SD Card Recovery Tools

Secure Digital (SD) cards are flash memory cards which are used in various portable devices like digital cameras, camcorders, video game consoles, netbook computers, PDAs and more. Since they offer high capacity data storage and better transfer speeds, they are the favored choice among other memory cards. However, at times, a host device (camera) may refuse to recognize an SD card and would prompt you to format it. This happens when the file system of the SD card gets damaged. In such situations, an SD card renders data inaccessible and, thus you have to rely on an updated backup. If you don't have a backup or if it is corrupt, you must use an Picture Card Recovery software and restore the lost data efficiently.

Sample this: You have around 70-80 pictures of a family function stored on an SD card. When you insert the SD card in your digital camera to view those pictures, you may receive the following error message:

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

As a result of the above error message, you may not be able to access the pictures and videos stored on the SD card.

Cause

Your digital camera could have failed to read the card due to the following reasons:

• If you have not formatted the SD card to make it usable in your camera.
• If the file system of the SD card is damaged or corrupt

Resolution

You can observe the following workarounds in order to resolve the problem:

• In order to make it compatible with your digital camera, you must format it
• To isolate the file system corruption issue, you must format the SD card in your camera

As seen, since both the workarounds involve formatting the SD card, it is necessary for you to get hold of an SD card recovery software. You can use the tool to recover the lost data after formatting the SD card.

An Picture Card Recovery utility can be downloaded from the Internet. Being equipped with simple and graphical user interface, these tools do not even require any prior technical knowledge.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an efficient software which recovers lost or deleted photos, videos and other multimedia files from a range of memory cards including SD, SDHC, MMC, CF etc. The SD card recovery utility, available for both Windows and Mac, recovers all file formats.