How to Resolve “CF card not initialized” in Sony Alpha DSLR-A100 Digital Camera

Camera: Sony Alpha DSLR – A100 Digital Camera

Memory card: Supported CF (Compact Flash) cards.

Specification: Sony DSLR-A100 Digital Camera has 10.2 Megapixel cameras with Minolta lens. With simple auto adjusting setting, dual anti-dust system protects CCD sensor, 2.5 inch LCD screen, high capacity lithium ion battery. The Sony DSLR A100 Digital Camera captures and allows you to share most beautiful moments of your life. The camera has no internal memory and supported expandable memory (CF cards).

Error:

You may encounter some problem when you accessing CF memory card in another device (like card reader) for transferring the data and encounter the error message:

“CF card not initialized”

Due to the above error message the photos stored in the CF memory card become inaccessible.

Causes:

You can observe the above error message in the following situation:

• CF memory card is not properly inserted in the digital camera
• Improper handling of CF memory card
• Sony DSLR- A100 fails to recognized CF memory card

Solution and Recovery:

To solve the above problem, you need to follow the following steps:

• Make sure the card is properly inserted into the slot
• Try to access the CF card in digital camera
• Access your memory card via computer
• If you unable to access your photos
• Use powerful digital photo recovery software

To recover the photos from the CF memory card, the user needs to use effective photo recovery software. This photo recovery software recovers and restores lost photos by using influential scanning methods.

Stellar phoenix photo recovery software is user friendly software to recover lost or deleted photos, images, audio and video from different digital media like SD card, SDHC card, MMC card, CF card and XD card.

How to Recover lost photos from Kodak Easyshare M381

Camera: Kodak Easyshare M381 camera

Memory card: Supported SD (Secure Digital) and SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity cards)

Specification: Kodak Easyshare M381 camera have 12.4 Mega pixel digital camera with a 5x optical zoom lens, 3.0 inch LCD, Menu structure is simple and efficient, Close up focus is very good for shooting text.

It also provides the facility of "undo delete" function in the menu structure. With easy to use, Kodak Easyshare M381 captures and allows you to share most beautiful moments of your life. The camera is available with 32 MB internal memory and an expandable memory supported to SD and SDHC cards.

Error:

A user using Kodak Easyshare M381 digital camera may get different errors while using SD/ SDHC card or its internal memory:

• Memory card not recognized
• Camera freezes with card
• Memory card requires formatting

Causes:

The above error occurs if one of the following conditions is true:

• Not inserting the card properly
• You are using a corrupted SD/SDHC card
• Turning off camera during read/write process

Resolution:

To fix the above issue, you need to follow these steps:

• Make sure the card is properly inserted into the slot
• Turn off the camera when you are inserting and ejecting the card.
• Try to access the SD/SDHC card in digital camera
• If you still unable to access the format the SD/SDHC card

When you format the corrupted SD/SDHC memory card, it deletes all the data and installs new file system on the memory card and allows you to recover lost or deleted photo using digital photo recovery software. But always remember that doesn’t overwrite any thing on the memory card before using digital photo recovery software.

Such applications scan the affected digital media and restore the lost photos, pictures, images using photo recovery algorithms.

Stellar phoenix photo recovery is an advance utility to recover lost digital data from memory cards, camera and external hard drive. This photo recovery software supports the entire file format like JPEG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, MVI etc.

How to recover deleted photos form memory card using photo recovery tool

Digital Cameras are the Integral Part of our life today. We take photos and store it in a memory card. The Problem happens when these memory cards get corrupted and you lose your heart and a fear of photo loss comes in to your mind instantly.

This is because photos help us to preserve lots of memories.

Suppose you are a professional photographer all your business depends on these photos.

There are many reasons of photo loss:

1. Accidental deletion
2. Memory card corruption
3. Mechanical error in a digital camera
4. Virus Infection of the cards while transferring the photos from Camera to Computer

A proper backup of these photos can save you but if don't have any back up what will you do? Don't be worried use a photo recovery tool.

Consider a scenario: Suppose you are editing the Photos taken by you in wedding Ceremony. You are transferring the Photos from your digital Camera to Computer, and suddenly you got this error:

“Card cannot be used”

Due to this error, you are unable to access the wedding photos taken by you.

Cause

This can happen due to many reasons which are explained earlier but the main reason for this is memory card corruption. Corruption in the memory card generally occurs switching off the camera during read/write operation. You can also corrupt your card while transferring photos from one source o another like placing the memory card of one camera to another camera as every camera has its default settings.

Resolution

To resolve the above error message, follow these steps:

• Connect the camera to a computer via card reader
• Access your memory card through Computer
• Check whether you are able to access your card.
• IF unable to access your photos
• Use a powerful photo recovery software

As Formatting erase the file entry of the data from the memory card but the space occupied by deleted file remains intact on the card. You can get those photos from your memory card using robust photo recovery software.

The photo recovery software is designed to scan and than recovered the lost photos safely. It can recover files of various formats like JPEG, TIF, GIF, BMP, MOV, MP3, PNG etc.

I have used Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery which is very user friendly and versatile. This recovers lost or deleted photos, audio and videos from various storage medium like hard disks, digital camera, memory cards: SD, SDHC, MMC, XD, CF; external hard drives, CD, DVD and many more.