Memory cards are the extensively used compact flash drives in various digital media devices like digital cameras, mobile phones, camcorders and many more. Based on digital media device requirements, popular brands of memory card manufacturers like SanDisk, Transcend, Sony and others have developed various types of memory cards like SD card, xD card, memory stick, etc. Majority of the memory cards use FAT file system for file manipulation. Generally users prefer memory cards to store their media files like photos videos and audio files. Digital cameras use memory cards to store captured images.
There are times in which flash memory cards get corrupt due to various reasons. In order to use the corrupted card it is mandatory to format. In case if the corrupted memory card has some important files, the chances of losing such files are more. Since flash cards commonly deal with media files photos and videos, losing favorite photos is really horrible, because deleted or lost media files cannot be re-created as like other digital files but they can be recovered. With the help of some recovery utility you can recover pictures from corrupt memory card at your finger tips.
Prior to discussing how to recover photos using recovery utility, it is better to know how memory card get corrupt, which might serves as precautionary measures to avoid flash memory card corruption in future.
Reasons for memory card corruption:
- Since memory card is a compact removable storage drive, users often use the same card in different devices. Sometimes using same card in multiple devices leads to some file system error which finally makes your card inaccessible.
- Sometimes users remove their memory card when the media device is turned on. In case if the card is removed abruptly when there is a read or write process is in progress the chances of card getting corrupt are more.
- There are many other reasons like file system damage, improper plug and play procedure, etc.
No matter how the card is corrupted, with the help of recovery utility it is very simple to recover data from corrupted flash memory cards. Whenever a photo or other media file gets delete or lost from memory card, it will not be erased instantly from the card. Only the pointer which points to the location of file will be removed and space marked as free but the actual data still exist on the stored sector until it is overwritten with new file. Such data can be easily recovered with the help of recovery software.
One such advanced memory card recovery utility which is specially developed for Mac operating system is Remo Recover (Mac) – Media Edition. This tool facilitates you to restore photos and other media files from formatted and corrupted memory cards. Using this tool you can get back all your deleted and lost media files from different storage devices along with their file names. This is a universal binary application which supports both Intel and PowerPC Mac platforms.
You can download the free demo version of this software to evaluate the chances of recovery.