The Canon PowerShot SD880IS is a powerful yet compact point-and-shoot digital camera. Incorporating 10 mega pixels, DIGIC IV processor, motion detection, 4x optical zoom, this camera promises excellent speed and picture quality.

The easy-to-use camera stores images to both SD and SDHC cards. Although these flash memory cards gives you the utmost flexibility to store hundreds of images, they can also be responsible for giving rise to data loss situations. In event of corruption, your Canon SD880IS can throw random errors or you may not be able to connect it to a computer. To deal such cases and access the data, you can then look up to an appropriate backup solution. In case, you don’t have a backup, you are required to use reliable image recovery software.

As a practical case, when you attempt to access the images on the SD card of your Canon PowerShot SD880IS on a Windows XP-based computer, you may encounter the following error:

“The disk in drive X is not formatted”

Even if you re-insert the card, you won’t be able to access images on your computer, forget downloading them.

Cause :

The possible reasons behind this error could be:

  • When Sdbus.sys or Secure Digital Bus Driver tries to use high-speed mode even if the SD card doesn’t support it.
  • SD card is corrupt

Resolution :

In order to overcome the above problem, you must try the following troubleshooting steps:

  • The issue of high-speed mode has been resolved in the corresponding hotfix of Windows XP. You must download it. To apply this hotfix, make sure you have Windows XP Service Pack 3 installed on your computer
  • To fix corruption issue, you must re-format the card in your Canon PowerShot SD880IS camera, followed by image recovery

    • You must restore the lost images by using a valid backup. In case, you reformat the SD card in your Canon camera, and there is no backup available or if it is corrupt, you must download digital image recovery software.

    Such tools apply scanning algorithms to recover lost images from formatted SD card in relatively minimal time. But, do remember you download a non-destructive utility.

    Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is a reliable software which recovers lost or deleted images and other multimedia files from various storage media including memory cards, memory sticks, digital cameras, camcorders, hard drives, USBs and more. Available for both Windows and Mac, the image recovery tool recovers all image formats.