Media Card Errors and Digital Image Recovery

Is your memory card giving errors, and is inaccessible? You may come across a situation, when your computer may not be able to read the contents of your card and will give errors. A memory card may become faulty due to numerous reasons, such as virus infection, boot sector corruption, and more. In such circumstances, a complete and updated backup comes to your rescue. However, if backup is not available, you may lose all your digital images on the card and need Image Recovery Software to extract lost files.

In a practical scenario, you may encounter an error message while trying to access a damaged card with your computer-

“A Media Card has been inserted that contains errors. To correct the errors please use a disk error-checking utility on a computer.”

In such situations, you may or may not see the contents of your digital media. You can perform Digital Image Recovery using different methods in such cases:

1.If you can see the contents of memory card, your images are safe. Immediately copy all the files from card to your computer hard drive. Format the affected media to get rid of these errors. After successful formatting, copy the files back to the card from computer hard drive. You should keep in mind that formatting removes all the files from media and you lose access of files if a valid backup is not in place.

2.If you can not see memory card content, try using a card reader for accessing data, instead of any other device like digital camera. If this trick does not work, you need to check the card for errors. It is possible to check media errors using Disk Repair utilities, such as ChkDsk in Microsoft Windows and Disk Utility in Mac OS X operating system.

3.If the media can not be repaired, memory card formatting is the only way to solve the issue. However, it removes all the files from card and causes severe data loss. In order to get your valuable data back in such cases, Image Recovery is a must.

Digital Photo Recovery Software allow you to carry out quick and absolute recovery of all lost multimedia files from formatted memory card. These third-party tools have simple graphical user interface and non-destructive demeanor to ensure easy and safe recovery.

Photo Recovery is the most advanced utility to recover lost photos, songs, videos, graphic files, and more. The software has separate versions designed for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.