| Commonly known by its short name SD card, a | | | | corruption and inaccessibility, meaning that your |
| Secure Digital card is a non-volatile memory card | | | | photos could not be retrieved. |
| format popularly used as storage media for | | | | But, rest assured that safety of your photos can |
| portable electronic devices like digital cameras, | | | | be ensured. To do this, first reformat your card. |
| digital camcorders, handheld computers, PDAs, | | | | Do not worry though this will delete whatever |
| media players, mobile phones, and GPS receivers. | | | | data the card has on it, because reformatting |
| While its convenient utility is solid, an SD card | | | | makes the corrupt, inaccessible card usable again |
| because of its logical pliability is prone to damage | | | | for more than recovery of your photos. You |
| or corruption due to scores of human and | | | | should not use this reformatted card to write any |
| mechanical errors. Damage or corruption of the | | | | new data on or take pictures now, lest your |
| card will eventually cause loss of your data stored | | | | photos will most probably get overwritten. |
| on it, say your recent photos. If you cannot | | | | Overwritten data can never be recovered. Now, |
| recover these photos through data backup | | | | load your card on your camera or the card |
| process, an inbuilt facility on your computer or | | | | reader, and run a data backup process. It may |
| recent models of cameras, you will need to you | | | | recover your photos. |
| certain powerful photo recovery software. | | | | If this simple facility is not available on your |
| Suppose, you have accidentally stumbled on your | | | | camera, or if it, even when available both in your |
| USB cable kicking the plug off its slot, or switched | | | | computer and camera, cannot help, you need to |
| your camera off, or you have ignorantly removed | | | | use some specifically developed digital photo |
| the card from your camera or card reader, the | | | | recovery software. Photo recovery utilities are |
| card accidentally popped out of your camera or | | | | embedded with highly advanced methods and |
| reader while data transfer or read/write process | | | | algorithms to cater to complex digital photo |
| is in progress. These mistakes will cause certain | | | | recovery needs of the time. |
| logical damage to your card resulting in its | | | | |