Memory card corrupt? Here is a 3-step guide to recover lost photos

With the introduction of affordable and advanced digital cameras, more and more people are relying on them to capture their special moments. The moments can be retained for lifetime in the form of photos. Unfortunately, you can lose these memories if your digital camera's memory card become corrupt. A memory card can become corrupt due to an interruption in read/write process, file system damage or virus attack. In order to restore all your memorable moments, you need to recover inaccessible photos from an updated backup. However, if you cannot restore the required photos from a backup, no need to be disappointed. The good news is that as long as memory card is not physically damaged, recovering photos on your own is not a big deal. All you require to do is follow the below-mentioned card data recovery steps.

Step 1: Do not use the memory card

A memory card, just like a hard drive, only deletes the file entry and retains the content. When a file is deleted, a memory card marks the space as free which can be used by a new file. Therefore, the chances of recovering data are quite strong until a new file overwrites the content of the previous file.

You can recover lost or deleted photos before they get overwritten by using an efficient card recovery software.

Step 2: Select a good memory card recovery utility

In order to successfully recover lost photos on your own, you must use a good card recovery utility. The first and foremost thing is to find out whether a particular software is compatible with your digital camera. Now-a-days many recovery utilities are available which support various camera brands including Sony, Nikon, Canon, Olympus and more.

Secondly, make sure you download a software which is read-only and risk-free.

Step 3: Execute recovery task

Once you download a right recovery tool, start the recovery process after going through the help manual. Almost all recovery utilities available on the Internet are quite easy-to-use and incorporate a simple and interactive graphical user interface. Hence, you need not acquire any technical knowledge in order to retrieve data from a memory card.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable and do-it-yourself utility which recovers lost or deleted photos from a range of memory cards including SD, MMC, XD, SDHC, CF and more. The memory card recovery software is available in two versions for both Windows and Mac operating systems.