Memory card recovery software

A corrupt memory card is more than enough to send shivers down a professional or amateur photographer’s spine. Though, memory cards have made it easy to store countless pictures and videos for a digital camera user, they have their own pitfalls. Corruption can sneak into a memory card due to various reasons and affect the data stored onto them badly. In event of corruption, the photos saved on the card become inaccessible, leaving a photographer at the mercy of a backup copy. And, when backup fails to fulfill the data recovery requirement or is itself corrupt, a photographer has no other way than opting for a memory card recovery software.

Thankfully, such third-party recovery utilities are available to ascertain a photographer that his hard work and efforts would not go in vain. Besides dealing with corruption, a recovery utility can help a photographer recover lost pictures in many scenarios like accidental deletion, unintentional or intentional formatting, file system damage, virus attacks and others.

Reasons behind memory card corruption

Today, memory cards are available in different variants including SD, SDHC, MMC, XD, CF etc. A photographer can choose a one depending on the specification of his camera and storage capacity requirements. Irrespective of their type, capacity and brand, memory cards fall prey to corruption because of the following reasons:

• Switching off the camera before an image is completely written onto a memory card
• Removing a memory card while the camera is writing an image to it
• Removing a memory card while it is connected to a computer and transfer process is on
• Ejecting a memory card improperly from a computer after completing the transfer process
• Formatting a memory card in a computer instead of a camera
• Stuffing a memory card with more and more images and not downloading therm to a computer
• Using a memory card in other host devices or other cameras
• Clicking pictures on low batteries and more

What next after corruption?

A corrupt memory card must be formatted as this process installs a new file system onto it and make it reusable. A photographer should then go for immediate memory card recovery in order to recover data successfully. Do remember if the memory card’s data gets overwritten, there is no way you can go about memory card recovery. Ensure you use a read-only and easy-to-use recovery utility.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable software which recovers lost or deleted photos and other multimedia files from all types of memory cards in three simple steps. This memory card recovery software is available for both Windows and Mac users.

Many mobile phone users, who use memory cards, with their phones often encounter a common problem. The card refuses to permit them to modify, copy or delete any content being write-protected. The solution to this problem may differ as the memory card family includes different variants viz SD,MMC, SDHC, XD etc. While is some cases, it may turn out to be complicated or in others you would be required to reformat the memory card. Irrespective of the memory card type, you will be able to remove the write-protection from your mobile phone. Moreover, if need arises to reformat the card, you can do it without any hesitation as your lost data can be retrieved by using a memory card recovery software.

Many-a-times, you must have come across the following errors while trying to transfer data on to a SD card:

“Cannot copy files and folders, drive is write protected”
“Cannot format the drive, drive is write protected”
“The disk is write protected”
“Media is write protected”

Though, all the above error messages may frustrate you, it is quite easier to eliminate them completely by observing certain steps. You can follow the below-mentioned steps, in order to remove write-

• Unlock the memory card: ‘Lock’ switch is slid up i.e. in the unlock position. You won’t be able to modify or delete the contents of the memory card if it is in a locked position.
• Open Start>>Run, type regedit and press Enter, this will open the registry editor
  Navigate to the following path:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies
Double-click the key WriteProtect in the right pane and set the value to 0 in the Value Data Box and press OK

Exit registry and restart your computer and now try to transfer data onto the memory card

• If the above steps, do not help you remove the write-protection, reformat the memory card in your phone

Formatting will reset the permissions but will erase the data stored on to the memory card. You need not worry about the data loss as it can be compensated from an updated backup. However, if you haven’t maintained one, you can opt for a memory card recovery utility.

Such third-party utilities are designed to recover lost data from a formatted memory card by applying effective scanning algorithms. But, make sure you select a read-only memory card recovery utility which doesn’t alter the original content.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable tool which recovers lost, deleted or formatted pictures and other multimedia files from all types of memory cards including SD, SDHC, XD, CF etc. The memory card recovery software is available for both Windows and Mac users.