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Reformatted Samsung galaxy micro SD TF card

We may meet various problems big or small when use Samsung Galaxy due to some reasons. For example, the micro SD card on Samsung Galaxy is reformatted. Do you have any idea what to do if there are files important saved on that TF card at the previous time? Can we recover them? Yes, we can get those losses back. What we need is data recovery tool. It can help us retrieve what needed from the reformatted micro SD card quickly.

Case of Samsung Galaxy micro SD card being reformatted

I plugged a micro SD card into my Samsung Galaxy in order to install more apps and let the phone operate more easy and smooth. It really helps me a lot. But things unpleasant happened. The micro SD card is formatted twice by my brother accidentally. All apps and other files such as pictures are gone and I can not find them in the phone. What should I do? I want to get all my lost files back now. Is there any flexible way for me to recover the files from the reformatted TF card? -Denny from LA

How to recover data from reformatted Samsung Galaxy TF card with data recovery software

Photos, audios, apps and other files may be able to be recovered after the Samsung Galaxy micro SD card is formatted and formatted again. Data recovery tool is very helpful for us at that time. It can restore lost contents by scanning at first from the reformatted TF card. Here are the steps as follows to guide us to start:

Recover data from reformatted TF card

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

1Plug the reformatted micro SD card into the computer.
2Download and mount the data recovery software on the exact computer.
3Double click data restoration program to start it. Select the recovery model and object disk to scan.
4We can preview the restorable files after scanning. Preview them and pick up the needed to recover.

Proper usage to Samsung Galaxy micro SD card

We will lose files if format or reformat the Samsung Galaxy micro SD card by mistake or on purpose. It is just one case that data saved on the TF card may be lost, and there are other reasons that cause data lost from micro SD card. The improper usage is one of them. If we do not use the micro SD card correctly, there may be different consequence we will face, and data saved on the TF card at the previous time get lost is one of the terrible results. More seriously, the micro SD card itself can not be used after that. Here is the guidance of proper usage to TF card below:

1. Do not hurt the flash chips of micro SD card. As we all know, the micro SD card belongs to the flash memory card and can help us store a lot of files on it quickly and safely. Once the flash chips of micro SD card is damaged, it can not store any content and files saved on it originally will be lost and it is hard to recover them. So we should not hurt the flash chips. For example. Do not divide the micro SD card into one more parts, or do not hit the micro SD card, or other bad actions.

2. Format the micro SD card on Samsung Galaxy. We need to format the TF card sometimes in order to use it normally or because of other possible reasons. We should not plug the micro SD card out of cell phone and connect it to the computer at that time. On the contrary, we should format it on the cell phone directly. If we format the micro SD card on the computer, we may meet incompatibility trouble later.

3. Plug the micro SD card out of Samsung Galaxy or computer safely. We should close the cell phone at first and then remove the micro SD card from it. If we need to remove the TF card from computer, then we should not close it firstly but to unplug the memory card safely. We should close all the related programs and click on eth micro SD card icon. And then we will know how to unplug it from computer safely.

4. Other correct usages to micro SD card.

Different kinds of SD card

TF card, also called as micro SD card, is one kind of SD card. The size of micro SD card is smaller than normal SD card. According to size, appearance, memory capacity and speed, there are some different kinds of SD card, such as micro SD card, mini SD card, SDHC card, SDXC card, micro SDXC card, and so forth.

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