SD Card Recovery Software

MicroSD is the thinner version of standard SD (Secure Digital) cards, designed especially for mobile phones. These cards are often used in digital cameras, portable media players, mobile phones, digital audio players, and other similar devices. Like any other flash memory card, microSD cards can store varying types of photo(s), video(s), and audio(s) and also, lose data due to common reasons. A corrupted microSD card is generally unreadable and inaccessible to the user. Thus to restore the data, the user needs to restore from an updated backup or use an SD card recovery utility.

Consider, trying to read a microSD card with a card reader and accidentally pulling it out while its file(s) were still open in your Windows computer. The next time, when you connect the same microSD card to the associated device, it refuses to read the card. Additionally, an error pops up that reads as below:

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

This error doesn’t allow you to access data from your microSD card further.

Cause

The file system structure of microSD card is corrupted.

Solution

You can solve the existing issue by running chkdsk on the card in Windows computer. For this, you need to follow the given steps:

• Connect microSD card to your Windows computer
• Open ‘My Computer’ and right-click the icon of removable disk
• Choose ‘Properties’ and then click the ‘Tools’ tab
• Click ‘Check Now’ and then select the ‘Automatically fix file system errors’ option
• Click ‘Start’

If the problem continues, you need to reformat the card and restore deleted files from backup. In case, backup seems inappropriate, you are advised to use an SD card recovery software.

Equipped with interactive user interface and advanced features, these SD Card Recovery solutions analyze the corrupted SD cards (having any version and form) with safe scanning algorithms. These utilities provide complete data retrieval and are secure to install on computers.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced utility that recovers lost/deleted audio(s), video(s), and image(s) from all types of SD cards, microSD cards, miniSD cards, SDHC cards, MMC cards, and a range of other digital storage media. The SD Card Recovery Software is available for both Windows and Mac operating systems.

FAT16 and FAT32 are the two most commonly used file systems of digital memory cards such as SD (Secure Digital) cards. But it is often recommended to use FAT32 over FAT16 for three top reasons:

Support to larger number of directory entries
Allowance to keep longer file names, and
Capacity to store comparatively larger number of files

Users of FAT16 SD memory card often complain about difficulties in storing more files even when the storage space appears to be quite empty. In such situations, the user may come across unavoidable situation of reformatting the SD card and restoring from backup, later. But if the backup fails to restore, a SD Card Recovery solution can help.

The following illustration will help you to comprehend such problems in more detail. Consider you use a 32 GB SD memory card. You connect the SD card to your computer and try to copy and add more photos to it. But you observe that the card denies to copy the file and reports an error that reads as below:

“Cannot copy [file]: The directory or file cannot be created.”

where, [file] is the name of the file you are trying to copy. The SD card is formatted to FAT16 file system.

Cause

FAT16 can hold a maximum of 512 entries in its root directory, which is much lower than that of FAT32 capacity of 65,534 entries. Also, in FAT16, long file names utilize two or more directory entries and hence lower down the overall capacity of the file system. The maximum number of files that you can store on a FAT16 device is 65,517, while on FAT32 device, it is 268,435,437.

The above error can occur if the SD card already contains maximum number of files that FAT16 can hold or the root directory is full.

Solution

Following are a few tips that can help you recover from such problems:

Create a subdirectory and copy all your files to it
Avoid assigning long file names
To permanently avoid this issue, reformat the SD card to FAT32 file system and restore from backup

In case you find backup unavailable, incomplete or prompting errors, use a SD Card Recovery Software to recover data from formatted SD card. The SD Card Recovery utilities are easy to use and prove competent in restoring lost photos, audios, and videos from SD cards.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable SD Card Recovery Software that recovers all types of digital data from formatted or corrupted SD card. The tool is available for both Mac OS X and Windows operating system. The software supports SD, miniSD, microSD, and SDHC memory cards.

The Canon PowerShot S400 is a popular digital camera among photo enthusiasts with features like a 4 megapixels lens, autofocus, 3x optical zoom, and several manual controls. The camera supports CF (Compact Flash) memory card to store the valuable pictures that the user captures to store long-lasting memories. But when the card fails to communicate with no clue of stored files, this can turn to be a overwhelming experience for the same user. Usually, such problems can be resolved by reformatting the CF card, but it also causes the entire photo store to delete. In such situations if user cannot access or has a suitable backup, a SD Card Recovery Software can rescue. The further illustration shows a similar kind of issue that can occur to a Canon PowerShot S400 user.

Consider you capture some precious photographs with your Canon PowerShot S400 camera. Due to an unexpected event, you need to shutdown the camera when internally, the camera was accessing the CF card. The next time, when you turn on the camera to view and access those valuable file, you find them inaccessible with errors such as:

“E50”

“E51”

Such errors indicate failure of memory card to communicate with the Canon PowerShot S400 camera. The CF card is likely to be corrupted.

