subject: Fixing Errors Which Render Videos Inaccessible [print this page] The new age digital cameras and camcorders make you capture videos of special events of your life without much hassle. Most of the digital cameras and camcorders use high-capacity memory cards which allow you to shoot and store numerous videos. Though, memory cards are safe medium, they can render saved videos inaccessible in event of corruption. Corruption can damage the file system of a memory card and, eventually you have to resort to restoring pictures from an updated backup. In absence of a backup, you have a good chance of recovering lost videos by using an efficient video recovery software.
,b>Common memory card errors
In event of corruption, your camera or camcorder may throw various errors when you try and view previously saved videos. Some of the most common and annoying error messages are:
Memory card could not be recognized
Memory card could not be read
Memory card requires formatting
Memory card error
Write error and more
Avoiding errors
It has been observed that memory cards become corrupt due to improper handling. In order to prevent memory card from getting corrupted, you can consider the following steps:
Remove the memory card and then, switch off a camera or camcorder
Do not remove the memory card while it is transferring videos to a computer
Do not remove the memory card while its content are open on a computer
Do not use a single memory card in various host devices
Do not shoot videos on low batteries
Do not stuff your memory card too much, keep downloading videos regularly
Do not format a memory card in computer, it should be done in a camera or camcorder
Fixing corrupt memory cards and video recovery
A corrupt memory card should be formatted in a camera. Formatting installs a new file system into the card and makes it reusable. In order to retrieve videos post formatting, you must download a reliable and safe video recovery utility from the Internet. Such third-party tools employ sophisticated algorithms and extract videos from a formatted memory card in a few minutes time.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a user-friendly yet powerful software which recovers lost or digital image recovery from multiple camera and camcorder brands including Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Nikon etc. The video recovery software recovers all formats (AVI, MP4, MOV, WMV etc) in three simple steps viz select, scan and save.
