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Free SD Card File Recovery

What would you do if you lose important and crucial information saved on your SD card? Maybe you think that you lose them forever, so you don't look for ways to salvage them and just blame yourself or others. I get to tell you that you are totally wrong. You should build a new notion that it can be reclaimed if your data saved on SD card have lost. And what is the way to solve it? Data recovery software, which is the answer, could help you get back lost information from SD card.

Data lost situation on SD card

Nothing has saved on my phone and SD card after I was back to the factory default settings to my Nokia. It doesn't matter that information on the phone lost, which I can set and get easily. But files saved on SD card are very important for me, even for my family. There is no wish that I could lose them. Where are they? What should I do to find them back? Any one could kindly help me? - Catalina from Utah

How to retrieve data from SD card

If you want to restore data from the problematic SD card, then what you need is a little patience and the data recovery software. With such a software, you can recover data from memory card after formatting, deleting, unformatted error, etc. Here are steps as follows of how to use data restoration program to salvage the missing information:

Recover data from SD card

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the SD card to your computer and then run the software.

1Insert your SD card to a card reader and connect it to your computer.
2Downlaod, install and launch the data recovery software.
3Select a recovery module and let the software scan the SD card for lost data.
4Preview the found files after scanning and then restore the files you need.

Caution while recovering information by data recovery software

There are some things to which you should take seriously when you try to recover your loss. You should pay attention to the following tips once you lost important files or folders:

1. Don’t perform any operation on the SD card from which you lose information, such as save new data on it, and format or reformat it.

2. Don’t save the data recovery software on the SD card that need to be fixed.

3. Don’t save the recovered files on the SD card from which you restore them firstly. Save them on the computer disk and remove them until the SD card could work normally.

4. You’d better back up your important files after retrieving them.

How to avoid data loss from SD card

You could avoid some data loss situations if you are careful enough in daily life. Here are some precautionary things as follows:

1. Don’t delete files or folders by accident or format the SD card by mistake as far as possible.

2. Put your SD card and digital devices which was inserted SD card a safe place to protect it from corrosion.

3. Don’t download and launch software contain virus and worms on the SD card or digital devices your SD card connect to.

4. Avoid abrupt removal.

5. Protect computer and other digital devices from crash or dead close.

6. Protect the SD card from being suffering any unexpected disater and avoid RAW drive error on SD card.

Other different kind of memory card

Apart from SD card, there are still other memory cards to save information conveniently. Some of them are as follows:

Smart Media(SM), Compact Flash (CF), Multi Media Card (MMC), Micro Secure Digital (micro SD), Memory Stick, and XD-Picture Card (XD).

All of them also could run into data loss problem like SD card, but don’t worry, you can reclaim it with data recovery software as long as your data is corrupted logically or other similar reasons.

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