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How to Get Things Back on Your SD Card If You Accidentally Formatted It

SD card could allow you save much necessary information on it, but what if you format your SD card by accident? With a result, your occasional action eliminates all data saved on it. Do you know how to get things back from the formatted SD card if information saved on it is vital and crucial and there is no backup of it? Have you tried to retrieve your losses? It doesn't matter if you failed, because there is a way to restore the data saved on the formatted SD card with 100 percent guarantee.

Case of losing files by formatting the SD card incidentally

I formatted my SD card by error last night and I have tried to find a way to get back the lost files and folders saved on it since it was formatted. But I still could not figure out what s I should do to retrieve the lost data. I intended to rename one of the folders but click the format all button by mistake. Those files and folders are the one and only, so there is no way for me to write them again except for restoring them. Is there anyone could help me? -Bernard from Albany

How to retrieve lost information from formatted SD card with data recovery software

Stop using the SD card once it was formatted and plug it out of the digital devices to put it a safe place until you knowing how to find back lost files from it. Data recovery software could assist you in fact, and it is able to recover data from all kinds of memory card after formatting.

Recover data from formatted sd card

Preparation: Connect the SD card to your computer. Then, download, install and run the data recovery software. Finally, you can select a recovery module to recover data on the card.

1Download and install the data recovery software on the computer.
2Insert the formatted SD card to a card reader and plug both of them on the computer.
3Open the data recovery tool. Choose the recovery model and aim disk start to scan.
4Preview the restorable files in the list after scanning and select the needed to recover.

Other data loss scenarios happen to SD card

As we discussed before, SD card is convenient for you to store necessary files but data saved on it could be lost on some occasions, such as formatting the SD card. Actually, there is much other kind of data loss situations except for formatting the SD card. Here are some other common data loss scenarios below:

1. Data deleted by mistake or intention.

2. SD card on which be downloaded and mounted the harmful software and files contain virus and worms. So data saved on it was infected by virus.

3. Power failure. Computer or other digital devices closed suddenly while the SD card still in the process of reading or writing.

4. SD card was damaged by physical factors, such as heat and striking.

5. Other similar logical corruption.

You could retrieve the lost data by data recovery software quickly and safely once files saved on SD card lost because of any kind of logical corruption.

Proper usage of SD card in case of data losing

Data loss is a terrible thing in daily life, so you need to get some idea about how to use SD card properly to prevent suffering this problem. Here are some tips as follows:

1. Plug the SD card out of the computer after the safe information pops out.

2. Put it away from high temperate and corrosive liquid.

3. Do not insert the same SD card to many different card readers.

4. Do not format it more than often.

Different kinds of SD card

SD card is one kind of memory card to save files quickly. There are three kind of SD card: SD card, micro SD card and mini SD card. They are different in storage capacities, shapes and suitable digital device. But there is the distinction in storage capacities among them, the volume of SD card range 8MB to 256 GB, of mini SD card range 16MB to 16GB, and of micro SD card range 128MB to 128GB. The production of micro SD card and mini SD card is to cater for the smaller digital devices which are easier to carry.

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