The Olympus Mju 550 WP is just not about the stylish looks but the camera has something really attractive to lure the adventurous souls. It is the ‘waterproof’ feature which allows the camera to be used at depths of up to ten feet underwater. Incorporating 10 megapixels, 3x optical zoom lens, 2.5 inch LCD display, this camera is one of the least expensive waterproof cameras. You can shoot countless photos with the camera as it is compatible with XD card. Though, your photos remain safe on XD cards, you cannot be fully assured of things. XD cards, just like other memory cards, are prone to generating errors, thus leaving your photos inaccessible. Though most of the errors can be rectified by formatting, the photos saved on XD cards remain missing. To deal such situations you must have a valid backup. In case, a backup cannot fulfill the requirement, you need not worry about recovering photos. A photo recovery software can work wonders and recover all your lost photos within a few minutes time.

As a practical case, you celebrated your daughter’s birthday and clicked several photos. While you connect your camera to a computer to transfer photos, the computer doesn’t allow the process. And when you put back your XD card in your Olympus Mju 550 WP camera, you are greeted by the following error:

“Card error”

As a result of the above error, you are not able to access the photos of your daughter’s birthday either on the camera or the computer.

Cause

The above error could surface in the following scenarios:

  • If the XD card contacts require cleaning
  • If the XD card is not inserted properly
  • If the XD card’s file system has got damaged

Resolution

In order to make the XD card reusable and to access your photos, you can observe the following steps:

  • Clean the contacts of the XD card with a dry and soft cloth
  • Re-insert the XD card
  • Try and access the photos using a card reader
  • Format the XD card in your Olympus Mju 550 WP camera

As soon as you format the XD card, download a digital photo recovery software from the Internet in order to recover erased photos. Such third-party utilities are designed to recover photos in almost all possible data loss scenarios. Make sure, you select a read-only photo recovery utility with a simple graphical user interface.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an easy-to-use and reliable software that recovers lost, deleted or formatted photos from multiple camera brands including Olympus, Fujifilm, Nikon, Canon etc. The photo recovery utility is available for both Windows and Mac users.