How to fix Flash Card errors

Flash card is a data storage device which is used to store digital information. It is non -volatile in nature and can be used with many electronic devices such as mobile phones, camera, mp3, players, video players, gaming consoles, etc.

While using your flash memory card you may get some error. Error messages are different to each other and depends up the type of logical error occurred in your flash card.

Few common error messages are:

Read error / Write error

Memory card error

No memory card

Card not initialized

Card error

The card cannot be used

To fix the above errors follow these steps:

Take out our memory card from your device and try to use it in another device after wiping it with soft cloth or cotton.

If are still getting same or some other error message then connect your memory card to your computer through card reader. If you can’t see your data stored in card, you need to check your cards for errors.

Use the disk repair tools for it that is in built function of operating system.

eg- Chkdsk utility in windows or Disk utility in Mac OS.

If above option doesn’t solve your issue, you need to format your card through your computer (don't format your card through your device) and need to take the help of some data recovery software to get your photos, video files and audio files. One such software is Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software. It is true value for money product.

It doesn't matter what kind of memory card error you are facing, stellar data recovery software can recover your data safely.

Steps to use stellar card recovery software:

Download stellar card recovery software from the Internet.

Scan your card with recovery tools.

There is a wizard style interface to shows all recovery process.

Once it scans you can see preview of all scanned photos and multimedia file.

Now you can select files and press recovery button for recovery.

This software shows an idea to bring a new solution in this digital era.

Few Tips to Ward off Memory card Disasters

When the flash memory of camera becomes corrupt, its performance gets down. If your memory card is unreadable, it is almost impossible to access the clicked photos or recorded videos on it. Understanding of how memory cards become corrupt will help you somehow to save from memory card disasters.

Previous Researches have shown that in most of the cases the main reason behind the data corruption on memory card is due to our own mistakes.

Few tips to avoid data corruption on memory cards:

Low batteries of camera:

If your camera battery is too low and you still continue taking the pictures, memory card can become corrupt. It is also important to avoid bad batteries as if you are transferring pictures or videos from camera to your computer and your batteries die during that process, your flash memory card could show “error in reading” message.

Storage capacity issue:

Your memory card can show that you can store 500 images but it depends upon size and resolution of images. It has seen that the flash memory card with no space may overwrite its headers. It doesn't matter that your 100 MB memory card is full or 2TB memory card is full. So keep transferring the data from your flash memory card to some other storage device to keep your data safe.

Formatting of memory cards:

It is important that formatting of memory card should be done to the camera only not in computers to get optimum performance. If you are using your memory card from one camera to another, formatting of card should be done to the new camera.

By following the above you can ward off the big memory card disasters.

Even after trying your best to save your memory card from corrupting, you could not get success, don't worry. Now days it is still possible to get your data back from corrupted memory card.

Lots of data recovery software is available online. With the help of them you can recover data from any type of corrupted flash memory card.

If you are looking for a good data recovery software you can consider Stellar Phoenix card recovery software as the best. It is user friendly and can recover photos, videos and audio files of all extensions.

Steps to use Stellar Phoenix SD card Recovery software:

1. Download and install a Sd card recovery software.

2. Run the software and start scanning the affected media.

3. The software will find the deleted files and shows you a list of those file.

4. Select the files you want to recover from it.

5. Save it on some location other than affected drive.

How to recover deleted or lost images from Panasonic Lumix GH3

Panasonic GH2 which was released 18 months back which really impressed us with its features. It’s capability of capturing a high level still images and video footage. Now this time Panasonic arrived with its new version that is GH3, which is the successor of GH2.

Panasonic launched its early sample of GH3 in Photokina 2012; people were very excited to see this sample of GH3.

Panasonic had done a lot of research and consulted around 100 Panasonic GH2 users, including professional photographers, film makers, broadcasters and post production, to listen what they would like to see in GH2 replacement.

Panasonic says that they had achieved 75-80% required changes with the launch of GH3.

Now, it’s time for us to wait and see when GH3 will come in the market for users. After consulting with many users of GH2 I found it had few common problems which were related to photo loss from camera and they were really tensed because of the photo loss.

This is why I am explaining the method through which you can recover your lost photos from Panasonic GH3.

Steps to Recover photos from GH3

•  Download the software from www.stellarphotorecoverysoftware.com

• Run the Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery software, there are three tabs namely 'Data Recovery', 'Resume Recovery', and 'Create Image'.
• Click on start scan
• A new window appears showing all the media (card) you have attached, select the media from which you want to recover. Here you will see two options namely 'Load Image' or 'Advanced Scan'.
• In the 'Advanced Scan' feature, you have two choices:
• File List - This feature allows you to perform selective recovery of files based on their extensions. Check mark specific file types from the list.
• Select Range - This feature facilitates selecting a specific region of the storage media for recovery. Specify the sector range using the pointers.
• After selecting your choice now start scanning.
• After scanning is complete, all the recovered files are listed .Click any file to see the preview.
• Select the files, choose the destination, and click 'Recover' button to save.

