Lost videos to ‘Memory Card Error’? Not anymore with this tool!

Recording videos has become a kid’s play, thanks to the revolution brought by digital cameras and camcorders. A vacation is never complete unless you record the thrilling videos of your experience. And sharing videos with colleagues, friends and acquaintances is always a fun thing in presence of so many cool Internet tools.

In order to share the videos over Internet, one has to copy them from the camcorder to a computer which is done by connecting both the devices. However, the file transfer can stop if the memory card gets corrupted due to the camcorder getting switched off suddenly. And in case of corruption, one can recover videos only by using a video recovery tool.

As a practical case, you may encounter an error while trying to repeat the video transfer from camcorder to your system which was earlier halted after the batteries conked out suddenly.

“Memory card error”

The occurrence of the above error indicates the corruption has crept in the card. As a result, you won’t be able to access the videos on the memory card, forget transferring them.

Cause:

The memory card getting corrupted is not a peculiar thing as it happens too often when there is an interruption in the read/write process. A memory card’s file system can get damaged in cases given below:

  • Switching off the computer while the transfer process is on
  • Switching off the camera/camcorder before the data is completely written
  • Removing the card from a card reader while the files are getting transferred to the computer
  • Using a memory card in two different cameras/camcorders
  • Taking pictures or videos with low batteries

Resolution:

Reformatting the memory card in the camcorder will fix the corruption. The videos, which will get erased during the re-formatting, can be retrieved by using a video recovery software.

There are plenty of video recovery tool available these days which promise successful recovery in simple and fast steps. These third-party applications are capable of salvaging lost/formatted/deleted data from a range of storage media.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a trusted video recovery application which recovers videos from damaged or corrupted storage media like memory cards, memory sticks, digital cameras, Windows & Mac hard drives (mac video recovery), Zip disks, Mini disks, CD, DVD, USB drive, and other removable media. This software supports all video formats including AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV, MP4, 3gp etc.

Recovering Lost Videos from Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 Camcorder

Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder is a high-definition camcorder with hybrid video recording capability on both Memory Stick Pro and DVD. With extraordinary imaging quality, this camcorder has all the capabilities of being a professional choice and acceptable among users desiring good quality videos.

Video data loss in Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder can result from:

  • Deleting one or more videos from Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder by mistake.
  • Turning off the camcorder or ejecting the memory device before videos could be completely written to its DVD or Memory Stick Pro. Such events cause interrupted write operations and cause the storage device to get corrupt.
  • Shooting videos when the batteries of Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder are conking out.
  • Using DVD or Memory Stick Pro on various devices

Corruption of DVD or Memory Stick Pro makes videos inaccessible and they cannot be played in the Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder or on any computer. However, you can reformat the corrupted storage device and rebuild it, but on the other hand, this causes data loss too. All the videos that are stored on the DVD or Memory Stick Pro will be deleted. To restore them, the best and safest solution is to use your last backup.

There are situations when a Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder may not have any suitable backup that can be used to restore the deleted or lost videos. In such circumstances, a Video Recovery Software can help.

Any Video that is deleted from DVD or Memory Stick Pro of Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder is actually not deleted. The camcorder just removes its entry, while marking the space as available for other files. So until this space is re-occupied by a different file, a Video Recovery Software can recover and restore it to a safe location.

Any Video that is deleted from DVD or Memory Stick Pro of Sony Handycam DCR-DVD650 camcorder is actually not deleted. The camcorder just removes its entry, while marking the space as available for other files. So until this space is re-occupied by a different file, a Video Recovery Software can recover and restore it to a safe location.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an advanced utility designed for recovering lost videos from camcorders, DVD, memory sticks, CD, hard disks and other storage media. Available for both Windows and Mac OS X, this Video Recovery Software supports video file formats like, MOV, AVI, ASF, WMV, WMA, M4P, MIDI, and more.

How To Recover Lost Videos from Canon Vixia HG20 Camcorder?

The Canon Vixia HG20 is a splendid HD (High Definition) camcorder from Canon. It is reasonably simple to use out of the box and it looks pretty good as well. It is almost similar to the Vixia HF11 of the company, however on the contrary recording mostly to the internal flash storage, it records videos to the hard drive.

The hard drive storage is very prone to failure and you may lose your valuable videos if it fails due to any reason. In such cases, you need to use reliable Video File Recovery tools.
The stored video files on this camera hard drive is quite volatile and may get lost because of numerous reasons. The causes of the video loss may include storage media corruption, formatting of the camera hard drive or flash memory, files are accidentally deleted, virus infection, and many alike. Nevertheless of the cause of video loss, you need to get your videos recovered, as the loss cannot be accepted at any cost.

As a practical example of data loss, you may encounter problems while trying to connect your Canon Vixia HG20 to your Microsoft Windows Vista operating system-based computer. The Windows Vista cannot recognize the device and access videos from it. This behavior of this digital camcorder makes all your video files inaccessible.
Grounds of the issue
The major reason behind this issue can be corruption or damage to the storage media of camera, either camera hard drive or flash memory. Corruption may occur to the system file, logical structure and file system of the storage media. Due to the same, camcorder operating system cannot locate stored video files and computer operating system cannot recognize the device.
Resolution
In order to work around this issue, you need to replace the damaged file system, system files, and data structures with new one. It needs hard drive and flash memory card formatting.

Although formatting is helpful to work around most of such issues, but it also has a downside. It removes all the files from storage media and cause severe video loss situations. In such cases, Video Data Recovery becomes essential.
You can easily recovery lost video files using Video Recovery Software. They use high-end scanning techniques to ensure complete recovery. The Video Recovery Tools are totally easy and safe to use.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is the most advanced and efficient solution to successfully recover lost videos. The software is available for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems in two different versions. It works in all cases of video loss and can recover video files of all file formats.