SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) cards are flash memory cards with a minimum capacity of 4Gb. They are designed for devices which are compatible with SDHC 2.00 specification. The demand of these cards has soared due to the advent of affordable and advanced high-resolution point-and-shoot digital cameras. Consumers can get better performance from their digital cameras by using SDHC cards which not only offer high-capacity storage but better data transfer speed. Though SDHC cards are considered reliable and safe storage media for pictures, they tend to become corrupt under many circumstances. Due to corruption, a digital camera using SDHC card may throw several errors. Moreover, after corruption, the pictures stored on a card also become inaccessible. Deleted picture recovery in such situations can be performed either by using an updated backup or appropriate recovery solution.

As a practical case, you may encounter the following error while you try and view pictures saved in the SDHC card of your digital camera:

“Memory card error”

As a result of the above error, you end up losing access to the photos of your special events. Furthermore, the SDHC card cannot be used to click and save more photos until you fix the error.

Cause
You may witness the above error on the LCD screen of your camera if your card has got corrupted. SDHC cards can become corrupt owing to reasons like:

1.Interruption in read/write process
2.File system damage
3.Virus attacks.

Resolution

To fix corruption and to make an SDHC card reusable, all you need to do is format it in your digital camera. Since formatting replaces all the old entries from an SDHC card, it becomes essential for you to use an efficient deleted picture recovery software immediately.

A photo recovery utility can successfully recover deleted photos from a formatted SDHC card if you refrain from storing new data onto the card. If you store new data on the card before retrieving lost photos, it is very much possible that you may end up over-writing the previous content. In such situations, it becomes almost impossible for any utility to do the recovery job.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an exceptional utility which recovers lost or deleted photos from various types of memory cards including:

1.SDHC
2.SD
3.MMC
4.XD
5.MMC plus etc.

This software is available for both Windows and Mac users, incorporate a simple and interactive graphical user interface to glide you through the recovery process.