How to fix corrupt MMC plus card and perform picture recovery

The Multimedia Card (MMC) plus is used as a storage media for various portable devices like cellular phones, PDAs, digital cameras, camcorders, digital audio players.

These cards come with significant changes than the original MMC in order to compete with SD cards. The new features include support for running at higher speeds and four or eight-bit-wide data bus. Despite many advantages, these cards are also prone to corruption and render pictures inaccessible from a digital camera.

In such situations, you can restore pictures from a clean and updated backup copy. However, if you do not have a backup or if it doesn't yield the expected results, you need to opt for professional picture recovery software. Such tools can be easily downloaded from the Internet.



Prevention better than cure

According to the above adage, it is important to adopt effective measures in order to protect yourself from unfortunate photo loss events. Since MMC plus cards often render photos inaccessible in event of corruption, it is wise to handle it properly.

In order to avoid corruption issues, you can follow the below-mentioned precautionary measures:

• Do not remove an MMC plus card from a digital camera without switching it off
• Do not remove the MMC plus card from the card reader while transferring pictures to a computer
• Do not click pictures on low batteries
• Do not abruptly remove the MMC card from digital camera while its content are open on a computer
• Do not use an MMC plus card with different host devices
• Do not format an MMC card in another camera and many other

Fixing corruption and picture recovery

If you come across a data loss scenario even after observing the aforementioned precautions, do not worry. You can fix a corrupt MMC plus card by formatting it again, followed by deleted picture recovery.

Though, formatting fixes the corruption issue and makes the MMC plus card reusable, you must restore the lost data by using appropriate picture recovery software.

Such tools employ improved scanning algorithms and recover lost or deleted pictures from almost all storage media, irrespective of the data loss cause. But, make sure you use read-only software which doesn't modify the original data.

Picture Recovery is a user-friendly application which recovers lost or deleted pictures and other multimedia files from various memory card types including MMC plus, SD, SDHC, CF etc. This deleted picture recovery application is available for both Windows and Mac users.