Memory cards are most commonly used by digital cameras to store large number of photos. Since they are able to store your precious photographs, you need to use branded memory card. Now, the memory cards have larger storage capacities ranging from 128MB to 256GB. You can transfer your photos from memory card to computer using card readers. Card readers are available for all different memory cards like CF (Compact Flash) card, Smart Media card, XD (Extreme Digital) card, which are manufactured by different manufacturers such as Kingston, Lexar, Transcend, Sony, Adata, Patriot etc. Whereas, most of the digital cameras uses SanDisk branded memory cards to store photos. Now, SanDisk SDHC memory cards are also able to provide high quality movie watching experience on the new cell phones, which are Android based. Generally, all memory cards support FAT32 file system. The files that are stored on memory cards are organized and managed by using file system. Sometimes, instead of deleting single photo, you may accidentally format your memory card resulting in loss of photos. Because, when you format your memory card, all the photos stored on your memory card gets deleted. But, no need to worry, you can use reliable recovery tool like SanDisk memory card recovery tool to recover lost or deleted photos from memory card.
Sometimes, file system corruption may also results in loss of photos. Because, file system itself is responsible to organize and manage photos that are stored in your memory card. If file system gets corrupted then you may encounter memory card errors like “Unrecognized file format”, “Card error”, “Card not initialized” etc. The most common reasons for file system corruptions are malware or virus attack, improper shut down while transferring images to computer etc. When file system gets corrupted, you may not be able to access photos from memory card resulting in photo loss. Sometimes, instead of viewing the photos, you may accidentally delete them resulting in loss of photos.
Some memory cards have a “write-protect” tab, you can slide this tab to avoid accidental deletion of photos. Once you slide this tab, you are not able to record, delete or perform any action over memory cards. When you want to use that memory card, you can simple slide that tab back to its original position for saving photos. Don’t format memory card in computer to avoid memory card corruption. Take backup of important photos regularly so that you can restore photos back if they have been deleted. If you have not taken backup then you can use proficient recovery tool to recover lost or deleted photos from memory card.
Remo Recover (Windows) Media Edition is able to recover deleted or lost photos from different types of memory cards like SD, CF, MMC, XD cards etc. This software also supports different brands of memory cards like SanDisk, Kingston, Sony, Lexar etc. Along with photos, this software is also able to recover and restore deleted or lost audio files, video files and all other types of files. This software provides preview option, where you can preview recovered photos. You can download free demo version to preview recovered photos.