Powerful mechanical products, such as digital cameras, video cameras, and camcorders allow you to capture, manipulate, and store videos in a digital format. The storage medium used by most of these mechanical devices is a memory card. There are various types and forms of memory cards available in the market, such as, SD, SDHC, MMC, and CF. Corruption or damage in these storage media can occur at any point of time, resulting into inaccessibility of videos and other multimedia files. These are the situations when an updated backup allows you to restore the data. But, with backup file unavailability or falling short to restore the desired videos, the only option left is to use a third-party Video Recovery Software.

Corruption of a memory card always results into an error message, few of the most common are mentioned below:

  • Memory card could not be read
  • Memory card could not be recognized
  • Memory card could not be used
  • Card is not formatted

Outcome for all the above error messages is the same – inaccessibility of videos. In addition, these error message do not allow the user to save any new video in the memory card.

Cause:

The root cause for all the above error message is corruption of memory card, primarily due to interrupted read/write operation, virus infection, human errors, and improper use of the camera.

Resolution:

All the above listed error messages can be resolved by formatting the memory card with the camera. It deletes all the previous videos and other media files and allows you to capture and store new videos.

However, if in case you need the formatted multimedia files, you can use a Video Recovery application.

These Video Recovery tool use effective scanning methods to recover all formatted multimedia files (including videos). Such recovery tools can be easily purchased from the Internet. The recovery process of such utilities is completely non-destructive, as the original data remains untouched. These tools ensure complete recovery in three simple steps-downloading the software, scanning the formatted media, and saving the recovered videos.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a wonderful Video Recovery Software that recovers all kinds of multimedia files. The recovery utility comes with a well-constructed help manual, that enables any user to perform recovery. Designed for both Windows and Mac OS X, the read-only tool supports almost all file formats, like ASF, WMV, AVI, MOV etc.