Patent ID: 8477216

Claim:
A booting method of an image capturing apparatus, applicable to an image capturing apparatus using a memory card, comprising: receiving a power-on signal; reading memory card plug information to determine whether the memory card has been plugged out in a power-off period of the image capturing apparatus; if the memory card has not been plugged out, directly reading a previously recorded free space and a previously recorded file index table of the memory card, so as to accordingly boot the image capturing apparatus; if the memory card has been plugged out, re-calculating the free space of the memory card and executing a file sorting procedure to generate the file index table, so as to accordingly boot the image capturing apparatus; and detecting whether the memory card has been plugged out in the power-off period of the image capturing apparatus, and accordingly recording the memory card plug information, wherein the step of recording the memory card plug information comprises: executing a boot code of the image capturing apparatus; and recording the memory card plug information through the boot code.