subject: How to fix SD card corruption and recover videos from Canon Vixia HG20 [print this page] How to fix SD card corruption and recover videos from Canon Vixia HG20
The Canon Vixia HG20 is a brilliant HD camcorder which incorporates easy-to-use features. The stylish camcorder lets you record and store high definition videos on both internal hard drive (60GB) and SDHC cards. In fact, you can achieve greater recording time if you use the flash card. Though, an SD card gives you the freedom of recording long and high quality videos, they can fall prey to corruption. An SD card can become corrupt in many instances including interruption in read/write process, file system damage or virus attacks. In such situations, it can render your valuable videos inaccessible. To overcome card corruption issues, you must first format the SD card, which should be followed by restoring the data from a backup. However, if there is no backup available, you must consider using a video recovery tool.
Consider a scenario, wherein, you are recording a video during your son's birthday party and suddenly the batteries conk out. After charging the camcorder, when you re-insert the SD card and try to view the videos, you may get the following error message:
"Memory card error"
As a result of the above error message, the videos saved in the SD card of Canon Vixia HG20 become inaccessible.
Cause
You may encounter the above error if the SD card of your Canon Vixia HG20 camcorder goes corrupt. Corruption can take place due to interruptions in read/write process like clicking videos on low batteries, pulling out the SD card while the camcorder is still on etc.
Resolution
To overcome the above problem and make the SD card reusable, you would be required to format the SD card again followed by video recovery. Since formatting deletes the data from the SD card, you must recover it using a backup.
In case, you do not have one, then you need to hunt for a reliable video recovery software from the Internet for easy and instant recovery.
Such tools employ improved scanning algorithms and recover lost or deleted videos in almost effortless way. Being equipped with simple and intuitive graphical user interface, these recovery applications are easy-to-use.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a versatile and risk-free utility which recovers lost or deleted videos and other multimedia files from almost all camera and camcorder brands including Canon, Panasonic, Nikon, and more. The video recovery software, available for Windows and Mac users, recovers all video formats (AVI, WMV, MP4, MOV etc).
