Pictures Inaccessible post Immediate switching off the Canon A470
The most common instance of this is when you immediately switch off your camera after taking pictures. The next time you turn it on, you cannot access any of the pictures saved in your memory card . One encounters a similar kind of problem when trying to upload pictures from the camera's memory card to the computer after turning the camera off abruptly.
Cause:
The cause behind the inaccessibility of your pictures is that you switched off the camera right after clicking pictures. When we click photos, the camera writes them to the memory card. This process takes time depending on the size of the file being written. During this process if the camera is switched off, the process is interrupted and the card then gets corrupted. Photos thus become inaccessible.
Note: Always switch off your camera after few minutes of clicking the pictures.
Resolution:
To resolve the issue, you will need to format the card. Format the card in the camera itself. Then use a Photo Recovery Software to recover all your lost photos. Digital Photo Recovery can easily be done using a trusted third-party tool, the selection of which should be done carefully and cautiously.
These software scan the storage media and recover all the lost information from within. It makes use of the fact that data is stored on multiple locations in the hard drive. Therefore even when the drive is formatted, specially designed software can recover the data from the hard drive.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a Digital Photo Recovery tool which can salvage data from corrupted or formatted partitions. The software supports almost all popular proprietary RAW file formats such as CR2 and CRW (Canon), NEF (Nikon), SR2 (Sony), etc. It has an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface (GUI) which enables even amateurs to recover data with ease.