How to recover files from formatted SD card?

What can you do to retrieve lost data after accidentally formatting a SD Card? Sad thing always happens, say, if you lent your Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS to one of your friends and when it came back, all your photos on your camera has been formatted. Do you feel frustrated to find a way of getting your precious photos or any other important files back? Here after reading through this article, all things will become easy.  Now, this article will give you the solution to recover data from formatted SD card. "Complete Recovery" built-in EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard will do the magic job for you to recover the formatted SD card.

What's a SD card?

SD card, short for Secure Digital card, is a highly-sophisticated and non-volatile memory card format developed by Matsushita, SanDisk, and Toshiba for use in portable devices. It is available in standard and high-capacity formats along with a variety of speed classes. Today it is widely used in digital cameras, handheld computers, PDAs, mobile phones, GPS receivers, and video game consoles. The capacities of Standard SD card range from 4 MB to 4 GB, and for high capacity SDHC cards from 4 GB to 32 GB as of 2008. Announced at the 2009 CES a new specification (SDXC) (Extended Capacity) will allow for 2TB capacity cards.

Besides, using decoder software, a SD compatible device can play music, video clips and more without a drive mechanism like those in CD and DVD players. This allows the equipment to be more compact and gives product designers new creative freedom. Reliability is also improved through the elimination of skipping on music and video files.

So, as the widely use of SD card, data loss from SD card may happen every day because of some careless doing. You must have trustable data recovery software in hand so as to get your data back when SD card has been formatted.  EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is a good choice for computer users to do SD card format recovery under Windows environment.

How to recover from formatted SD card with Data Recovery Wizard?

Data Recovery Wizard is really easy to use and suitable for all levels of users. With a user-friendly interface, you don't have to be a professional and just a few clicks, lost data can be got back. That the only thing you really need to tell is to choose the right 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 data from lost partition and "Complete Recovery" for recovering files after format, files after crash, etc. For SD card format recovery, you need to choose the "Complete Recovery" module.

 

The step-by-step instruction of recovering from formatted SD card is as following:

Step 1: Please download a demo version for try and install it in your PC. Then just launch the software, and choose "Complete Recovery" module.

Step 2: Here you can choose certain types of files for search or if you are not so clear about the types of lost files, just tick the first option. "Ignore bad sectors" will skip bad sectors and save a lot time of locating files you need.

Step 3: Choose the formatted SD card 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 4: After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard will allow you choosing 4 volumes a time at most 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 5: 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 five steps above, data of formatted SD card can be retrieved. The quicker you perform SD card format recovery, the more chance you will get your files back. Once your SD card is overwritten, you will lose the chance to recover files from formatted SD card forever. So there is no time for you to regret for not taking good care or backing up the SD card, stop using the SD card immediately and hurry up to try data recovery software to recover your formatted SD card.

 

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