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How to Fix Write Protection Errors on a USB Stick

Jun 182013

Sometimes you plug you own USB stick and want to copy some files to it but it keeps prompts you “The disk is write protected. Remove the write protection or use another disk”. You never thought this would happen as it’s your own trusty USB flash drive.

However, don’t worry; it is just an error message. This article will show you how to fix write protection errors on a USB stick and make your USB flash drive work again.

Firstly, you need to check the USB drive for viruses. Viruses often act in a manner that will fill your USB drive with nonsense files and this can make your USB drive respond with the Write Protected error. So every time you plug a USB drive into your computer, you should be automatically scanning it for viruses.

Secondly, you need to check the USB drive body. Some USB flash drives have a mechanical switch on them that puts them into Write Protect mode. This can be a very small slider switch which may have caught on something in your pocket or computer case. In this situation, simply move the switch to the unlocked position and try to copy files again.

Thirdly, you need to check to make sure the flash drive isn’t full. If your USB stick is full, you may also get the Write Protect error message. In this situation simple deleted some files on your USB drive.

Fourthly, Make sure that it isn’t just the file that is written protected. Right click on the file that you’re trying to write to and then click on “Properties”. Now you’ll see some options at the bottom of this window and one of them is Read-only. Make sure this box is unchecked and then click on the Apply button.

Finally, if none of these ways worked well, I am afraid you have to format your USB drive. This is an easy way to make your USB drive worked again, but the problem is the data on your USB drive will be wiped. Luckily, you can simple use Card Data Recovery to recover all your lost data after formatting.

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Things You Need to Know about Digital Camera Memory Card

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Jun 092013

As the popularity of digital photograph and the digital photography revolution, digital camera became more and more affordable for most people. The widely use of digital camera stimulus the market of digital camera memory card. This article will introduce some things you need to know about digital camera memory card. If you are considering buying a digital memory card or are using a digital memory card, this article is definitely for you.

1. Type of Cards

There are three broad and popular types of memory cards for digital cameras: Compact Flash (CS), Secure Digital (SD), and Smart Media (SM). Most consumer cameras only allow users using one type of card. However, there are also a few of the top of the line professional DSLR cameras might allow for using both Compact and SM cards at the same time.

2. Memory Capacity

Most digital camera available on the market are at least 8 megapixels and higher. So your digital camera memory card should be at least 2 GB to make sure you have enough space to store your photos. A 2 gig SD card, for example, on my 12 megapixel Canon Power shot G9 can hold about 380 large JPEG size photos, but if I choose to shoot RAW format photos, that 2 gig card can only hold about 117 photos.

3. Number of Shots

The type of shooting you do can impact how many images your memory card can hold. Your camera may tell you that the card can hold 380 images, but depending on the exposure settings and resolution sizes for each image taken, the file sizes can vary, though not significantly.

3. Keep a Backup

Here the backup we mean both keeping a spare backup digital camera memory card and keeping a backup of the data stored on your memory card. If your camera included a rudimentary small size memory card, tuck that card away in your camera bag and keep it solely as a backup. Thus if for any reason you fill up your main card(s) or forget to put your memory card back into your camera, you have the backup card with at all times.

Backing up the data stored on your memory card is also very important, because you cannot foresight when you may lost your data either because of human errors or the errors of the camera. However, if unfortunately lost all data on your digital camera memory card before backing up them, you can turn to Card Data Recovery to recover your lost data with ease.

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How to Erase a Hard Drive Completely

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May 312013

Many readers of mine troubled by the problem of how to erase their hard drive completely and asked me about it for lots of times. So I prepare to introduce you an effective way to erase your data stored on your hard drive clearly and completely.

Easing a hard drive completely doesn’t just delete files or format hard drives, because simple deletion or formation hard drives are not permanent. Deleting or formatting files can be easily recovered by a piece of third party software called Card Data Recovery.

You can just format the drive if you’re simply passing it on to a trusted family member, such as a child who needs a computer for school work. But what if you need to sell or donate the old computer, which means we need to erase hard drive completely. And “completely” is the key. Without properly removing your files, you risk security issues with your data.

How to Completely Erase Your Hard Drive?

If you really need to erase your hard drive and would not allow to recovered by some software, follow the below steps.

1. Back up your data. One thing that you need to keep in mind is that you cannot recover your files after you erase your hard drive completely. Backing up ensures that your data is still available, should you realize you’re missing a critical file or folder.

2. Insert your Windows installation disk and start up your computer. Follow the on-screen instructions to reformat your hard drive, including repartitioning and installing Windows.

3. Use third party utility software to provide greater security. These software programs write random numbers and symbols onto your drive, making the old data indecipherable. They’re best used if you’re donating an old computer. Darik’s Boot and Nuke as well as Eraser are free to download and use.

