SD Card Recovery Software

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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