

Battery empty while capturing pictures or recording video.
Taking out the memory card while the camera is saving a video on a memory card.

Resolution:

Formatting the memory card in the camera is an effective solution to the above error message. The process installs a new file system and deletes all the previously stored files of the CF memory card. The process is useful only when the deleted is not of any use. However, if the deleted files are of great importance, then you will need to use an advanced third-party Card Recovery Software.

These recovery tools perform Digital Photo Recovery by incorporating advanced scanning algorithms. Such tools instantly recover all erased, formatted, and deleted photos. With interactive user-manual, these tools are easy to understand and implement. These tools do not overwrite any new data on the original data, making the recovery process safe and risk-free.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery, a world-wide trusted Photo Recovery software, provides complete recovery of all multimedia media files from a formatted memory card. Compatible with Windows and Mac OS X, the recovery tool supports recovery of all latest file formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, AVI, MOV, MIDI, etc.

Memory card corrupted in Canon EOS 7D Camera

2010-01-18T02:58:00.000-08:00

Embedded with brand new features, Canon EOS 7D digital camera is a delight for all the photographers. The camera with 18 mega pixel captures tremendous images and videos and stores them on the CF (Compact Flash) memory card. These cards, although considered to be safe media of storage, can be corrupted due to numerous reasons. Corruption of these cards primarily results in inaccessibility of all the images and videos stored in the cards. In such cases, these multimedia files can be easily accessed from a valid backup, usually created on a computer system. However, if a photographer has not created any backup or backup is incomplete, then the photographer needs to use an advanced third-party Card Recovery Software.

Consider a practical scenario, where any of the below error messages are displayed on the LCD monitor of the Canon EOS 7D camera:

“The card cannot be used”
Or
“Card cannot be accessed. Reinsert/change card or format card with camera.”

After the above error message appear on the LCD screen, the data stored on the CF memory card becomes inaccessible. Furthermore, these error message do not allow you to click any new images or videos.

Cause:

The root cause for any of the above error messages is corruption of CF memory card. Few major reasons for corruption are improper handling of camera, interrupted read/write operation, and virus infection.

Resolution:

The only possible way to resolve the above problem, in case of backup unavailability, you will need to format the memory card with camera (as suggested in error message). But, once the card is formatted, the data saved on it gets erased. The formatted images, videos, or any other multimedia files can be only recovered by using an advanced Card Recovery application. The Card Recovery utility allows recovery in three simple steps, download the software from Internet, connect card to your system, and run the application. With easy to understand documentation, the photographer can easily perform the recovery process. The software is completely non-destructive as it does not makes any changes in the original data stored on the memory card.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an effective Card Recovery that ensures complete recovery of data from almost all formatted memory cards, including CF, SD, and SDHC. Compatible with almost all file types, the software is designed for Windows and Mac OS X. The software can recover data from other storage media as well.

How to Recover Photos from Memory card corrupted in Canon EOS 7D Camera

2010-01-16T03:23:00.000-08:00

Embedded with brand new features, Canon EOS 7D digital camera is a delight for all the photographers. The camera with 18 mega pixel captures tremendous images and videos and stores them on the CF (Compact Flash) memory card. These cards, although considered to be safe media of storage, can be corrupted due to numerous reasons. Corruption of these cards primarily results in inaccessibility of all the images and videos stored in the cards. In such cases, these multimedia files can be easily accessed from a valid backup, usually created on a computer system. However, if a photographer has not created any backup or backup is incomplete, then the photographer needs to use an advanced third-party Card Recovery Software.

Consider a practical scenario, where any of the below error messages are displayed on the LCD monitor of the Canon EOS 7D camera:

"The card cannot be used"
Or
"Card cannot be accessed. Reinsert/change card or format card with camera."

After the above error message appear on the LCD screen, the data stored on the CF memory card becomes inaccessible. Furthermore, these error message do not allow you to click any new images or videos.

Cause:

The root cause for any of the above error messages is corruption of CF memory card. Few major reasons for corruption are improper handling of camera, interrupted read/write operation, and virus infection.

Resolution:

The only possible way to resolve the above problem, in case of backup unavailability, you will need to format the memory card with camera (as suggested in error message). But, once the card is formatted, the data saved on it gets erased. The formatted images, videos, or any other multimedia files can be only recovered by using an advanced Card Recovery application. The Card Recovery utility allows recovery in three simple steps, download the software from Internet, connect card to your system, and run the application. With easy to understand documentation, the photographer can easily perform the recovery process. The software is completely non-destructive as it does not makes any changes in the original data stored on the memory card.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an effective Card Recovery that ensures complete recovery of data from almost all formatted memory cards, including CF, SD, and SDHC. Compatible with almost all file types, the software is designed for Windows and Mac OS X. The software can recover data from other storage media as well.

