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.