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

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.

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

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.

Photo loss due to formatting of the Hard Drive

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'.

Photo Recovery Software for Nikon Coolpix S100pj Supporting Memory Cards

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

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

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.