Is
there a way to unformat an SD card?
“This morning, I
plunged my SD card from my Cannon digital camera into my Dell laptop for
backing up some newly taken pictures. But, it asked me if I want to “format”
this SD card. Not knowing what was going on, I clicked “OK”. After a while, I
finally realized that I had deleted all these photos by the formatting. What
had I done? Is there a way to unformat this SD card? If you know anything about
it, please let me know!
Thank you in advance!”
Thank you in advance!”
This
is an emergency problem encountered by a netizen. Most people click "OK"
without thinking when the message “Memory card is not formatted, do you want to
format it now?” pops up. Afterwards, they realized that all data has been
removed. Yes, data loss without backup copy. Surfing on the internet, I have
noticed many similar issues.
- Format SD card on mobile phones or digital cameras
- Format SD card because you press the wrong button by accident
- Format SD card because of card not formatted error
Important Tips to
be Noticed after Formatting
Although
data in SD card lost after formatting, there’s a way out—unformat SD card
software. Some are free, and some are paid. Such kind of tools can recover lost
data from formatted SD card, memory card, external hard drive, etc. But before SD
card recovery, you should pay attention to below tips, otherwise you’ll have
less chance to get files back.
- Don’t repartition the formatted SD card
- Don’t save new files
- Don’t install any OS or applications on it
- Don’t reformat it
- Don’t try any untrusted unformat software
Tutorials to
Restore Data from Formatted SD Card
There’re
two must try recovery software: Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery and
Softtote Data Recovery Free for Mac. As you can see, the first one is for
Windows users and the second is available for Mac users. Basically, procedures
of SD card recovery are similar.
Step one Free download
and install unformat software on your computer. And then connect the card to PC
by a card reader or USB cable.
Step two Launch program and select recovery mode. You
can choose one by general function introduction.
Step three Specify partition to scan. After launching
app, available drives and partitions will be listed for scan. In this step,
many tools allow users to filter file types.
Step four Preview and recover. Found files will be
sorted by file type. Double click files to preview and then click “Recover”
button to store data. (Tips:
recovered files cannot be saved in original partition to avoid overwriting.)
To
sum up, main procedure works as below: download—scan—preview and recover.
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