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Recover videos off a SD card

Have the video files ever been erased off the SD card which we use in daily life? We may delete the video files off the secure digital memory card mistakenly or format the SD memory card by error sometimes. Have you ever wanted to get those erased videos back if they were important or valuable? Some of us may think it is possible to retrieve lost videos from SD card. It is wrong, actually. We can perform the SD card videos recovery with data restoration tool.

Example of deleting videos off the SD card by error

I deleted all video files off the SD memory card by accident the other day. I recognized that some of those videos are important and useful for me last night. As a result, I have to get them back. Is it possible to perform videos recovery from SD card? Then how to start if we can perform the lost videos recovery? I totally have no idea what should be done now. Please tell me the exact way to retrieve deleted video files from the secure digital memory card. Thank you any way. –Alice from New York

How to recover videos files from the SD memory card with data recovery software

The exact way is to use data recovery tool to get lost videos from the secure digital memory card. What's more, it is easy to perform the files recovery from SD card, and we may be able to access those lost video files quickly. The following steps will show us how to perform the lost videos recovery in detail:

Recover data from sd card

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

1Download the data recovery software and install it on the computer.
2Insert the aim SD card to the same computer as the data recovery program launched.
3Run the data restoration tool on the computer and choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Pick up the contents in the list after the scan to recover according to its names or other characters.

Notice should be took of while restoring videos from SD card

Nearly all of us may think it is simple to retrieve lost video files from the SD memory card with the help of data recovery program. It is right, to some extent. We may get the lost videos form the secure digital memory card easily and quickly under the help of data restoration tool. But we may fail to restore videos needed form the SD card even though with data recovery tool, either. Do you know why? It may because we do something improper while recovering data from SD card. Here are some tips as follows:

1. Do not save new contents on the aim SD card. Videos are deleted off the secure digital memory card may because they are deleted directly or the SD memory card is formatted. We can save new files and folders on the SD card in those cases above. But it is better not to save any new information on the secure digital memory card until the end of data recovery in case of fail to recover files needed.

2. Do not format the object SD memory card. One of the situations that the video files lose off secure digital memory card is the SD card shows not formatted error. We would be told to format the SD memory card before we can use it normally in that case. The proper action is to perform lost videos recovery with data restoration program and then format the problematic SD card.

3. Do not use the target secure digital memory card. No matter which kind of videos losses situations is, it is better to stop using the SD card. For example, we may intend to perform CHKDSK on the secure digital memory card if it is raw file system or in other trouble. But we should not perform any operation on the SD card if we wanted to retrieve original files from it until the end of data recovery.

4. Others we should pay attention to in case of the failure of lost videos recovery form SD card.

Storage devices from which videos can be retrieved by data recovery tool

Besides SD card, we may also save the videos files on the computer hard disk drive, external USB drive, USB flash drive, CF card, TF card, and other kinds of storage devices. No matter which kind of memory devices the video files saved, we can try to get them back if lost from those storage devices with data recovery program, actually.

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