How to Recover Files from Formatted Memory Card, Memory Stick?

How can you perform memory card or memory stick format recovery if you imprudently formatted it? This unhappy thing always happens, say, when you go out with your family and take some precious photos with them, but without transferring to the computer, some other members of your family carelessly formatted your memory card and there is no its backingup. If so, there is no time for you to regret. Hurry up and you still have chances to recover the photos or your important files from formatted memory card.

Reliable unformat software will do the trick for you. You can do memory card/memory stick format recovery with EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard. All types of memory cards and memory sticks under Windows environment are supported.

What's a memory card and memory stick?

To recover files from formatted memory card, first, we can learn some knowledge of memory card and memory stick. A memory card or flash memory card is a solid-state electronic flash memory data storage device used in digital cameras, handheld and mobile computers, telephones, music players, video game consoles, and other electronics. They have high re-record-ability, power-free storage, small form factor, and rugged environmental specifications.

Memory stick, as a removable flash memory card format as well, has the similar storage features to memory card.

Types of memory cards:

There are many different types of memory cards. Some common places to use it include in digital cameras, game consoles, cell phones, and industrial applications. PC card (PCMCIA) was among first commercial memory card formats (type I cards) to come out in the 1990s, but are now mainly used in industrial applications and for I/O jobs (using types I/II/III), as a connection standard for devices (such as a modem). Also in 1990s, a number of memory card formats smaller than PC Card came out, including CompactFlash, SmartMedia and Miniature Card. In other areas, tiny embedded memory cards (SID) were used in cell phones; game consoles started using proprietary memory card formats; and devices like PDAs and digital music players started using removable memory cards.

From the late 1990s to the early 2000s, a host of new formats appeared, including SD/MMC, Memory Stick, XD-Picture Card, and a number of variants and smaller cards. The desire for ultra-small cards for cell-phones, PDAs and compact digital cameras drove a trend toward smaller cards that left the previous generation of "compact" cards looking big. In digital, cameras SmartMedia and CompactFlash had been very successful, in 2001, SM alone captured 50% of the digital camera market and CF had a strangle hold on professional digital cameras. By 2005, however, SD/MMC had nearly taken over SmartMedia's spot, though not to the same level and with stiff competition coming from Memory Stick variants, xD, as well as CompactFlash. In industrial fields, even the venerable PC card (PCMCIA), memory cards still manage to maintain a niche, while in cell-phones and PDAs, the memory card market is highly fragmented.

Nowadays, as a data storage device, memory card is commonly used in camera, cell phone, computer, etc. However, the photos or your important business/personal data also may be lost, due to format and virus infection. Data Recovery Wizard can help you recover your important files from the memory card. It easily recovers lost files due to deletion, formatted, partition loss, logical drives damage, virus infection, software crash, unexpected shutdown and other unknown reasons.

How to recover files from formatted memory card or memory stick?

Data Recovery Wizard is easy to use. From users' point of view, EASEUS devotes to developing user-friendly software. There are seldom technical terms in the dialogs, and most of them are there for your information. You need not to have in-depth knowledge of computer to perform memory card format recovery. That the only thing you really need to tell it is which module to use according to the reasons of data loss.

There are three modules on Data Recovery Wizard as the picture below. "Deleted File Recovery" is for recovering deleted data; "Partition Recovery" for recovering files due to partition loss or damage and "Complete Recovery" for recovering lost files after format or system crash, etc. For memory card format recovery, you need to choose the "Complete Recovery" module.

The step-by-step instruction of recovering from formatted memory card or memory stick is as following:

Step 1: launch the software, and click "Complete Recovery" module. Then a list of volumes on the drives found in your system will be listed. If the volume does not have a drive letter, the volume will be listed at the hindmost and the drive letter will be instead by "*".

Step 2: Choose the memory card that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching on this volume. The Intelligent Searching module will scan the selected volume, collect and analyze every byte on the volume, then show you a list of volumes which are possible on it.

Step 3: After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard will allow you to choose 4 volumes at best to recover the data. And then, press "NEXT" button, the Data Recovery Wizard will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Step 4: Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

After the four steps, you will recover files from formatted memory card/memory stick. You lost, and then you recover. The quicker you perform memory card format recovery, the more chance you will get your files back. Once your memory card/memory stick is overwritten, you will lose the chance to recover files from formatted memory card or memory stick forever. So there is no time for you to regret for not taking good care or backing up these files, instead, you must stop using the memory card or memory stick immediately and hurry up to try data recovery software to recover your formatted memory card.

If you are not sure whether Data Recover Wizard will recover your wanted files from formatted memory card or memory stick, before purchase you can free download a demo of EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard to see whether it will find your wanted files from formatted memory card or not. EASEUS also provides a 30-day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with its products. Just try to do memory card/memory stick format recovery.

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