Memory card is a popular storage media, commonly used in digital cameras to store pictures it takes. Most widely used types of memory cards are SD (Secure Digital), MicroSD, XD (Extreme Digital), Memory Stick, and MMC (Multimedia Card). For some causes, the memory card might get corrupted due to virus infection, removal of the memory card on photos viewing or shooting, power shortage, and memory card system file corruption. This behavior of memory card may lead to critical data loss and need Memory Card Recovery to extract lost data.

The memory card corruption is generally indicated by some error messages such as “Card error”, “Card locked”, and “Memory card errors.” At this point, you precious photos may disappear on the memory card. Sometimes, the camera might prompt you to format the card and you can not take a new picture or view the old pictures. You can avoid memory card damage by following the underwritten steps:

• Do not eject memory card while viewing or saving photos.

• Do not eject memory card while turning the camera on or off.

• Never change the memory card when your camera is on.

• Stop viewing or taking new pictures if camera battery is low.

• Use memory cards from reliable and experienced manufacturers.

• If many dissimilar cards get corrupted in your camera, the issue may be with the digital camera itself.

Every memory card has a lifespan. A memory card unit is almost 10,000 erase/write operations. Thus, it is good to throw the memory card that is used often for several years.

When your memory card gets damaged, all your significant photos become inaccessible and you need to perform Memory Card Data Recovery by solving the problem to extract inaccessible images.

Solution:

Once your memory card gets damaged, you are highly recommended not to perform any operation on the memory card. Taking new pictures, formatting the memory card, or deleting existing pictures may overwrite the lost photos and may make the lost photos irretrievable. You can recover lost photos in such situations using memory card recovery software.

The Memory Card Recovery applications work in most of the memory card corruption situations and recover lost photos, videos, and music files. The applications are safe and easy to use with read-only behavior and simple user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is the most effective and powerful tool to recover lost, missing, and damaged multimedia files. The software is available for both Windows and Mac OS X operating system in different versions.