Accessing SD Card through ADMA in Windows 7 May Cause Data Loss

2010-01-15T00:33:00.000-08:00

The ADMA (Advanced Direct Memory Access) is a controller to manage the communication between your computer and SD (Secure Digital) card. This mechanism enables you to transfer data quickly and easily. However, in some situations, using this configuration may damage your memory card and lead to critical data loss situations. In such circumstances, you need to go for SD Card Recovery solutions to get your valuable data back.

Consider the following scenario:

You have a SD card, which is formatted using NTFS file system. You use ADMA for transferring data between your memory card and the computer, which is running Microsoft Windows 7. However, while transferring data through this method, the logical structure of the memory card and data on the card may get damaged. Furthermore, unexpected issues may also occur when you attempt to use the damaged memory card or data.

Grounds of the problem

During the advanced direct memory access transfer process, the Sdbus.sys (Secure Digital Bus Driver) converts DMA meta data structure of the Windows 7 operating system to ADMA meta data structure of SD card. The ADMA and the DMA meta data structures are also called descriptor tables. The descriptor table holds a buffer address and a data length value.

The maximum size of data length field is 64 KB (Kilobyte) and its value is 16-bit. However, when the data conversion procedure goes on, the Sdbus.sys drive doesn't check the size of buffer in descriptor table of your Windows 7 system. Thus, the Secure Digital Bus Driver can set a wrong data length in SD descriptor table. For instance, the Sdbus.sys drive can set data length greater than 0xFFFF. In this scenario, the Input/Output errors may also occur. This entire behavior leads to severe data loss situations.

Solution

In order to prevent such situations and need of SD Card Recovery, Microsoft provided an update to fix memory card corruption issues in Windows 7. But if your data is lost already, you need to restore it from most recent back.

In case if the back is not updated or not available at all, SD Card Recovery Software are required. The applications methodically scan entire SD card using high-end scanning algorithms and extract all lost photos, songs, and videos.

The SD card file recovery applications have self-descriptive user interface to provide ease of use. With read-only and non-destructive conduct, these applications are completely safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Windows) is a comprehensive application to ensure successful recovery of all lost photos. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and NT. It supports all major cameras such as Nikon, Canon, Kodak, Sony, Fuji, and Olympus.

Resolving “This card cannot be used” Error in Memory Card

2010-01-14T01:55:00.000-08:00

Pictures are the best way to store memories in the form of files and digital camera is the best way to take high-quality pictures. Last week I went on a tour with my family to see royal places and purchased Nikon Coolpix S1 camera with 1 GB Scan Disk's memory card. It works fine until yesterday. Now I am not able to shoot pictures using this camera and the previously taken pictures are not accessible even. I think its a kind of photo loss and I need Memory Card Recovery solutions to extract lost pictures.

When I turn the camera on, it flashes the below error message:

"This card cannot be used."

The error message occurs even if the camera does not have any memory card. If I turn the camera on with the memory card, it looks fine. However, taking the photo results into the charge/flash light blinking for a couple of seconds. After that, it gives an error message stating:

"Warning!! This card cannot be read."

The menus are accessible only if the memory card is inserted in the camera, but I can not take any shot. The menu items are not usable. It shows black text, without any cursor to indicate the selected item. However, the items appear to work properly.

Formatting the memory card seems fine, and then I can shot pictures. But, when I press the Review button, screen becomes black and it needs to remove the battery to turn the camera off. The camera gets locked at this point.

One of my friends suggested me to check whether the card is not locked. He also asked to check if the icon comes in upper right corner when I insert the card. If the card is locked, it does not show in the camera.

However, my problem is different. The card is unreadable because its logical structure is damaged. In such situations, I have to use an advanced Memory Card Recovery Software that can recover all lost files from my memory card.

I search on the Internet to find out a powerful application and come across Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Windows) software. The software recovered all my lost pictures, songs, and videos in an easy way.

This Memory Card Data Recovery application uses powerful and efficient scanning techniques to thoroughly scan whole storage media and extract all lost data from it. The software has simple graphical user interface and thus do not demand sound and prior technical skills to retrieve lost data. With read-only and non destructive conduct, the tools perform safe Digital Memory Card Recovery.

