Sunday, May 23, 2010

Performing Memory card recovery after it corrupts in Canon EOS 7D digital camera

In this electronic world, where data transfer has become so crucial, memory cards are a boon for us. Memory cards are simply electronic chips that transfer their digital files from one device to another. Speaking of devices, memory cards can be used in digital cameras, cellular phones, gaming consoles, camcorders, portable media players, etc.

Thus memory cards have become completely irreplaceable in our lives and are gaining more and more importance each day. Memory cards come in the following flavors: Secure Digital Cards (SD), Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC), Multimedia Card (MMC), MMC micro, etc.

A memory card just like any other digital media is often prone to data loss due to card corruption. Although, the memory card has a lot of storage space, but still you cannot rely upon them for permanent or long term data storage. Thus you must maintain a proper back up of your memory card. However, if the backup is not available, you can deal with this situation by using a Memory Card Recovery software to recover all your lost data.

Suppose you are using your Canon EOS 7D camera and you see the below mentioned error message on the camera’s LCD screen:

“The card cannot be used”
Or
“Card cannot be accessed. Reinsert/change card or format card with camera.”

In this scenario, the memory card’s data becomes inaccessible. Not only this, you are also not able to click any more video or images. This simply occurs due to memory card corruption.

Some of the reasons for memory card corruption are as follows:

  • virus contamination
  • while the camera is still working, termination of read/write operations
  • improper handling of camera
The easiest way to deal with the memory card corruption is to use the backup. In case the backup is not available, you can format the memory card with camera. One drawback of formatting the memory card is that all your previously stored data is lost. You can successfully recover the data from formatted, or corrupted memory card by using Memory Card Recovery software.

You can recover the data using the Memory Card Recovery software in three simple steps. The steps to recovering data are as follows:

1.Download the Memory Data Recovery software from internet

2.Connect the camera to your system

3.Execute the application.

One important feature of the Memory Card Recovery software is that it keeps the actual data intact, and does not make any changes to it. Another feature is that it almost recovers each small bit of data. This software is able to recover data from other storage media too.

Apart from the other features, the Memory Card Recovery software has a very user friendly interface that helps even a layman to do memory card recovery.