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Anonymous Posted on Jul 01, 2011

I have a canon powershot sd 1200 is. I tried to transfer the photos from the camera into a laptop using the memory card; t didn't work. Put the card back into the camera. Now camera says "memory card error" and it won't let me take pictures or view my pictures. I don't want to format the card b/c I know that will delete all the images from the camera. I have pictures from our Disneyland vacation that I would really like to save. What can I do to save and retrive these images???

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This sounds like your card has some type of error that is causing the images not to be seen. My suggestion is that you go to your local chain pharmacy (such as Walgreens, CVS, Duane Reade) and put your memory card into their photo kiosk machine to read the pictures. Hopefully their machine will be able to read the memory card and then you can have them copy your pictures to a CD/DVD. After this is done then you would be able to reformat the card and clear the error. If the card still does not read or work then it seems you will need to look into a service that does data recovery.

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    Thanks Paul! I will try that and hope my images can be recovered. Would really hate to loose those Disneyland pictures! ;)

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Have your restored all your images back yet?
If you have not, you can try my ways to take chances:
Plunge this camera memory card back to your computer with a card Reader and see whether it could get the same problem.
If it can be read functionally, you'd better copy off all your stored images and format it latter to check whether it can still work well on your camera.
But, unfortunately, if it also gets the same card error problem, you'd better firstly try a photo recovery freeware to restore all your needed photos back:
http://www.freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/02/photo-recovery.html
This data recovery freeware has helped many people around me retrieve their inaccessible data back from a memory card or hard drive, including mine. So, it could be a great choice for you.
Read more detailed information of this freeware here:
http://www.freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/03/memory-card-recovery.html
Note: I hope you can always back up all your needed photos on different cards or drives all the time.

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