Solution

You should try the following solutions to solve the given problem:

Remove the CF card and try to read it using a card reader. If it is accessible, the problem might be related to the Canon PowerShot S400 camera. You can try resetting the camera to its default settings and/or install the firmware updates.
In case even the card reader cannot access the card, you are suggested to reformat the CF card in the camera and restore from backup.

Reformatting the CF card deletes the entire files. Thus if a backup is not available, you should use a SD Card Recovery application. The third-party SD Card Recovery software are designed to run specific scanning algorithms to locate and recover lost, deleted or missing digital files. Also, these utilities are easy to use with an interactive interface.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced utility that can recover lost photos, audios, and videos from a variety of digital media including memory cards, hard drives, and cameras. The Digital Camera Data Recovery is available for both Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. The tool supports almost all digital file formats.

Stellar Information Systems Limited, 04 Feb 10, Gurgaon, a leading data recovery company, today announced a new photo recovery software version, Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.5, with added recovery support for several new image, audio, and video file formats.. The latest version represents a completely new paradigm with respect to integration and usage. Stellar offers this update for both Windows and Mac variants and is leap forward in previewing some image format files. The software free demo version to preview recoverable file and assess the interface is also available to download from Stellar’s website.

“Stellar always addresses its clients’ needs and Phoenix Photo Recovery 3.5 confirms the same. The new version delivers invaluable advantages over better management and workflow.”said, Sunil Chandna, CEO of Stellar Information Systems Limited. “The latest Photo Recovery software for Windows and Mac have been substantially improved to include a number of digital file formats that they can recover. The photo enthusiasts can now benefit from this relatively productive utility and recover their key important files.”

Key Updates in Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.5:

Image formats: Mamiya (MEF), Nikon (NRW), Sony (SRF), Panasonic (RAW), Adobe In design (INDD), Adobe Photoshop (PSD), JP2, and Tiff (updated)
Audio formats: Real Media (RM) and MP3 (updated)
Video formats: Digital Video(DV), 3G2, and M4B
File preview for Windows: Nikon (NRW) and Sony (SRF)
File preview for Mac: Nikon (NRW), Sony (SRF), Digital Video (DV), 3G2, and M4B

Pricing

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.5 is available with single-user license at an affordable price of $39.

About Stellar Information

Stellar Information Systems Limited is the foremost provider of excellent data recovery software and services and meets all ISO 9001:2000 standards. With direct presence in USA, Europe, and Asia, Stellar has an expanding client-base of above 1,100,000 worldwide.

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Call : +1-866-554-2512 (TOLL FREE)
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The ADMA (Advanced Direct Memory Access) is a controller to manage the communication between your computer and SD (Secure Digital) card. This mechanism enables you to transfer data quickly and easily. However, in some situations, using this configuration may damage your memory card and lead to critical data loss situations. In such circumstances, you need to go for SD Card Recovery solutions to get your valuable data back.

Consider the following scenario:

You have a SD card, which is formatted using NTFS file system. You use ADMA for transferring data between your memory card and the computer, which is running Microsoft Windows 7. However, while transferring data through this method, the logical structure of the memory card and data on the card may get damaged. Furthermore, unexpected issues may also occur when you attempt to use the damaged memory card or data.

Grounds of the problem

During the advanced direct memory access transfer process, the Sdbus.sys (Secure Digital Bus Driver) converts DMA metadata structure of the Windows 7 operating system to ADMA metadata structure of SD card. The ADMA and the DMA metadata structures are also called descriptor tables. The descriptor table holds a buffer address and a data length value.

The maximum size of data length field is 64 KB (Kilobyte) and its value is 16-bit. However, when the data conversion procedure goes on, the Sdbus.sys drive doesn’t check the size of buffer in descriptor table of your Windows 7 system. Thus, the Secure Digital Bus Driver can set a wrong data length in SD descriptor table. For instance, the Sdbus.sys drive can set data length greater than 0xFFFF. In this scenario, the Input/Output errors may also occur. This entire behavior leads to severe data loss situations.

Solution

In order to prevent such situations and need of SD Card Recovery, Microsoft provided an update to fix memory card corruption issues in Windows 7. But if your data is lost already, you need to restore it from most recent back.

In case if the back is not updated or not available at all, SD Card Recovery Software are required. The applications methodically scan entire SD card using high-end scanning algorithms and extract all lost photos, songs, and videos.

The SD Card File Recovery applications have self-descriptive user interface to provide ease of use. With read-only and non-destructive conduct, these applications are completely safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery (Windows) is a comprehensive application to ensure successful recovery of all lost photos. The software works well with Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, and NT. It supports all major cameras such as Nikon, Canon, Kodak, Sony, Fuji, and Olympus.

