How to recover lost photos after Memory Card Corruption

A memory card is an electronic data storage media used for storing digital information like photo, pictures, images, audio and video files. Memory card is used in various devices like digital camera, PC, Laptop, music player, mobile phones and video games. Memory card have many different types like SD card, CF card, Memory stick and XD picture card.

However some logical problem may make memory card corruption and causes critical photo loss situation. In such cases, it become essential to use memory card recovery software for recovering lost photo from the memory card.

When memory card get corrupted, it shows various error message:

• Memory card error
• Card locked
• Card error
• Memory card not recognized
• Card not initialized

All the above error message apper on your digital camera screen and the valuable photos which are stored in the memory card become inaccessible or lost. In some cases your digital camera show the message to reformat the memory card and refuse to take the new photos.

Causes of Memory card Corruption:

• Pulling out memory card without switching off the camera,
• Turning off the digital camera during read/write operation,
• virus infection and
• file system damage of memory card.

Solution:

To recover your lost photo after memory card corruption, you should follow these steps:

• Avoid using memory card for further process
• Remove the memory card from the digital camera
• Connect the memory card to PC via card reader
• Download and run the memory card recovery software
• Select the media(memory card drive) and start recovery
• After scanning the media software will show the preview of stored photo files and folder
• Save the photos, pictures, audio and video files to the different location.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a powerful memory card recovery software which recovers lost, deleted and corrupted photos from various memory card like SD, SDHC, MMC, MMC plus, XD cards etc. The memory card recovery software support various file formats like JEPG, GIF, TIF, TIFF, RAW and PNG. The software is available for both Windows and Mac Machine.