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Reformatted micro SDHC Card

Have you ever seen a reformatted micro SDHC card? A reformatted micro SDHC card is a memory flash card which is formatted again after have been formatted once. Like being formatted at the first time, there is nothing stored on the micro SDHC card any more. Is there any way for us to retrieve files from the reformatted micro SDHC card? Actually, we have the ability to get the lost data back if we want. What we need is data recovery software.

Example of meeting a reformatted micro SDHC card

My brother gave me a micro SDHC card which was formatted more than one time in a short time. He thought he is younger than me and I must have the ability to get his lost information from the reformatted micro SDHC card. He told me that he formatted and reformatted the micro SDHC card both by accident and there were a lot of important files saved on it at the previous time. Actually, I have no idea how I can recover those lost contents. Anyone can help me? -Allan from Utah

How to get lost files back from the reformatted micro SDHC card with data recovery software

Data recovery software can help us restore what have been lost but useful still from the micro SDHC card which has been reformatted. The recovery process will not take too much time and energy and we just click on a few buttons simply. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to start reformat data recovery:

Recover data from reformatted micro sdhc card

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

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Connect the reformatted micro SDHC card to the exact computer with the help of card reader.
3Operate the data restoration tool on the computer. Choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the restorable files in the list after the scan, and then pick up the needed to recover.

Cases that people may format the micro SDHC card again

Maybe more than one people have formatted the micro SDHC card again ever due to different purposes. Now we have known that the action of reformatting is not suggested though we can get lost data back from it with the help of data recovery tool. Do you know on which condition people will format the micro SDHC card again? The opinions of different people are various. Here are some different cases in which we may format our micro SDHC card again below, and we should keep in mind that we should not reformat the micro SDHC card when met such situation next time:

1. Format the micro SDHC card again by mistake. Sometimes the micro SDHC card is reformatted just because of the wrong clicking on button, such as format or format all button. To avoid such terrible situation, we should be careful enough when perform operation on micro SDHC card, and make it clear that which button we choose to press before clicking on it.

2. Reformat the micro SDHC card in order to recover lost data. We may think that we can get what we have lost from the formatted micro SDHC card by formatting it again. What’s more, we may also hold that even though we can not retrieve what we need, we will have no other loss at all. So we format it again. But the truth is the chance to restore needed files from the micro SDHC card is reduced after reformatting the micro SDHC card.

3. Format the micro SDHC card again so as to use it normally. We have to format the micro SDHC card if it is infected by virus and worms. In other words, the format action is anti-virus way. Some of us think that we can not complete the against virus process just formatting eth micro SDHC card once, and need to format it more times. So we just format the micro SDHC card again and again. Actually, the one time formatting is enough to anti virus.

4. Other possible cases that micro SDHC card is reformatted.

File types can be recovered after reformatting by data recovery tool

There are various types of files we need to use and save, such as pictures, videos, audio files, software, word documents, and other types of files. So here comes the question that can all of them be retrieved by data recovery tool after being saved on the micro SDHC card but be reformatted? Or which of them can be recovered. As a matter of fact, we can restore all we need from the reformatted micro SDHC card with the help of data recovery program.

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