These steps will help you to recover your lost photos successfully from digital media.

Expended Capacity of Flash Memory Devices – Click, Save and Sleep

DHC memory card stands for secure digital high capacity memory card. SDHC memory card is a flash memory device with data storage capacity of maximum 32 GB. If you need more data storage capacity you should go for SDXC(extended memory ). SDXC memory card maximum capacity is 2TB. According to SD association you could store 100 HD movies, 60 hours of HD recording, or 17,000 high resolution photos on a SDXC card.

As the storage capacity of flash memory devices is expending year by year , the risk of data loss is also rising. People have stopped taking the backup of the files and they keep all the data in flash memory devices.

Suppose your 2 TB SDXC card does not have any space and you replace it with a new flash memory card. After few months when you insert your old fully filled memory card into your

camera to delete few pictures from it, it shows error message “memory card locked” or “Memory card corrupted”. It means that you are going to loose your 17,000 memorable photos and uncountable memories that attached with that photos. You can't imagine your condition in that situation any more.

Now days you don't need to worry about it. You should be thankful to technology to make you life easier on every step, it doesn't matter you are in trouble because of our mistakes or bad luck.

There are lots of memory card recovery software available online as well as in market.

We should consider few parameters while choosing any memory card recovery software :

1.First check which type of memory card you have as there are lots of memory card like SD, MicroSD, SDHC, SDXC, MMC, XD, CF cards, IBM Micro Drives, Memory Stick PRO, Memory Stick DUO, Memory Stick PRO DUO, Flash Cards and Sony Memory Stick, etc. Then check the memory card recovery software that you are going to consider,will work with your memory card or not.

2.Consider the card recovery software according to your operating system as different data recovery software supports different operating system.

3.It is most important factor to check that which kind of files you want to recover, it is fine you know that you want to recover images, videos or audio files. But there are 100s of file extensions in these categories like for images JPG, JPEG, JP2, BMP, GIF, TIF, INDD, MOS, PSP, PSD, PCT, etc. For videos WMV, ASF, MOV, 3GP, MPEG, etc. For audio wav, mp3, RM, RA, etc. For camera formats NEF,CR2,ORF, etc.

4.Is the software you are purchasing is user friendly? To check this first always go with trial version then purchase if you see some fruitful results.

5.Check what customer service support, company is providing after selling product to you .

6.The software you are purchasing is with single user license of multi user license.

7.Last thing is the cost of the software that you must need to compare with other data recovery software available online.

I tried Stellar Phoenix card recovery software when i need to recover 700GB data from my sand disk HDXC flash card . It worked well for me .

Few simple steps to recover data from Stellar Phoenix card recovery software

1.Take out the card from the device and check error on it.

2.If it has any problem in card then inserts this card in a card reader and attach with a computer.

3.Download Stellar Phoenix card recovery software from the link www.sd-cardrecovery.com/free-download-sd-card-recovery-software.php

4.Run the program and specify the path of drive on which card is mounted .

5.Scan all your files like audio, video, photos.

6.Select all your files by “select option” and recover it with the help of “recovery option” in this software.

Important: if your memory card is showing any type of error, never format the Memory card. If you reformat it no software can recover the data from it and you will loose your data forever.

How I recovered lost photos and videos of National Dance Day Celebration

National Dance Day is an annual event, celebrated in United States with great pleasure and happiness. The first National Dance Day was celebrated on July 31, 2010 and it will be celebrated on last Saturday of July in every year. The National Dance Day was created by Nigel Lithogoe who was an executive producer and judge "So You Think You Can Dance television series". His aim was to promote dance education and physical fitness across US.

Last year, we took part in National Dance Day with my lovely fiancee, Joyce. I can not explain how splendid the moment was! Joyce was very happy and so was I. We were so absorbed in dancing that we did not remember how it passed 3 hours.

After finishing our parts of dance, we settled. There were many other pairs and groups who showed their style of dance. I captured many awesome photos and videos of the celebration with my Nikon D5000.

Next day, I decided to upload those photos and videos to Facebook so that my friends and relatives can watch the beautiful moments of National Dance Day Celebration.

While I tried to transfer photos &videos to computer, encountered with an error message:

“Card error”

I took the SDHC card out of card reader, cleaned it and re-inserted in reader, but same error message was shown on screen.

Desperately, I called my friend who is a Computer Professional. He asked me not to worry and download a card recovery utility from Internet.

I research on internet for some good card recovery software as suggested by my friend. I tried various one, installing the free version and checked for lost photos. Some software recovered few photos but one software was very powerful which previewed all my photos. This was really exciting and a give thanks to Stellar photo Recovery Software which recovered my lost photos.