4. Launch third party software several times if it is necessary. A single process can take several hours which will be sufficient. But if you want to minimize the potential to retrieve anything from the hard disk, you can run the software multiple times to further wipe out the data.

Erasing a hard drive completely is really needed in some occasions, but don’t completely erase it without a backup.

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How to Clear a SD Card

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May 252013

SD cards are widely used in electronic devices such as cell phones, digital cameras and portable media players. It is the most popular storage medium. People have used SD cards will know that once you have saved information onto a SD card, it remains on the card. When your SD card is full and no more data can be stored on it, the data must be stored on copied to a computer or deleted before more can be stored. Following passage I will tell you how to clear a SD card from a device or using a computer.

1. Clear a SD Card from a Device

Step 1: Backup your important data stored on the SD card. If there is nothing, it is safe to clear the SD card with the device itself.

Step 2: You can either delete each item individually or clear the entire SD card at once. To delete each image individually, use the menu system specific to your device to browse each individual data item, and then delete the item.

To clear all of the data from the card, see if the device has a “Format SD Card” or “Format Card” feature. Once the SD card has been formatted by the device, none of the data on the card will be recoverable.

Step 2: Wait for the SD card to be fully formatted if using a device to format. A message will tell you that the SD card has been formatted successfully. Don’t turn the device off or attempt to remove the SD card until the device indicates it is finished formatting.

2. Clear a SD Card Using a Computer

Step 1: Power off the device in which the SD card is installed and remove the SD card from the device carefully.

Step 2: Insert the SD card into the computer’s built-in SD card slot or an external SD read/write device that can be connected to any available USB port on the computer.

Step 3: Create a new folder on the desktop of your computer screen. This can be done for both PC and Apple computers.

For the PC, right-click on the screen, then select “New” then “Folder” in the popup menu.

For Apple Mac, press and hold the following keys: “Command”, “Shift” and “N”. Name the folder “SD Backup” or any name you desire.

Step 4: Look on the desktop (PC) or in the Apple Dock (lower part of screen) for an icon that is attached to the SD card. Click on the icon to open a window that displays the contents of the SD card.

Step 5: Resize the window that displays the contents of the SD card so you can view it along with the new folder you have created on the desktop. Use the mouse to highlight all of the data and drag the contents of the SD card. Hover the mouse pointer over the new backup folder.

Step 6: Release the mouse button to drop the contents into the folder and click “Move.” This will empty the SD card without any further need for deleting or formatting.

Step 7: Click on the SD card icon and look for a menu selection labeled “Safely disconnect” or “Safely remove” and click.

Following these simple steps you can clear your SD card successfully, but there is a problem that you may delete your useful data without backup by mistake. In this occasion, you can recover card data with the help of Card Data Recovery. It can effectively recover all data you want within minutes.

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What is the Right SD Card for You?

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May 172013

Choosing a right SD card is not an easy thing for most people as hundreds of manufacturers market thousands of memory cards and devices built to SD standards in a variety of storage capacities, speed classes and three different physical sizes: SD, miniSD, and microSD.

The difference among SD, miniSD, and microSD card

SD memory cards are typically used in personal computers, video cameras, digital cameras and other large consumer electronics devices.

The microSD and miniSD cards are commonly used in smaller electronic devices like mobile phones and tablet computers. Some memory card manufacturers offer adapters allowing microSD cards to fit a traditional SD card slot. This gives you even greater versatility and flexibility to use the card in a mobile phone as well as a computer or video camera.

How to Choose the Right SD card?

To determine the right card to match your device, always consult the device’s user manual or contact the manufacturer. All memory card options are readily available in the marketplace, produced and distributed by a wide range of manufacturers, in retail outlets around the world including drug stores, electronics and computer shops and Internet sites.

1. Physical Format

The first thing to consider when getting a SD card is where you’re going to use it. Different cameras, camcorders, and smartphones use different sizes of card, and while you can start with the smallest and use adapters to work your way up, it’s generally best to use the card size intended for the device.

2. Follow your device’s user’s manual

Manufacturers produce SD memory cards in a range of memory capacities designed to fit your needs and budget. Today, products using the SDXC standard will have the greatest memory capacity and fastest performance when using Ultra High Speed (UHS) standards. Products using the SDHC and UHS standards will also enjoy the fastest performance. Your device’s user’s manual should help you select the memory card standards that are right for your device.

3. Determine the right memory capacity and speed

You should consider how you will use a memory card to determine the right memory capacity and speed choice. For cameras, consider the quality of the picture resolution of every photo, and for your MP3 player, the bit-rate required for smooth playback. Take a look at our reference chart that illustrates the various storage capacities provided by our standards.

