'check Card' Error In Panasonic Sdr-s100 And Video Recovery

The Panasonic SDR-S100 is the world's first 3 CCD Secure Digital recording camcorder. The camcorder features 2.8 inches LCD display, 10x optical zoom and optical image stabilization. Billed as a rugged camcorder, this model is extremely small and stylish. With 2GB SD card, it can hold up to 25 minutes of video at the highest quality. You can click number of high resolution videos by using SD cards with high data storage capacity. Though, these cards keep the videos safe and sound, there can be some exceptions. In event of SD card corruption, your Panasonic camcorder can throw some weird errors, resulting in data inaccessibility. To tackle such data loss situations, you must have an appropriate backup readily available. However, in absence of a clean and updated backup, you should grab a professional video recovery software.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you try to transfer some videos from your Panasonic SDR-S100 camcorder to your computer. The card reader fails to recognize the card and when you reinsert the card in your camcorder, you receive the following error message:

"Check card"

As a result of the error message, all your videos have become inaccessible.

Cause

The above error could be witnessed in the following conditions:

If you are using an incompatible card reader
Or if your camcorder's SD card is corrupt (Memory card corruption can take place if you do not handle it properly. Any interruption in read/write process can inflict damage on a card's file system, leaving data inaccessible.)

Resolution

You must observe the following steps in order to overcome the issue and perform video recovery:

Use a card reader which is compatible with SD cards
If an SD card is corrupt, you must fix it by reformatting it in your Panasonic SDR-S100 camcorder only. In order to compensate the data loss, you must download a third-party video recovery software from the Internet.

Such tools employ improved scanning algorithms and help you recover lost or deleted videos from SD cards with ease. Besides SD cards, such recovery tools are capable of recovering data from other memory card variants including MMC, CF, XD and others.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a do-it-all software which recovers lost or deleted videos from various digital camcorders like Panasonic, Canon, Sony etc. Available in two versions for both Windows and Mac users, this video recovery application recovers all video formats (AVI, MOV, ASF, WMV and MP4).

By: Roland Spence

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Roland Spence has 6 Years of Experience in the Software Technology researching on video recovery software.