Problems while using SanDisk SD Plus card with Windows XP or 2000

2009-12-22T20:26:00.000-08:00

An SD card is used by mobile phones, cameras, camcorders and many other such portable devices. It's prime purpose, of course, is to enable safe and convenient storage of any sort of digital data, like pictures, videos, audio clips, etc. Though these cards are compatible with almost all computers, they might encounter few problems with the same. These problems could be in the form of error message(s) or just data inaccessibility. While troubleshooting options, such as formatting, editing the registry, etc., solves many of these problems, it often leads to data loss. At such times if one does not have a back-up to turn to, then you should use an SD Card Recovery Software.

For example, when you are using the SanDisk SD Plus Card with Windows XP or 2000, you may come across some problems. Sometimes an error message might be displayed, at others it might just not function 'normally'.

Cause:

Two main reasons for the problem could be improper installation of drivers or SD card corruption..

Resolution:

Follow the steps below to resolve the problem:

1.In case of improper installation of drivers, follow the underneath steps:

Unplug the SanDisk SD card from your system.
Make sure you have a backup of the registry. (from the 'Start' menu, select 'Run', type 'regedit' and click OK, from the registry menu, select 'Export', and name the file). Save it to your desktop.
Run 'REGEDIT32' using the 'Start' > 'Run' option. Remove the below listed entries:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{a5dcbf10-6530-…}\##?#USBSTOR#Disk&Ven_Sandisk&Prod_SD_..........
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\USB\VID_0781&PID_6100
After removing the items from the registry, restart the computer.

Once the computer has restarted, insert the SanDisk SD Plus card. It should work fine now. However, if it still gives some problems, then your memory card is corrupted. In such situations, you will need to format the card in your computer. This enhances the usage between the computer and the card. Remember to select the FAT file system while formatting the card.

Whether you format the card, or lose the data during any other step in the process, you can always recover the lost files using an SD Card Recovery Software. These tools should be carefully chosen, as fake one's could cause further problems. The tools perform SD Card Recovery even from formatted and corrupted cards.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an SD Card Recovery tool which is available for both Mac and Windows OS. The software supports JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, MOV, AVI, etc. You can view thumbnail preview of the recoverable files using the free Trial Version of the software, and then use the Full version to perform the actual recovery.

Photo loss due to formatting of the Hard Drive

2009-12-16T02:22:00.000-08:00

Photographs, no matter where and how they were taken, end up getting uploaded to our hard drive. Many of us even store all the photos on our computer's hard drive. These hard drives often need to be formatted due to various logical corruption issues. Formatting a hard disk basically involves preparing it for usage by deleting all its previously stored data.. However, before doing so, one is always advised to create a duplicate copy of all the photographs stored thereon. Photo Recovery can be performed by using third-party tools, even when there is no back-up available.

A common instance of this is when your hard drive is infected with a fatal virus. While you can use an adequate anti-virus software to remove the deadly virus, the possibilities of its existence still remain. For complete removal of virus, you go ahead and format your hard drive. By the time you realize your mistake, it's too late to know that your photos and other files have been deleted.

Why do photos get deleted after formatting a hard disk?

A photograph is stored just like any other file is stored in sectors on the platters of the hard disk. The file system of the storage device enables the computer to use the storage space (sectors) and organize the data stored thereon.

When the hard disk is formatted, a new file system is set-up, thus preparing the platter to be used. When a used drive is re-formatted, almost all the data from the old file system is deleted. A new file system is then set-up in place of the old one. This new file system will seldom contain information from the old file system.

How to Recover Lost Photos?

For easy and systematic recovery of lost pictures, images, and other media file after hard drive formatting, a powerful Photo Recovery Software acts as a boon. The Photo Recovery tool is completely non-destructive in nature as it performs recovery without deleting or modifying the data stored on your formatted hard drive. The software comes with interactive user-documentation that makes it easy-to-understand and implement.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a Photo Recovery Software which can Recover Lost Photos. The tool can be used on both, Mac and Windows machines. It supports all multimedia file formats including; JPEG, TIFF, RAW, MOV, WMA, AVI, GIF, etc. The software is easy-to-use but extremely safe and efficient, allowing users to recover data themselves quickly, without the help of any 'expert'.

