Resolving 'Memory Stick Error' of your Sony Cyber Shot Camera

Sony is always famous for its innovative technologies in its all products. It is one of the leading brands in the field of electronic gadgets. From mobile phones, walk mans to its high class digital cameras. Sony Cyber-shot is one of the best digital cameras around the World. However, in digital cameras all the captured images and videos are saved on its memory card.

Therefore, any damage to it can lead you in the loss of your favorite images or videos. Although by taking some general precautions, one can stay away from these losses. But, sometimes due to unwanted situations or mistakes we loss some of our very dear images, videos, or some other multimedia files.

At this stage one is recommended to go for photo recovery. However, in the presence of updated backup one can recover the lost photos very easily but in the absence or inaccessibility of it, using third-party digital photo recovery software is the only choice. The camera photo recovery software uses high-ended algorithms to recover lost, deleted, or formatted data from all the storage devices like camera memory card, external hard disks, laptops, desk tops, pen drives, CD, DVD, and USB drives.

Let us discuss a real life case. It was your child's first day to school and you wanted to capture those moments on your Sony Cyber-shot.
Suddenly, your camera throws this error:

"Memory Stick Error"

Cause:

A digital camera saves pictures either on memory card (memory stick) or on internal card memory. Any picture clicked by it, is saved through 'Write process'. For any Write or Read process, the contact between the memory card (or memory stick) and camera should be proper.

However, this contact can brake due to any of the reasons:

• Pulling out the memory stick without switching the camera off.
• Due to low battery of the camera, it is unable to detect memory stick
• Improper insertion of memory stick
• The memory card or memory stick is not formatted according to the camera.

Resolution:

The solution of the above errors are:

• Remove and reinsert the card properly on digital camera's memory slot. If this resolution does not work, then:
• Re-format the card. Formatting deletes all the data stored on the card or stick. So, if you have an updated backup then your data will very easily be recovered otherwise you need to use a digital camera photo recovery software.

The digital camera photo recovery software is able to recover lost, deleted, or formatted photos, music, and videos from Windows operating system based computers.

Photo Recovery Software is one such software which is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2003, and 2000.

How to recover lost pictures from Fujifilm FinePix J38 camera

Fujifilm FinePix J38 camera is a 12.2 megapixels & 3x Optical Zoom camera with high resolution of 12.2 megapixels. The camera has 3x optical zoom that helps you to take amazing pictures from quite long distance. Its user friendly features have made it popular among both professional and home users. With 10 MB memory space, the camera supports SD and SDHC card.

However both physical and logical crash of the memory card of the camera can lead to major photo loss. While a corruption resulting from the physical damage of the memory card requires intervention of the experts of the photo recovery services, the corruption of the memory card due to logical error can be overcome by formatting of the memory card.

A formatted memory card does return to its prior working condition, but, it loses all the photos that are previously saved on the card. If you have a proper backup, you can restore the photos from it. But in absence of an updated backup, you can recover the data by the use of a Mac Photo Recovery Software. Consider, if you are using a Mac system.

Suppose you have gone for a birthday party of your best pal, who is moving out of the country in next two three days. This is the last party with your best friend. You carried your Fujifilm FinePix J38 camera along with you and snapped some most memorable moments on the camera. Back home when toy accessed your card of your camera to view the pictures, you got the error message that reads: “card error”. You reinserted the card but the same error prompted again.

Causes:

The causes of such logical error message are as follows:

• Corruption in the memory card
• Interrupted read/write operation
• Abrupt camera shutdown
• Improper memory card removal
• Major virus or Trojan attack

Resolution:

You can recover your photos that has become inaccessible due to “card error” message is by formatting the card. Actually when you format a memory card, it creates a new file system and permanently wipes off the previous file system.

This results in the inaccessibility of the photos whose details were saved in the older file system. But this does not imply that the pictures in the memory card are permanently wiped off. Until new photo is written in to the memory card, the older photos are still intact in the card. Third-party mac photo recovery software scans and extracts all inaccessible and deleted images from your corrupted memory card.

Picture Recovery from Memory Cards that are Corrupt

Professionals such as photographers or digital studio owners take special care in maintaining the memory cards to be used in thier cameras. As their job is dependent on the photos, they make sure that nothing untoward happens which leads to their deletion. Anyone can know these steps for taking care of their photos that are personally very dear. Despite the precautionary steps, one can never count on accidents or unforeseen circumstances which cause deletion of pictures to stay away. Specialized photo recovery tools may be required in such situations. Some software can retrieve the pictures from any type of storage media.

The best thing for you would be that you never ever need photo recovery software and the precautionary steps prove good enough. In case of any emergency only that such options should be used.

Photos can be lost due to:-

• Taking out the memory card while camera is not switched off yet.
• Accidental formatting of the card or deletion of data.
• Damage or corruption of the storage media in which the photos are saved.
• Switching off digital camera during the write process.
• Corrupted file system.

Besides being cautious of these human errors, some more ways of maintaining the memory card are:-

• Using memory card case for keeping the card after removal from digital camera.
• Abide by the 5 seconds rule when taking out the memory card from digital camera, i.e. wait for 5 seconds after a message of the camera which says you can.
• Don't format the memory card in the computer.
• Use many low storage capacity memory cards rather than one that stores all your photos. This is basically an “all eggs in one basket” kind of tip.
• When buying memory cards, choose those that are turned out by the camera companies or ones with good customer ratings on online retail websites.

You may also simply use third-party digital picture recovery software for getting back your lost photos from any type of storage media and not just memory cards.