subject: How to Recover Lost Photos from Corrupt SD Memory Card? [print this page] How to Recover Lost Photos from Corrupt SD Memory Card?
Is your SD (Secure Digital) memory card inaccessible from your Mac OS X computer? Are you getting errors while accessing photos, videos, songs, and other graphical files from SD card? This behavior may occur due to logical corruption of memory card. In such cases, digital camera and card reader can not locate the stored photos on memory card. It leads to critical data loss situations. At this point, an absolute backup of your memory card proves great help. However, if backup is not available, mac photo recovery becomes need of hour.
SD memory card may get damaged due to numerous reasons. The corruption is generally indicated by strange behavior of memory card while accessing data from it or by the error message it throws when you try to access a corrupt SD card. The most frequent SD card errors are as given below:
"There was an error while trying to format your card (Error code 0)"
"Cannot read from the card. do u want to format it"
"Unknown error"
"Memory card error - unreadable card"
"Corrupt data"
After the above errors, memory card becomes totally inaccessible. In order to extract images from SD card, you need to identify the cause of this behavior and perform photo recovery Mac by fixing it.
Root of the problem
The logical corruption of SD memory card may occur due to any of the below reasons:
The file system of SD memory card is corrupt.
Memory card is infected by viruses or other malicious programs.
You have ejected memory card from digital camera or card reader while writing process was going on.
Accidental deletion of critical memory card data structures.
Memory card formatting.
Read/write errors in SD card.
When come come across any of the below situations, you face severe photo loss.
Resolution
You can try out any of the following methods to fix this problem:
Use Disk Utility or fsck tool to fix memory card errors.
Use Mac photo recovery software to retrieve lost, missing, inaccessible, or deleted multimedia files from it.
The Mac photo recovery software are competent enough to thoroughly scan memory card and extract all pictures from it. They are totally safe and easy to use with read-only conduct and simple user interface.
Stellar PhoenixPhoto Recovery is the most advanced and powerful utility to successfully recover lost pictures. The software works well with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger, and 10.3.9 Panther. It salvages photos from memory card, hard drive, USB drive, iPod, and digital camera.
