You would have captured many pictures and videos on some important events using your digital camera. Modern digital cameras mainly rely on storage medium like memory stick to save all taken photos and video clips from digital camera. Next time when you try to move memory stick files to personal PC, memory card files become inaccessible and may pop up error messages like "Format Now", "Unrecognized file system", etc. In such case, if you will go back to your memory stick and check its files, to your surprise you see no files in it. All your priceless files have gone from memory stick!!! It's horrible to digest the fact when you lose all your valuable images and videos. What is reason for loss of memory stick files? You need to understand that corruption is the root cause behind inaccessibility or loss of memory stick files. Even a small technical problem or human mistake can corrupt memory card making its data unreadable.
What Next? Don't think that your files are permanently deleted due to corruption of memory stick. They are still present on it, but they get disappeared from memory stick after its damage as its file allocation information is from the file table. You need to employ suitable software named memory card recovery utility to recover digital pictures, videos and songs from corrupt memory card in just few mouse clicks. This tool has interactive user interface that will let you see the restored photos, videos and even music files at the end of the recovery process. You can also utilize this application to restore deleted pictures from SDHC card, SD card, XD card, CF card and other major types of flash memory cards. Follow https://www.digitalphotorecovery.org/recover-deleted-images-from-sdhc-card.html to read more. So this software can recover digital images on Mac as well as on Windows from any device. Visit this link to learn more about Mac image recovery.
Take few precautions to prevent corruption of memory stick and loss of files:
Memory Sticks are basically formatted with FAT file system for storing media files. In the event of corruption of memory stick file system, stored files become inaccessible and error messages keep displaying on the camera or computer screen when you try to access them. There are numerous reasons for corruption of the memory stick’s file system, few of which are listed here:
Irrespective of the reason for corruption of memory stick, recover corrupted memory stick data through powerful memory card recovery tool. If files on memory stick are not overwritten with new files, you can easily recover lost images, videos and songs from it. Apart from corruption, you will be able to carry out digital photo recovery after format error, unintentional deletion or format of flash memory cards, USB drives, iPods, hard drives and so on. You can recover JPG, JPEG, TIFF, TIF, PNG, BMP, GIF and PSD image formats from corrupt Memory Stick. Click here to know the process of retrieving JPG images efficiently. Just download and install the demo version of memory card recovery utility on your PC. Follow few on screen instructions to accomplish media file recovery from memory stick. Within minutes you can see the list of retrieved files from memory stick, which will help you to analyze the obtained results to measure the capability of this software. As long as you have this memory card recovery software, you don’t need to be bothered about loss of images, videos, songs and RAW photo formats from memory stick. It works compatibly on the latest Windows and Mac operating systems.
Follow the simple steps to restore lost data from your memory stick:
Step 1: Install memory card photo recovery software on a healthy computer / laptop and connect the memory stcik to it with a USB cable or the card slot in the laptop. Launch the application by double clicking the shortcut on the desktop or selecting it from the Program Menu. As the main window appears click on the "Recover Photos" option to continue as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Main window
Step 2: : On the next window you will find "Recover Deleted Photos" and "Recover Lost Photos". Select "Recover Lost Photos" to get back deleted photos, videos and music files memory stick as displayed in Figure 2.
Figure 2: Recover Lost Photos
Step 3: After selecting the option, the memory card file recovery software will lead you to a window displaying list of connected physical and logical drives as shown in Figure 3. If the required drive/partition is not visible in the list, click on "Reload Drives" option. Select the memory stick to restore files deleted/lost from it and click on "Next" to continue.
Figure 3: Select Memory Stick
Step 4: The unique signature search can also be performed by selecting the required photo, video, audio and digital RAW image formats as shown in Figure 4 displayed below. This scanning process can also be skipped by clicking the "Skip" option.
Figure 4: Select Media File Types
Step 5: The application starts the scanning process on the selected Memory Stcik once you click "Next" or the "Skip" button. The percentage of scanning process along with the Start time, Elapsed time is displayed while scanning as shown in Figure 5
Figure 5: Scanning Process
Step 6: As the scanning completes the recovered media files are displayed. The "Data View" or the "File Type View" option allows you to view the restored files as shown in Figure 6
Figure 6: List of Recovered Media Files
Step 7: The software allows you to preview the recovered files for example photos using "Preview" option as shown in Figure 7
Figure 7: Preview Recovered Photos