Card Recovery Software

It is hard to imagine how one would manage without a cell phone in today’s hustle bustle world. Although each cell phone is unique in its own way, they all have one thing in common—the use of a memory card. Almost all mobile phones use an expandable memory for storing image, audio, and, video files. These memory cards use a flash memory for storing data. The Secure Digital (SD) card is widely used by many cell phones, simply due to their compact size. This card too, like all other gadgets, can get corrupted due to various logical factors. Corruption in memory card primarily results in one or more error messages. Often such errors lead to the loss of multimedia files. At such times, if you have no backup available, you can use an Card Recovery Software to recover lost files.

A common instance of this occurs when you try to use your SD card in the computer to transfer or edit files. The card displays an error message saying that the files on the card cannot be previewed. Furthermore, when you try to copy them to the computer, you get one more error message:

‘Cannot copy [filename]: the parameter is incorrect’

You can only see the files in the folder, but cannot do anything with the files. In other words, the files on the SD card are inaccessible.

The reason behind this is that at the time of formatting, the card had been incorrectly formatted.

One can try to use a card reader to fix the problem. It is possible that the computer is unable to read the card correctly. A card reader eases this process.

If using a card reader does not make your data accessible, then try to re-format the card. Formatting a card sets up a new file system, that allows the SD card to interact with the device (in this case, the cell phone). To format the card, follow the steps given below:

Double-Click on ‘My Computer’
Right click the drive that represents the SD card in the ‘My Computer’ window.
Select the ‘Format’ option.
Select the ‘File System’ tab in the new window that opens. Select the ‘FAT32′ option in the drop down menu.
In the ‘Allocation Unit Size’ button, select the ‘Default Allocation Size’ option.
Ensure that the ‘Quick Format’ box is not checked. Click ‘Start’.

Once the SD card has been re-formatted, all the data on it is erased. To recover lost data, if you have no back-up, you can use an SD Card Recovery Software. These third-party tools perform card recovery by scanning the file system of the card thoroughly.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is one such card recovery software that recovers data after all kinds of data loss situations. The software supports recovery of all kinds of multimedia file formats, including JPEG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, MOV, AVI, WMA, etc. The tool also has a free trial version so you can preview the recoverable files before recovering them with the full version.

A memory card is used in almost all media devices. Today, a lot of compressed file formats are available to help us store more on one memory card. The point of storing data from either your camera or cell phone to the memory card is so that when the time comes, you can easily transfer the data to the system. One should always ensure to take a back-up of some sort, just in case something goes wrong. However there is no need to get crushed if no back up is available. At such times use a card recovery software to redeem your pictures.

Storing pictures, videos, etc on a computer becomes problematic for camera lovers. It’s not safe nor does it have the capacity to store all the pictures. This gives most users the notion that a memory card is the safest!

A simple instance of when a memory card gives trouble is while transferring pictures from the camera to the computer. The worst thing that can happen, is for the camera battery to run out, leading to the camera shutting down on it’s own. When you recharge the battery and reconnect the camera, you get the message saying that the card is corrupt, leaving your photos inaccessible.

The camera writes pictures and videos to the memory card. When a camera shuts down while the data is being transferred to the computer, the memory card gets corrupted due to incomplete writing of the data.

At such times most people get disheartened and give up hope. They simply accept the fact that their pictures are lost and ‘move on’ to either reformat the old card or buy a new card. This fact that corrupted pictures cannot be recovered is again a wrong notion. This can easily be done by a card recovery software. These software salvage card data by scanning the card’s drive for information. This information is not really deleted (it’s only marked as deleted) and so special tools can read it.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable card data recovery tool. This tool is powerful and scans and recovers pictures without causing any damage to them. It can salvage data from all sorts of memory cards; SD Cards, Flash Cards, etc. The software gives you a preview of the recoverable data.