How to recover photos after 'card error' in Panasonic DMC-FX68

Panasonic DMC-FX68 is an advanced and stylish camera from the company's Lumix range of digital camera. With its ultra-slim design and excellent features, this camera vouches to attract many photography buffs. It is built around 14.1 megapixels, 5x optical zoom and 2.7 inches LCD display. Being compatible with high capacity storage cards like SD, SDHC, SDXC, this camera offers you freedom to click and store countless beautiful photos. Managing a huge bank of photos is, however, never a cakewalk. You simply cannot rely on these memory cards to retain your photos for a long time. They are prone to corruption in many instances, resulting in potential data loss. To compensate data loss in such unfortunate situations, you have two options. You can either use a valid backup or opt for a digital photo recovery software.

Sample this: You have called your friends and relatives to attend your kid's first birthday. While you are busy clicking photos of the special occasion, the camera's batteries conk out. After charging your Panasonic DMC-FX68 camera, you load the memory card to view the previously saved photos but instead receive the following error:

"Card error"

As a result of the above error, you lose access to photos. Furthermore, you cannot go ahead with shooting until you fix the above error

Cause

The above error and scenario indicates that the card has got corrupted. The corruption sneaked into the memory card of your Panasonic DMC-FX68 when its batteries died while writing the data.

Resolution

You can try the following steps to recover data from the memory card:

• Try and access the data by connecting your camera to a computer



• Try and access the data on a computer by using a card reader



• If the above steps fail to provide any respite, you have no option but to go for formatting, followed by immediate photo recovery.

Since formatting erases all the data stored on the memory card, you have to download an efficient photo recovery tool from the Internet. Such third-party utilities employ improved scanning algorithms to extract data from a formatted memory card. Moreover, by formatting the card, you make it reusable for storing more photos from your DMC-FX68 camera.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable tool which recovers lost, deleted or formatted photos from multiple camera brands including Panasonic, Sony, Kodak etc. The digital photo recovery software, available for both Windows and Mac users, recovers all photo formats such as JPEG, RAW, Exif, TIF etc.