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Recover deleted files off cell phone memory card

Are files which saved on the cell phone memory card important for you? What is they are vital but are deleted by mistake? We can not find them on the phone internal memory if we delete them on the phone, we can not see them in the recycle bin if they are deleted when the phone memory card connected on the computer, either. Would we lose them permanently? As a matter of fact, we may still be able to get them back though we can not view them either on the phone internal memory or the recycle bin.

Example of deleting data off cell phone memory card

Some of my important pictures were deleted by accident the other day and I have not got them back till now. I like to take photos with my phone and I set the memory card as the location to save those pictures. Can I perform cell phone memory card file recovery after deletion and how to perform it? I have no idea what should be done now. When I asked my friends how to start phone memory card deleted files recovery, they told me that take those pictures again. Please kindly help me. – Ryan from LA

How to restore deleted information from the phone memory card with data recovery software

We can try to perform deleted files recovery after delete data off smart phone mistakenly. And the way to perform the recovery is to use the data recovery software, a kind of tool to get lost files back. The data recovery software supports SD card recovery, XD card recovery, CF card recovery, etc. It is easy to use the data restoration tool, and the following steps will guide us one step by one:

Recover deleted files off cell phone memory card

Preparation: Connect the cell phone memory card to your PC properly. Then, download and install the data recovery software. Launch the software adn select a recovery module.

1Download the data recovery software and mount it on the computer.
2Insert the phone memory card to a card reader and then connect it to the computer.
3Operate the data restoration program and then choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and pick up the files useful to recover.

Attention should be paid when recover deleted files

We may have been told that be careful no matter what we do. It is also right to recover deleted files from the cell phone memory card. We may lose the possibility to get deleted information back if there is something goes wrong. There are more than one things we need to keep in mind in order to retrieve data as much as we want. We may do something wrong on the phone memory card after deleting data off it, and here are the tips as follows to help us avoid the data recovery failure:

1. New data should be avoided saving on the phone memory card. It is better not to store new information on the memory card whose files are deleted accidentally or intentionally. The reason is that we can not get the deleted information back if they are overwritten, and the new data may overwrite them if they are stored on the memory card. Those deleted contents are still saved on the cell phone memory card after being deleted, so they may be overwritten by new data.

2. The cell phone memory card should not be formatted. It is not correct to format the memory card after deleting its data. We may have heard that we can perform phone memory card data recovery after format, just like deleted files recovery from memory card. The chance to get the deleted information back would be reduced if we deleted files off smart phone memory card at first and then format the memory card. We should know that and nor format the memory card at that time.

3. The smart phone memory card should be plugged out of the computer or phone. We should not keep using the memory card after deleting files off it. for example, we should not take pictures when the memory card still connected to the phone, or we should not surf on the internet, or other thing which there would be new corruption happen to the memory card in that case.

4. Other tips to the successful of deleted files recovery from phone memory card.

Different kinds of memory card can be supported by data recovery tool

The kinds of memory card are various. For example, there are different kinds of memory card SD card series, CF card, SM card, MMC card, memory stick, XD picture card, and so on. The phone memory cards are mostly micro SD card, micro SDHC card, and so on. We can perform deleted files recovery on all of them above, actually.

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