Resolving “Error30: Format CF card before use” in Sony Cyber-Shot DSC R1

Posted: Sep 10, 2009 |Comments: 0 |

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC R1 is a fully furnished digital camera that possess 10.3 Mega pixel of resolution. With its 5x optical zoom feature, the camera is capable of delivering excellent image quality. The pictures shot by Sony Cyber-Shot R1 are stored in Compact Flash (CF) memory card or memory stick. Corruption in the CF memory card can be caused by virus infection, file system damage, etc which lead to inaccessibility of data stored in the media card. Such situations demand the need for a valid and recent backup to restore the lost data. But if there is no backup for your data, then you will need to use a professional Photo Recovery Software to systematically recover your lost data.

Take a practical example- when you are trying to view the pictures stored in the CF memory card of Sony Cyber-Shot R1 camera, you may encounter the error message below:

"Error30: Format CF card before use"

After the occurrence of the above error message, the files stored in the CF memory card becomes inaccessible.

Cause:

The above error message mainly occurs when there are multiple files or folders in the memory stick or CF card, which means that the memory card was not formatted before the firmware update file was transferred.

Resolution:

To resolve this issue, and to store new pictures and files in the CF card, you need to format the memory card. When you format the memory card, all the data stored in the card gets deleted. Thus, to recover your lost data completely, you need to use a powerful Photo Recovery Software. These recovery tools are embedded with interactive graphical user interface that makes them easy to use and understand. Incorporated by highly qualified technicians, these Photo Recovery tools employ advanced scanning algorithms to recover and restore your lost data completely.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an efficient Photo Recovery application that ensures complete and accurate recovery of your lost data. This software can recover data from a wide variety of audio and video file formats. The read only application is compatible with various storage media like Memory Sticks, Flash Cards, Sony Memory Stick, Secure Digital Card, IBM Micro Drive, SD Cards, MMC Cards, XD Cards,, Zip Disks and Mini Disks. This non destructive tool is available for Microsoft Windows (Windows Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT) and Apple Mac OS (Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger and 10.3.9 Panther).

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