TheCanon PowerShot S400 is a popular digital camera among photoenthusiasts with features like a 4 megapixels lens, autofocus, 3xoptical zoom, and several manual controls. The camera supports CF(Compact Flash) memory card to store the valuable pictures that theuser captures to store long-lasting memories. But when the card failsto communicate with no clue of stored files, this can turn to be aoverwhelming experience for the same user. Usually, such problems canbe resolved by reformatting the CF card, but it also causes theentire photo store to delete. In such situations if user cannotaccess or has a suitable backup, a SDCard Recovery Software can rescue. The further illustration shows a similar kind of issuethat can occur to a Canon PowerShot S400 user.

Consideryou capture some precious photographs with your Canon PowerShot S400camera. Due to an unexpected event, you need to shutdown the camerawhen internally, the camera was accessing the CF card. The next time,when you turn on the camera to view and access those valuable file,you find them inaccessible with errors such as:

“E50”

Or

“E51”

Sucherrors indicate failure of memory card to communicate with the CanonPowerShot S400 camera. The CF card is likely to be corrupted.

Solution

Youshould try the following solutions to solve the given problem:

• Remove the CF card and try to read it using a card reader. If it is accessible, the problem might be related to the Canon PowerShot S400 camera. You can try resetting the camera to its default settings and/or install the firmware updates.

• In case even the card reader cannot access the card, you are suggested to reformat the CF card in the camera and restore from backup.

Reformattingthe CF card deletes the entire files. Thus if a backup is notavailable, you should use a SD Card Recovery application.The third-party SD Card Recovery software are designed to run specific scanning algorithms to locate andrecover lost, deleted or missing digital files. Also, these utilitiesare easy to use with an interactive interface.

StellarPhoenix Photo Recovery isan advanced utility that can recover lost photos, audios, and videosfrom a variety of digital media including memory cards, hard drives,and cameras. The Digital Camera Data Recoveryisavailable for both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. The toolsupports almost all digital file formats.