Memory card recovery software

A memory card is a compact portable storage device, which is used by many electronic gadgets in today’s world. It follows the same read-write technology that a computer hard disk uses to save data. The memory card is formatted in order for it to function in sync with the camera. Formatting the card also solves a lot of card-related errors and problems. Issues of card corruption, formatting errors, read-write errors, etc., can be resolved by simply formatting the card and then restoring the data . If there is no back-up of the lost data, then you can always use a Memory Card Recovery Software to retrieve lost images.

For example while viewing the pictures stored in the memory card, you get the following error message:

‘Card not initialized’

Neither does the camera take pictures after this error message, nor can you access any of the pictures previously stored in the memory card.

Cause:

The error message basically tells the user that the card is not ready for use. The reasons for this could be many. Some of the reasons behind the appearance of this error message are:

The card is formatted incorrectly.
There was an error during the read-write process of the card,which this leads to card corruption.

Resolution:

Whatever may have been the reason behind the problem, the only way to resolve it is by formatting the card. This erases all the data on the card and sets up a new file system. While formatting the card keep in mind that it should be formatted in the device it is going to be used by. Once a new file system has been set-up, the card will work like it did the first time you used it. The old data that has been lost due to formatting, can easily be recovered using a Memory Card Recovery Software.

The tool works on the principle that data is stored on several places on a hard disk. Therefore, even after a hard disk has been formatted, the data originally stored on it is recoverable. Memory card recovery can thus be easily done using tools, which penetrate the formatted hard disk and recoup old data.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a Memory Card Recovery tool which uses high-end technology combined with an easy interface to enable users to recover data easily and efficiently. The software is compatible with Windows and Mac (OS X) operating systems and supports all popular file formats, such as, JPEG, BMP, GIF, AVI, MOV, etc.

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 software needs of the time.

Along this line, 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.