Alpha DSLR-A230 is one of the popularly used digital cameras launched by Sony in June 2009. With its 10.2 mega pixel lens and 3x zoom, the camera gives stunning picture quality with high resolution and life like pictures. This camera models uses San Disk memory card to store all the photos taken by this camera.
For all those people who are using this Alpha DSLR-A230 model by Sony might have experienced card errors while taking photos. Later on when they have taken the photos and switch the camera to viewing mode from the shooting mode to watch the photos they have taken, to their amazement they find that there is not a single photo on the memory card of the camera.
Now the biggest question that comes before us is that where have all the photos gone after when we had captured them using the camera. When we have taken the photos, it has to be locate somewhere in the memory card. But this is not the case. Well the answer to your question lies in the memory card error message that was displayed on your camera screen when you were going to take photos. You simply ignored the error message and continued with your photography. But ignoring the card error was the biggest mistake that you made. When the camera displays card error, it means that until the error is rectified, the memory card will not be able to perform the Read and Write process. And since your memory card was unable to perform this Read and Write operation, hence the captured photos were not being stored by the memory card and you are not able to watch single photos that you captured recently.
Until and unless you fix the card error message that is displayed in the Alpha DSLR-A230 model of Sony, you would not be able to capture a single photo using this digital camera. The card error can occur due to virus problem or due to any bugs in your memory card that has infected the files and images. So, you need to scan the memory card using any good photo recovery application tool. There is a software called Memory Card Recovery that scans and removes all the virus and infected items from all kinds of memory cards like SD, CF, MMC etc. Using this tool would fix the card error problem in the SD memory card of your Alpha DSLR-A230 camera and you can then enjoy taking photos like the way earlier without any problems.