4. SD card brand

Brand is also an important aspect that every SD card users should keep in mind. For the brand, I’d really advice you to stick with the reputable brands and never ever buy cheap, counterfeited, “brand” cards for cheap or counterfeited may easily cause card data loss. Recovery card data is a troublesome thing unless you use Card Data Recovery software. It can recover delete, lost or formatted photos, video, audio and documents in seconds with several clicks.

So far we have discussed four aspects that we need to keep in mind when choose the right SD card for your digital device. If you are considering buying a SD card, take these aspects into consideration and find right SD card.

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HTC One Gets Dual Memory Card Slot in China

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May 102013

A very common Android Smartphone feature is a microSD card slot for storage expansion. Now a good news from HTC that a version of the HTC One destined for a Chinese carrier that has a couple microSD card slot for storage expansion. This definitely makes HTC One buyers in other countries jealous.

There are a lot of people out there that were excited at the thought of getting their hands on theHTC One Smartphone. And the ability to add additional storage is a big deal for a lot of users as a larger storage space is always better than a small one.

It’s very curious that only the version of the HTC Smartphone for Chinese gets the memory card slot while versions for other countries don’t. HTC will be producing three versions of the HTC One for China that will be going to China Unicom, China Mobile, and China Telecom.

However, losing data from memory card as an unavoidable problem of using memory card still exists wither you use dual memory card or single one. We usually lost our data either by the human errors or the problem of products.

Luckily, a simple delete command on most devices just marks the space on a memory card as being available for use rather than overwriting the actual space on the card. As long as you don’t record anything new onto the card, previously deleted data should be relatively easy to recover using a card data recovery tool.

Card Data Recovery is effective memory card data recovery software. It will professionally recover the deleted or lost photos, video, and audio without moving, deleting or modifying the data on your storage devices.

Following I will tell you how to use card data recovery to recover lost memory card data.

·Install Card Data Recovery on your PC. Double click “.exe” file and follow the prompt to install it into your computer.

· Connect the device to your computer, run Card Data Recovery and click “scan” to start scanning lost data.

· Check data in the task list table and click “recovery” to start recovery. You can preview lost data on the right window before recovery.

· When you find the exact files you want to recover, click “Recover” and select a path to save recovered files.

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World’s Fastest Compact Flash Card Now Available from Toshiba

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May 042013

Speed (read speed and write speed) is always an important factor affect people choosing a Compact Flash Card especially for photographers as it determines how fast pictures are taken from and put on the Compact Flash card, which affects how quickly you can take the next photo.

Now Toshiba has introduced the World’s Fastest Compact Flash Card to the market. With Toshiba’s new speedy Compact Flash card, photographers’ lives are about to get a little more efficient. The Exceria PRO Series cards are the fastest Compact Flash memory cards currently available.

Toshiba’s new cards come in the now-standard 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB capacities. The real concerns of people are their read and write speeds. (The read speed is how long it takes to read something from the memory card. The write speed is how long it takes to save something on to the memory card).

The cards reach a write speed of 150MB/s, and a read speed of 160MB/s. The speeds are so fast, that the cards allow the capture of 1080p video without a dropped frame and they are capable of handling 4K as well. With such a high speed, it deserves to be the World’s Fastest Compact Flash Card.

The new card is released to the market in Japan in April 27^th, and will eventually release in other markets including North America at some undefined time after that. The price of this new card is still unveiled now, but 64GB Compact Flash cards with significantly lower read and writes speeds are listed at around $100 on Newegg.

However, losing data still exists in this new card like many other memory cards. We usually lost our data either by the human errors or the problem of products. Luckily, a simple delete command on most devices just marks the space on a memory card as being available for use rather than overwriting the actual space on the card. As long as you don’t record anything new onto the card, previously deleted data should be relatively easy to recover using a card data recovery tool.

So, if you want to experience the World’s fastest Compact Flash cared and want fancy memory to pair up with your fancy camera, keep an eye peeled for Toshiba’s new cards and you’ll be reading and writing faster than ever before.

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How to Recover Corrupted Memory Card

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Apr 292013

Memory card is a storage device used for storing digital information. It is widely used in digital device such as smartphones, digital cameras, pads etc. In many canses, the data on memory cards can become corrupted. This can happen for a number of reasons, including physical damage to the card, battery failure during data transmission or incorrect removal of the card from a device.

Thus how to recover corrupted memory card become one of the issues that memory card users mostly concerns. Damaged memory cards are inoperable within portable devices. The cards will be unable to store or create new data. Files previously stored on the media card may be lost due to the damage as well. To use a memory card again, you must format the drive.

Step 1: Connect the damaged memory card to your personal computer by inserting the card into the computer’s installed memory reader.

Step 2: Double-click the “My Computer” icon located on the desktop.

Step 3: View the section entitled “Devices With Removable Storage.” Your memory card will be located among that list with an “(E:)” or “(F:)” located next to it.