Tips to handle Memory Cards

2009-12-10T03:44:00.000-08:00

A memory card can be corrupted while you are saving, deleting, or opening data in the memory card. However, understanding the reasons of memory/flash card corruption can help you to prevent loss of data stored in your memory card. Below are some tips that enable you to save your memory card from getting corrupted:

Always switch off the digital camera before inserting or removing a memory card.
Do not switch off your digital camera while a photo is being saved on your memory card.
Always have your battery full when you want to transfer your data from your memory card to your system or vice-versa.
Always format your memory card in the digital camera, instead of your computer.
Stop taking pictures when your memory card is full.
Always wait for a picture to store in your memory card and then click the next one.
Always wait for a picture to store in your memory card and then click the next one.
Never rename, open, delete, or move files on the memory card while its contents are open on your system.

The above tips enable you to save your memory card from getting corrupted in most cases. However, if you have not followed any of the above tips and your memory card has been corrupted, then the best way is to restore your data from an updated backup. However, if you have not maintained any backup or backup is unable to restore the required data, then you will need to use efficient memory card recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 is a powerful and user friendly memory card recovery software that recovers lost files after corruption of memory card. The memory card data recovery is compatible with all major audio, video, and picture file formats, including jpg, jpeg, tif, gif, riff, tiff, avi, png, bmp, mov, wav, midi, and quicktime. The free downloadable trial version of the photo recovery software provides a provides a preview of all recoverable files.

For more information visit: http://www.memory-cardrecovery.net/

Canon CRW Photo Recovery

2009-12-07T21:19:00.000-08:00

Canon Cameras use the CRW file format for storing images. These are RAW image files which save pictures without applying any in-camera compression to them. The files are stored on memory cards which are highly prone to corruption. The slightest mistake during the read-write process of the card causes corruption. Taking a back-up of the card data, i.e., the photos, videos, etc., is the best prevention for permanent data loss. These back-ups, however, are not always accessible to the user. In such situations, one should use a Photo Recovery Software to recover lost or deleted pictures and videos.

For example, you have a new Canon camera, and you decide to change the memory card used in it. You pull out the memory card currently in use and replace it with a new one.

Later when you try to upload pictures from the old memory card, you find that all your pictures on it are inaccessible. You get error messages saying that the memory card is corrupt or that the card needs formatting.

Cause:

The above problem occurs due to errors during the read-write process of the data. When this process is interrupted mid-way, the card tends to get corrupted. This process could have been interrupted in several ways:
When the card is pulled out from the camera while pictures are still being written to it.
When the camera is on and the card is pulled out.
When the camera is switched off immediately after clicking photos.
In all the above cases the read-write process gets broken off. This causes the photos thereon to become inaccessible.

Resolution:

The first thing to do when a card is giving trouble, and the pictures and files thereon are still accessible, is to back-up the data on it. This back-up should preferably be taken on another storage device and not the same one.

You can then try and format the card. After formatting the card, pictures, videos, and other data on it become inaccessible, you can use a Photo Recovery Software to Recover Lost Photos. Not all software support CRW file, which are generated by Canon cameras.

While selecting the software to perform recovery, ensure that you select a trustworthy, well reputed tool. There are umpteen make-believe applications that damage the files while recovering them.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a Photo Recovery Tool developed to safely recover photos from all kinds of storage devices—Memory Cards, External Hard drives, Digital Cameras, Computer hard drives, etc. The software works on both Windows and Mac OS. It supports all popular camera file formats; CRW, CR2, NEF, ORF, SR2, MRW, etc.

Photo Recovery Software for Nikon Coolpix S100pj Supporting Memory Cards

2009-12-07T20:08:00.000-08:00

The compact digital camera Nikon Coolpix S100pj with features including a 12.10 megapixel CCD, a 5.00x zoom lens, a 2.7 inch LCD of 230,000 dot, 80-6400 ISO, a maximum aperture varying from f/3.9 to f/5.8, a built-in projector, has, besides its 36MB built-in memory, SDHC and SD cards for its storage media. As is the case with any other sort of external storage devices, data lost or deleted from SD cards are lost or deleted for good, because they when deleted do not go to the Trash or Recycle Bin to get recovered.

We usually use data backup program built-in on all computers and some recent digital camera models. However, if this ready-made facility cannot help, we have only to use certain memory card recovery software.

Suppose, if you have stumbled on your USB cable kicking the plug out from its port, or switched your camera off accidentally, or removed your card from the camera, or it has accidentally popped out from your camera while you are viewing photos on your camera or transferring them to your PC, it is certain that some logical damage has been caused to your card making it corrupt and unusable. Even if you try to access the card again and again, some error message like 'This memory card cannot be used', 'Card may be damaged', or 'Insert another card' repeatedly on your monitor.

