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What To Do When Your Memory Card Fails

June 14, 2011 by Steve Berardi 2 Comments

In a previous post, I talked about a few ways to avoid memory card problems. But, even if you follow all those tips, you’re bound to get a corrupt memory card someday.

Unfortunately, technology doesn’t always work 🙁

So, what do you do when you get home with a memory card full of awesome photos and your computer refuses to read it?

Well, there’s a few simple things you can try, like using another memory card reader or another computer. But, after that, your best option is to try using some data recovery software.

As a software developer, I’ve spent a lot of time recovering data from corrupt hard drives and flash drives, so here are a few lessons I’ve learned along the way: [Read more…] about What To Do When Your Memory Card Fails

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: corrupt, data, fail, failure, flash, format, memory, memory card, photo, read, recover, recovery, restore, usb

Guide to storing and backing up your photos (Part 1 of 2)

May 3, 2009 by Matthew Fletcher 2 Comments

Photo by Matthew Field (used under the CC-Attr-SA license)
Photo by Matthew Field (used under the CC-Attr-SA license)
Like toasters, cars and space shuttles, hard disks are mechanical devices that will eventually fail. Unlike most other devices, you cannot perform a service on a hard drive to prevent future failures. That means that all your images are sitting on a device that is like a ticking time bomb. The big question is: “What happens to your images when the bomb explodes?”

Having a backup plan in place is like having a bomb shelter. It might be inconvenient for a while but you will survive to live another day. Fortunately creating a backup strategy is much easier than making a bomb shelter. 🙂 [Read more…] about Guide to storing and backing up your photos (Part 1 of 2)

Filed Under: Tips Tagged With: backing up photos, camera accessories, external hard drive, firewire, hardware, memory cards, nature photography, preserving photos, saving photos, solid state hard drives, storing photos, Tips, usb

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