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Quick Formatted Camera Memory Card SD

Do you often take pictures with your camera when traveling? What if the camera memory card was quick formatted if you have saved a lot of photos on it? You must want to find them back at that time. Then what would you do to retrieve your lost photos or other files from the quick formatted camera SD card? Don't worry even if you have failed after many trails, because you can restore all your losses on SD card after being quick formatted with the help of data recovery software.

Case of camera SD card being quick formatted

I quick formatted my camera memory card-SD card last night. I did not mean to format it but quick format it by mistake. All pictured saved on the SD card are precious and crucial for me and it is too late to backup them now. As a result, the only way is to get them back from the quick formatted camera memory card. Do you guys have any possible solution? I totally have no idea what should be done to the formatted SD card. Help me, please. –Panda from Mississippi

How to get back lost information from the quick formatted SD card with data recovery software

Data recovery software can help us restore our lost files from the quick formatted camera memory card quickly and safely. It doesn't matter if you never heard of it and feel strange to it. The following steps will show you its powerfulness and using guidance. You should take a try if you happen to meet a formatted SD card:

Recover data from formatted memory card SD

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect SD memory card to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.

1Insert the quick formatted SD card to a card reader and connect both of them to the computer.
2Download and install the data recovery software on the same computer.
3Open the data restoration tool and select the recovery model, then choose the target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and choose the files need to be restored to recover.

Proper usage to camera SD card in order to avoid losing files

Some people quick format the camera memory card on purpose and some of them quick format the SD card by accident. Most people want to get back their lost files from the formatted memory card on the second condition. What's more, people lost their data on the second case due to carelessness. So we should use the SD card correctly in case of losing data. Here are some proper usages as follows:

1. Do not use the camera to take photos when it is in low voltage. It is likely to damage the camera memory card or lose information saved on it in low voltage. The reason is that power in low voltage is not stable. So it is better not to use the camera when its voltage is low.

2. Do not put the camera memory card either into corrosive liquid or in heat. Both high temperature and corrosive liquid can destroy the flash chips of SD card and cause physical corruption. If the flash chips were damaged by heat and corrosive liquid, the camera memory card may not be able to save any files on it, may can not be detected by the camera or computer, or other serious consequences.

3. Do not plug the camera memory card out of the computer during its process of read and write. You should close all programs related to the SD card when you intend to plug it out of the computer. What’s more, you should click on the memory card icon at the right corner on the computer to unplug it safely after all related programs being closed.

4. Do not remove the memory card from camera when it is working, such as taking photos, and so forth. It is better to remove the SD card out of camera when the camera is closed or data saved on the camera memory card may be lost.

5. Do not use the same memory card to many different cameras. It is also an incorrect usage to memory card that insert one SD card to many different cameras. Files saved on the memory card may be lost easily on such condition.

Different storage devices that camera support

Generally, memory card is the kind of storage device to save files which is supported by the cameras. Other storage devices, such as pen drive, external hard disk can not be connected to the cameras to help us store more pictures and other files. But the kind of memory card is various. Here are some kinds of memory cards that could be supported by cameras below: SD card, memory stick, XD picture card, CF card.

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