How to Recover Lost Photos from Corrupted Memory Card

• Causes of Memory Card Corruption
• How to Recover Lost Photos from a Corrupted Memory Card

Part 1Causes of Memory Card Corruption

If you haven't backed up your files lately, a corrupted memory card can put your precious photos in jeopardy. To prevent your memory card from being corrupted, you should know the reason as to why it's corrupted and how you can avoid it. Read on and you will be able to understand.

Part 2How to Recover Lost Photos from a Corrupted Memory Card

If you want to repair the corrupted memory card, the method, which is mostly used is to format the card. The bad news is formatting erases all the contents; while the good point is that you can use your card again. If you don't plan on buying a new memory card, you can get the content back from your corrupted memory card. All you need is a photo recovery program.

My recommendation: Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac.

Try the free trial version of this corrupted memory card recovery software now,link provided below.

Note: Remember to save the scanned results if you're going to recover the found files later, to prevent any data loss.

Both the photo recovery software enables you to:

» Recover deleted photos from memory cards
» Recover lost photos from memory cards
» Recover formatted photos from memory cards
» Recover photos from inaccessible, unreadable, damaged, or defective memory cards

Step 1 : Connect your corrupted memory card to the computer

Get started by connecting your corrupted memory card to the computer with a card reader, or you can directly connect your camera with a USB cable. Once connected, launch the program and follow the next simple steps to perfrom the corrupted memory card data recovery.

Step 2: Select the typa of files

You can select the specific file type to start recovering lost data from memory card. Go to select the option "All File Type".

Step 3 : Scan your corrupted memory card

Select the memory card and click on the "Start" button to begin scanning. If the quick scan can't find your lost files, you can go to scan again with deep scan which can help you search more files from memory card.

Step 4 : Preview and recover photos from corrupted memory card

Once the scan ends, you can preview the recoverable photos one by one to decide which ones you want to recover. Then, select those photos and click the "Recover" option to perform a corrupted memory card recovery. Save the recovered photos on your computer.

Note: Don't save the recovered data on your corrupted memory card. Find another place for it like your computer or another external disk, for safety purposes.