Thursday, April 21, 2011

Photo Recovery Tool for Memory Card Corruption

Photo Recovery Tool for Memory Card Corruption
In a present era, We live in a world where digital cameras have become more importance in our every day activities. We depend on them just like mobile phones. We depend on them to take and store our photos and precious moments in the digital camera memory cards.

Memory cards are very small in size but it store files of large sizes. The storage capacity of memory card depends on its size. It is a very secured storage device now a days. But, it may also get corrupted and make inaccessible of data like photo, picture due to various reasons.

Some of the common reasons for the corruption of Memory card:
  • Pulling out of memory card while the camera is on.
  • Using of same memory card in different devices like digital camera, music player, computers.
  • Taking of too many photos while battery is low.
  • Sudden shut down of camera during transfer of photo from camera to computer
  • Due to virus infection
  • physical damage of card
But no need to worry ! Still there is chance of recovery of lost or deleted photos or files using photo recovery software. With the help of photo recovery software, you can easily recover deleted photos and files from corrupted or formatted memory cards. Formatting of memory card delete all the previously stored data from the card. After formatting the card, data stored in the card become inaccessible. If there is no proper backup available you can use photo recovery tool.

The photo recovery tool recovers photos, pictures, audio and video files of almost all types of formats including JPEG, TIFF, TiF, PNG, RAF, RIFF, NEF, MPEG, MOV, MIDI, MP3, MP4 and many more. The software has advance scanning process that scan the specified drive and show the preview images of lost data like photos, audio, video clips etc that are easily recovered.

It can recover files from the various memory card like SD cards, MMC cards, XD cards, memory sticks, flash drive etc and also recovers lost photos from various digital camera like: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Kodak, Panasonic, Samsung, Fuji and many more.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

How to recover photos from a corrupt Nikon Coolpix S570 camera

Nikon Coolpix S570 is an ultra compact and strong camera with all aluminum body. The camera is 12 mega pixel and has 5x wide-angle zoom and a 2.7 inch monitor. The camera is a user's delight with dimension of 92 x 56.5 x 21.5mm and a light body of 137 g. This camera uses SD (Secure Digital) or SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) memory cards to save the images. Though these memory card have large memory space, they are highly susceptible to corruption if proper care is not taken. In case of corruption in the memory card, the solution to bring back the card in to working condition is to format the card. But a formatted card erases all the photos previously saved on the card. In such a condition, you can get back your erased data by the use of photo recovery software.

Picture a scenario, wherein you have gone for a picnic and have snapped a number of photos with your Nikon Coolpix S570 camera. Back home when you switched on the camera and accessed the memory card to view the photos. On this, your camera LCD screen prompted the following error message:

“Image cannot be saved”

After you received the error message, the photos on the SDHC memory card became inaccessible.

Causes:

Few reasons why you got the above error message are as follows:
  • The photos snapped in the camera has out numbered the maximum capacity
  • The space in the memory card is insufficient
  • Corrupt memory card

Resolution:

You can perform the following steps to resolve the problem:
  • Delete some photos from the memory card
  • Alter the setting of the 'image mode' from 16.9 to another value
  • If none of the above procedures give the desired result, then format the memory card
Though formatting of the memory card brings it back to the working condition, but it erases all the photos in the card. In such a case, if you have an updated backup, you can recover your lost photos from the backup. But in case you have no proper backup, you can still recover the photos by using photo recovery software. The software implements high ended algorithm to recover the inaccessible data from a formatted media.