How to Fix 'card not initialized' error in kodak Easyshare C142

The Kodak Easyshare C142 is made up of for consumers point of views, easy to use ans easy on your budget. It provides many advanced features like Smart Capture feature, brilliant pictures, etc. The camera is combination of 10 megapixels image sensor, 3x optical zoom and 6.4 cm LCD display. Sharing photos clicked with the C142 is an easy job as the camera has a 'share button' which allows you to instantly tag photos to Facebook, Youtube, Kodak gallery, emails etc. You can store hundreds of photos as the camera is compatible with external memory like SD card, memory card, etc.

Through these card user can store the photos for a long time, but these high capacity and durable card there could be instances resulting on data inaccessible. To over come with such types of situation you should have an appropriate backup or Card recovery software.


For Example: If you and your friends go for a holiday tour and you come up with lots of memories stored in the form of photos. when you connect the camera to a computer and found the following Error:

“card not initialized”

The above error message is an outcome of corruption due to SD card has defects or SDHC card due to an interruption in the write process.

In order to access the data and make your Kodak Easyshare C142 works again, you can follow the following points:

• Replace the SD card or contact the SD card manufacturer
• Format the SD card and go for instant card recovery

Makes sure you select a tool which is read only and doesn't modify the original content. Use card recovery software to recover your lost photos.

Different way to recover data from Secure Digital cards

Data loss from an SD (Secure Digital) card is a very common phenomenon. The loss could be a nightmare for a photographer who invested a good deal of time and efforts to create a bank of valuable pictures. Data loss from an SD card can occur owing to various reasons like interruption in read/write process, file system corruption and virus attacks. 'Delete all' button in digital cameras could land a photographer in trouble if it gets pressed accidentally. Fortunately, there are ways to perform SD card recovery. Here's what you can do in a data loss situation:

Don't use the SD card

It is suggested not to take more pictures or transfer any more files on to the card. If you don't use the SD card after an event of data loss, you increase the probability of SD card recovery. When files are deleted, their data remains 100 per cent intact on an SD card. The SD card, however, marks the space free to be overwritten by another file. If you don't use the card, no data can be written onto it, thus keeping the chances of successful recovery bright.

In order to be extra sure of things, you can push down the little switch on the left side of an SD card to 'write-protect' the disk. As long as it is locked, nothing can be written on the card.

Take it out and re-insert it

On a few events, a computer cannot recognize the data stored on an SD card. Remove the card, reinsert it and 'refresh' the windows.

Check your camera, you can find data there

On rare occasions, when you don't insert an SD card properly, or the camera setting may have been changed, the data gets stored in the internal memory. If this is the situation, use an SD card and copy all pictures from the internal memory to the card. Make sure that the SD card is not locked before you undertake any writing operation

Recovering data

You have to use an SD card recovery software to retrieve data after observing the above discussed strategies. There are plenty of SD card recovery utilities available on the Internet. These third-party tools scan the storage media and extract data in the original form.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is an efficient tool which recovers lost/deleted/formatted pictures and other multimedia files from a range of memory cards including SD, SDHC, MMC, MMC plus etc. The SD card recovery software is available in two separate versions, one each for both Windows and Mac users.