Digital camera, the most efficient way to take crystal clear digital pictures, uses memory cards to store pictures that you shoot. Memory cards are the electronic flash media storage devices, which do not contain any moving parts to store and retrieve digital data. They are re-recordable devices, which can hold data without the power, i.e. memory cards are non-volatile storage devices. These devices are more stable and reliable than traditional hard drives as they do not have any moving components. However, memory cards are not completely safe as they face various kinds of logical damages and file loss. In such situations, you need to use digital photo recovery applications to retrieve lost or inaccessible pictures.

Memory card logical corruption is generally indicated by strange behavior of memory card or by various error messages that occur when you try to access data from or store data to the card. The error messages may vary, depending upon the cause and type of logical damage. Some of the common error messages that occur while using a flash card, are as given below:

A Media Card has been inserted that contains errors

Card Error

Card has wrong format

Error 30 Format CF card before use

The Card cannot be used

Card Requires Formatting What Causes Memory Card Corruption?

The card corruption and file loss can be caused by various reasons, ranging from virus infection to memory card data structure corruption. The most frequent reasons of memory card logical corruption are:

Virus infection. Pulling out memory card while write process is going on. Power surges. Switching off the camera during write process. Memory card metadata structure corruption.

Along with the above reasons, you may also lose photos due to accidental deletion, memory card formatting, and other similar reasons.

In all such situations, a complete backup proves to be of great help to sort out this problem and perform photo recovery. Critical situations occur when the backup is not updated or it is not available at all. At this point, image recovery software come to your rescue.

The applications are powerful enough to methodically scan entire memory card and extract all lost, missing, or deleted files from it. The applications come equipped with interactive graphical user interface to offer easy picture recovery in all cases of photo loss.

Author:-K MADHAV