subject: How To Recover Deleted Photos After "memory Card Corruption" [print this page] Until the advent of digital photography, photographers seasoned or amateurs used to rely on film cameras. Today majority of people use a digital camera to cater to their photography needs because of instant results. A user can click, delete, edit and share photos in no time. Above all, the advancement in technology has brought it within reach of many users thanks to the afford ability factor. Despite so many advantages, one still can't overlook the fact that digital photos can become inaccessible in case of storage media corruption. Memory card corruption is something which a user has to take with a pinch of salt. But an alert and smart user can battle the corruption if he has got a valid and updated backup to restore the lost photos in the event of corruption. And in case, there is no backup available, a user can rely on a digital photo recovery software to recover deleted photos.
As a practical case, you may witness the following error when you load the memory card in your digital camera:
The card is not formatted. Format the card
As soon as the error occurs, it won't allow you to view photos saved on the memory card. Besides rendering the data inaccessible, it won't allow you to save new photos onto it.
Cause:
The above message is an outcome of memory card corruption which could have crept due to interruption in the read/write process. An interruption in the read/write process can take place due to following reasons:
Turning off the camera while you are transferring pictures to a computer
Clicking photos with low batteries
Removing the memory card while its content are still open on a computer (and many others)
Resolution:
In event of memory card corruption, you can fix the card by formatting it again. Formatting will install a new file system in the card and you will be able to store more photos on to it. However, in order to recoup lost photos after formatting, you have to select the best digital photo recovery software.
These third-party photo recovery utilities recover lost/deleted/formatted photos efficiently. Moreover, being non-destructive in nature, they cannot harm the original content during the recovery process.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable software which recovers all multimedia files from a formatted memory card and other storage media like memory sticks, Windows/Mac hard drives, Zip disks, USBs and other removable media. The photo recovery tool recovers almost all photo formats including, JPEG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP, RAW etc.