Step 4: Right-click directly on the damaged disc drive. Select “Format” from the list of available options.

Step 5: Click “Start” (located at the bottom of the window). Allow several minutes for the computer to completely format the memory card.

Though formatting can recover a corrupted memory card but you will lost all the data you previously stored on your memory card. Losing data from data is a painful thing especially when there are something important stored on it. Don’t freak out! The only thing you need is a Card Data Recovery; it can recover data due to deletion, formatting, memory card damage, virus attack, etc. It performs powerful scanning algorithms to scan partitions and recover every trace of data. Following I will tell you how to use Card Data Recovery in detail.

Step1: First you need to download and install Card Data Recovery on your PC. Double click “.exe” file and follow the prompt to install it.

Step2: Connect the device to your computer, run Card Data Recovery and click “scan” to start scanning lost data.

Step3: Check data in the task list table and click “recovery” to start recovery. You can preview lost data on the right window before recovery.

Step 4: When you find the exact files you want to recover, click “Recover” and select a path to save recovered files.

Following these simple steps you can easily recover lost data from the formatting card. Now your corrupted memory card works again after the formatting and with the wonderful Card Data Recovery, you get everything back from your formatting card. Nothing would please you than this!

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New WiFi SD Cards Make Instant Sharing Possible

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Apr 202013

New WiFi SD Cards Make Instant Sharing Possible

Good news from the SD card field! Instant sharing of photos and videos wirelessly is now possible with any device. Chinavasion has launched a revolutionary range of WiFi SD cards that allow any device, including MP3s and cameras, share pictures with phones, tablets and computers, regardless whether the devices themselves have wireless connectivity or not.

This new kind of SD card has a WiFi aerial built into it, thus photos or videos you take on your birthday party with your compact camera can be shared with your friend as soon as you have take them no matter how old your camera is. If it’s got a SD card slot, it can share.

And electronic components are smaller than ever now, smartphones and tablets are able to the SD card at one time. As a result, WiFi SD cards have become suitable for any type of task that requires collaboration or sharing. Moreover, with 4GB, 8 GB and 16 GB cards available, there is a WiFi SD card for every type of photographer.

The WiFi SD cards are just a taste of the cool tech now available thanks to smaller WiFi components. Products like these incredible WiFi SD cards are just a taste of the amazing nanothech that Chinavsion and other electronics companies will be able to bring out in the near future.

This new type of SD card does bring great convenience to its users for making instant sharing photos and videos wirelessly possible. But like many other SD card, it also has the potential problem that is losing card data either due to the human errors or the problem of products. Luckily in order to avoid this problem, many manufactures put data recovery program in the digital camera so that their customers can easily get back their lost data. However, not all the digital camera has this function, so what can we do if I lost SD card data? In this occasion, I highly recommend you to try to Card Data Recovery. It is an effective WiFi SD card data recovery tool. It will professionally recover the deleted or lost photos, video, and audio without moving, deleting or modifying the data on your storage devices.

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How to Repair a Physically Damaged SD Memory Card

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Apr 122013

SD card has been widely used in digital devices such as smartphones, pads, camera etc. It does convenient our life as it expand the storage space for our digital device. However, at the same time, it also causes troubles to us. Most common is losing data from SD cards.

However, there is still another problem troubles us that is the physical damage of SD cards. Being so tiny and fragile, SD cards are susceptible to physical damage. Before you throw away your broken SD card and shed tears over the information you may have lost, use a simple procedure to fix it.

The most commonly physically damage of SD cards is breaking at the locking mechanism located near the metal connections. If this is the case, then it’s an easy fix. Following passage will introduce a way to repair and recover data off an SD Card with a Broken Locking Mechanism, and repair a broken SD card with a large crack down the center or side.

Repair and recover data off an SD Card with a Broken Locking Mechanism

Step 1: Find where the locking mechanism once was, there will be a small empty groove near the metal connections.

Step 2: Place a small piece of Scotch tape over the grove to make it flush with the rest of the card. Do not tape over any of the metal connections.

Step 3: Insert the mended card into your computer and you should now be able to recover any data that was on it prior to the crack.

Repair a broken SD card with a large crack down the center or side

Step 1: Press your SD card together firmly to close the crack as much as possible.

Step 2: Apply a small piece of scotch tape around the card to keep the crack closed. Do not tape over any metal connections.

Step 3: Insert the SD card into your computer; if you still can’t recover the information, then the card must be replaced.

Usually, physical damage such as broken locking mechanism and large crack are not easy to repair. If you encounter these two damages you can try the way I talked above. However, most time you will find it doesn’t work very well.

Additionally if your memory card simply lost data without any physical damages, you can give a try to Card Date Recovery software. It can recover data such as photos, video, audio etc. due to deletion, formatting, memory card damage, virus attack in an easiest way.

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