The card unusable, you are at a loss. Only what you can do is rather to reformat the card to make it usable again, only to delete all your data on it right away. Then, have you lost your photos? No. You can recover your photos by running a data backup. But, make sure you do nothing to write any new data on the card, otherwise your photos will most probably get overwritten. Overwritten data can never be recovered.

If data backup program cannot serve the purpose, you need to use some powerful digital card recovery software. Card data recovery applications apply highly advanced methods to cater to complex memory card data recovery needs of the time.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 comprehensively recovers lost multimedia files of various formats from almost all storage media. Compatible with Windows and Apple Mac operating systems, this card data recovery application saves the recovered data in a user-specified location without modifying or overwriting the original files.

Resolve Memory Card Corruption due to sudden camera shut down

2009-12-05T01:25:00.000-08:00

A memory card is used in almost all media devices. Today, a lot of compressed file formats are available to help us store more on one memory card. The point of storing data from either your camera or cell phone to the memory card is so that when the time comes, you can easily transfer the data to the system or better still, you can store the data on that tiny little device. One should always ensure to take a back-up of some sort, just in case something goes wrong. However there is no need to get crushed if no back up is available. At such times use a card recovery software to redeem your pictures.

Storing pictures, videos, etc on a computer becomes problematic for camera lovers. It's not safe nor does it have the capacity to store all the pictures. This gives most users the notion that a memory card is the safest!

A simple instance of when a memory card gives trouble is while transferring pictures from the camera to the computer. The worst thing that can happen, is for the camera battery to run out, leading to the camera shutting down on it's own. When you recharge the battery and reconnect the camera, you get the message saying that the card is corrupt, leaving your photos inaccessible.

The camera writes pictures and videos to the memory card. When a camera shuts down while the data is being transferred to the computer, the memory card gets corrupted due to incomplete writing of the data.

At such times most people get disheartened and give up hope. They simply accept the fact that their pictures are lost and 'move on' to either reformat the old card or buy a new card. This fact that corrupted pictures cannot be recovered is again a wrong notion. This can easily be done by performing a card data recovery using a card recovery software. These software salvage card data by scanning the card's drive for information. This information is not really deleted (it's only marked as deleted) and so special tools can read it.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable card recovery tool. This tool is powerful and scans and recovers pictures without causing any damage to them. It can salvage data from all sorts of memory cards; SD Cards, Flash Cards, etc. The software gives you a preview of the recoverable data.

Pulling out the SD Card from the computer

2009-12-03T22:42:00.000-08:00

Secure Digital (SD) cards are Flash memory storage devices. They are widely used in all kinds of electronic media—computers, laptops, cameras, cell phones etc. The basic point is where there is technology, there are bound to be some technical mis-haps. Often small mistakes of ours (pulling out the card wrongly, accidentally formatting the card, etc), cause big problems. If you have a back-up at such times, you're spared the trauma of losing those pictures saved on the card. But when you don't have a back-up, or it's inaccessible, you tend to worry and get upset. At such times you should use an SD Card Recovery Software.

For example, when you remove the card from the camera, and then connect it to the computer to transfer photos. You see the content on your computer screen, then pull out the card presuming that the data has been transferred. Then you realize that the data was not transferred and try to re-connect the card to give it a second shot, but the pictures are not accessible now.

The photos are inaccessible because the card is corrupt. The reason for this is incomplete writing of the data from the memory card to the system. All hard drives have two principles on which data is transferred—Read and Write. The information is read from one disk and written onto the other. In this particular case, the data is read from the memory card and written to the computer hard disk. During this process, the card need to be connected to the system. Pulling out the card early breaks this process and thus your images are rendered lost.

This still doesn't mean your pictures are gone for good. You need to format the card to salvage your images. Formatting a used card means that all the data previously stored on it gets erased. After formatting the card, use a SD Card Recovery Software to perform a card recovery. This can be done by simply downloading the tool from the Internet, and then running it on the computer while the card is connected to it. These are utility software which have been designed for precisely this purpose. They scan the hard drive and retrieve all images from it. Once this is done, you can save them to a new folder or anywhere else you wish.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a card recovery tool which enables users to safely salvage data stored on their SD cards. The software gives thumbnail previews of the files which can be recovered, so you can select the one you want. It supports JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG etc.