Secure Digital (SD) cards are Flash memory storage devices. They are widely used in all kinds of electronic media—computers, laptops, cameras, cell phones etc. The basic point is where there is technology, there are bound to be some technical mis-haps. Often small mistakes of ours (pulling out the card wrongly, accidentally formatting the card, etc), cause big problems. If you have a back-up at such times, you’re spared the trauma of losing those pictures saved on the card. But when you don’t have a back-up, or it’s inaccessible, you tend to worry and get upset. At such times you should use an SD card recovery software.

For example, when you remove the card from the camera, and then connect it to the computer to transfer photos. You see the content on your computer screen, then pull out the card presuming that the data has been transferred. Then you realize that the data was not transferred and try to re-connect the card to give it a second shot, but the pictures are not accessible now.

The photos are inaccessible because the card is corrupt. The reason for this is incomplete writing of the data from the memory card to the system. All hard drives have two principles on which data is transferred—Read and Write. The information is read from one disk and written onto the other. In this particular case, the data is read from the memory card and written to the computer hard disk. During this process, the card need to be connected to the system. Pulling out the card early breaks this process and thus your images are rendered lost.

This still doesn’t mean your pictures are gone for good. You need to format the card to salvage your images. Formatting a used card means that all the data previously stored on it gets erased. After formatting the card, use a SD card recovery software to perform a card recovery. This can be done by simply downloading the tool from the Internet, and then running it on the computer while the card is connected to it. These are utility software which have been designed for precisely this purpose. They scan the hard drive and retrieve all images from it. Once this is done, you can save them to a new folder or anywhere else you wish.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a card recovery tool which enables users to safely salvage data stored on their SD cards. The software gives thumbnail previews of the files which can be recovered, so you can select the one you want. It supports JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF, PNG etc.

Cameras are used for clicking some of the most memorable moments of our lives!!! Most people using digi-cams know that you can store pictures on your camera’s in-built memory as well as an expandable memory i.e. the memory card. But you need to keep off-loading them to some other storage device lest the memory gets full. This being said the chances of amateurs or even professionals, carelessly forgetting to do it leads to problems which end up causing picture deletion.

The SD card, or Secure Digital Card, has proven itself to be one most effective cards, with it’s increasing popularity, and its capacity ranging from 1 MB to 4 GB. This card is used in all kinds of cameras, cell phones and other portable devices. The card can easily be connected to the computer using a card reader (or if a direct slot is available, then directly). Since the storage capacity is so varied, a lot of devices prefer this card type over many others. But no matter how popular a device gets, problems are bound to follow suite!! And problems with the SD could mean pictures and videos stored thereon being lost for good. You can use an SD card recovery software to recover the lost files.

For example, you want to transfer pictures from the card to the computer. You connect the card to the system. You can see the list of pictures on your card. You start the transfer and then coolly pull out the card. The next thing you know, your pictures are gone. You again connect the card, but this time, there are no pictures and you get a message saying:

“Cannot read from the card. Do you want to format it?”

Cause:

This error occurred because your card was pulled out while the data from it was still being transferred to the system. This causes the card to get corrupted.

Solution:

The solution to this problem lies in recovering data from the memory card. When a card is corrupted, the computer cannot read from it. There are specially designed software to help us do such things. These software read the data i.e., your pictures, from the file system of the memory card and then retrieve lost or deleted files. Although many software perform card data recovery, not all software can recover SD card data. You must ensure that you use a reliable SD card data recovery software.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a powerful and user friendly software which can perform SD card recovery. The software supports various image file formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, etc.) as well as video file formats (MOV, AVI, WMV, etc.) and audio file formats (WAV, MP3, AIFF, MIDI, etc.). The tool has a highly interactive wizard style GUI.

Stellar Information Systems Limited,07 Oct 09 Gurgaon, the leading providers of advanced data recovery solutions, announces the latest release of its Windows and Mac photo recovery software- Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2. The new updated version introduces a new and bettered user interface that is more easy and efficient to use. The update includes added preview and recovery support for several new image and video file formats. The free demo version of the software is available for download on Stellar’s website.

“Digital photo loss is common among amateur and professional photographers. Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 will prove to be a time-saving and easy-to-implement solution for them.” said Sunil Chandna, Stellar Information Systems CEO. “The advanced version allows recovering lost photos within few mouse clicks. The software now provides highly customizable interface with support for widely-used digital file formats . ”

Updated features of Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2:

Improved user-interface
Easy-to-use options
Supports new image formats including DNG, SONY ARW, Kodak Intel, RAF Intel and EPSON ERF
Supports more video formats including M4V, 3GP and MPEG

Pricing
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery v3.2 single-user download edition (Windows and Mac versions) is available at affordable price of $39.

About Stellar Information Systems :
Stellar Information Systems Limited is an experienced and technologically advanced provider of industry’s best data recovery and data protection solutions. It is an ISO 9001-2000 certified company with global clientele across more than 137 countries and holds direct presence in USA, Europe and Asia.

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