Photos captured with Kodak digital camera are stored on compact flash card, which is subject to failure and corruption just like any other memory card. Very common problem that occur time and again is corruption in CF card while read/write process is going on, besides reasons may be varying and it primarily includes virus attacks from system, improper use, mishandling card, switching the camera off immediately after taking photos or taking the storage card and many alike. Each of the above causes ultimately leads to inaccessibility of photos although photos are present on the card.
In such situation very use of camera is not possible, neither can you take photos or view the previously taken ones, also no photos are shown on connecting the camera to system rather error messages like” card requires formatting “, “memory card error keeps on displaying continuously as photos could not be recognized by the card due to damage in file system or corruption of file header or node.
This issue can only be resolved by formatting the card which is indeed simple to do but will erase all data which needs to be restored back with backup or with digital photo recovery software.
Formatting is done as follows
- From file menu select format
- Click Ok format card screen will be show,
- Once again click on OK and card will start getting formatted.
With these all photo are lost and your card is free of errors and now its time to restore photos so you can choose from mac photo recovery and digital photo recovery software according to your system. It will extensively scan the drive/card and extract photos from there showing them in preview window, just check the box in front of the photos to be recovered and click on recover button.