SD Card Recovery Software

Although advanced digital cameras have internal memory, but most of them support extendible memory in the form of memory cards. Moreover, it is a good practice to rely on the memory card for storing your precious images instead of internal memory of camera. Memory cards are data storage devices that are slightly bigger in size than a postage stamp, but can store hundreds of photos together. Therefore, a small problem with the memory card of your camera can result in troublesome situation or can cause severe data loss. Below mentioned are common issues faced by memory card users and possible methods to fix them:

• Issue 1: ‘Write Protected’ Error Message in Your Camera Card: Many times when you use a new memory card in your camera, you get an error message that it is write protected. Generally the memory cards have a lock switch at the left side of the card, if this switch is at the lower or bottom position then the card gets locked for writing any new data on it. Therefore, to unprotect your card from the write protections slide this switch to upward position.

• Issue 2: You Lost Some of Your Photos: Despite the advance nature and large data storage capacity, the camera cards are prone to data loss. You may come across situations in which you accidentally delete some photos from it. The best way to handle situations in which you lose your photos due to unexpected deletion is card recovery software. There are many card recovery tools available by which you can easily recover your lost or deleted image files.

• Issue 3: Your Computer Becomes Unable to Read the Card: Some users complain that their memory card is not detected by their computer. Generally this happens when your computer does not support the type or size of the memory card you are using in your camera. For example some very old computers do not read memory cards that have data storage capacity higher than 2GB. In this case upgrading your computer to make it compatible with the larger cards can solve your problem.

 If this is not the problem with you and your card was previously detected by your system, then there must be some issues with the card, like card corruption. In such situation formatting the card in the camera can make it detectable by the computer. However, formatting may cause data loss, but card recovery software is there for you to overcome such losses.

• Issue 4: You Encounter ‘Memory card error’: A very common error message that memory card users come across is ‘Memory card error’. You can try below mentioned steps to fix this message and avoid bad after effects of this problem:

  • Try to access your data through computer by attaching it through card reader.

  • If this does not work, then check your card for errors through CHKDSK in Windows and ‘Disk Utility’ in Mac.

  • If none of the aforementioned steps work to overcome your problem, then formatting the card can rectify the problem. To recover formatted data use card recovery software.

With the help of advanced mobile phones, it has become possible to click and store precious photos and videos in our phone itself. And it is seen that in past one decade the number of people who use their phones as repository of their crucial data, especially photos, has increased. However, with increased flexibility of these smart phones, we at times forget that these too are small computers and can encounter data loss. Memory card corruption and accidental deletion of data are some of the common scenarios encountered by various mobile phone users. In such cases updated backup works as a best method to restore your data. Continue reading →