The Canon PowerShot SD960 IS Digital Elph camera is loaded with easy-to-use features and smooth navigation controls, which a casual user expects in a typical point-and-shoot camera. The stylish camera incorporates 12.1 megapixel CCD sensor, 4x optical zoom and Canon's DIGIC 4 processor. While other stand out features include a 16:9 widescreen 2.8 inches LCD display, 720p resolution high-definition video capture and image stabilization. The camera saves photos to SD, SDHC, MMC, HC MMC cards. Despite being durable, these cards can become corrupt in many instances and render photos inaccessible. An easy way to compensate the data loss is restoring lost photos from an updated backup copy. However, if you do not possess a backup or if it is itself corrupt, then you must search for an effective photo recovery software.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you are rapidly clicking photos from your SD960 IS camera, and you remove the card without switching off the camera. Now, when you re-insert the card in the camera to view the photos, you may receive the following error message:

"This card cannot be used"

After the above error message, all photos and other multimedia files stored on the memory card become inaccessible.

Cause

The Canon SD960 IS camera displays the above error when its memory card becomes corrupted. In the above case, the primary reason for memory card corruption is interrupted read/write process.

Resolution

You can try the following steps to recover lost photos, prior using a photo recovery application:

• It is possible that if you connect the camera to a computer, you might access photos

• If computer doesn't recognize the memory card, you must use a card reader and try to access photos

If you are not successful in recovering photos on a computer, look for a backup, which you might have maintained. If this strategy also fails, then format the memory card in your Canon camera and download a third-party photo recovery software from the Internet to recover lost photos.

Such professional tools employ improved scanning algorithms and recover deleted photos from a formatted memory card within a few minutes. Moreover, you need not acquire any technical knowledge in order to perform recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a comprehensive utility which recovers lost or deleted photos, and other multimedia files from a range of digital cameras including Canon, Sony, Kodak etc. Available for both Windows and Mac users, this photo recovery application recovers all file formats.