How to Perform SD Card Recovery

Ever mistakenly lost precious photos, videos and other data from your SD card? Still panic and wonder if there is any way to recover those deleted, formatted and lost files? You will say no but the real answer is Yes. You CAN perform an SD card recovery easily ON YOUR OWN no matter you are running computer with Windows or Mac OS X.

First things first- Immediately stop using your SD card which stored precious pictures, movies and other files. If you are much more cautious, plug the SD card out of the device like digital camera, camcorder, mobile phone or even game console, etc. and put it in safe place.

Caution: Never let the slim SD card have any chance to suffer physical damage.

Why should you keep those things first? – In order to maximize the chance of SD card data recovery. Technically speaking, a single delete or format option won’t erase the real data that saved on your SD card. The real data is still stored on the precious sectors of the disk on your SD card. As long as those data is not overwritten (If you continue to save more files, they might be overwritten), it is definitely possible to let those lost files come alive with SD card recovery software.

How to recover deleted files from SD card?

By relying on third-party SD card data recovery software – it is pretty straight forwards. As those micro SD data recovery software will use advanced algorithms to scan your SD card and dig the disk to search your erased file data. Wondershare Photo Recovery or Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac is such recovery software which can retrieve photos, videos and audio files from SD card easily with both Windows and Mac supported.

If you are running Windows, try Wondershare Photo Recovery.
For those Mac OS X users, go to Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac.

With ONLY 3 steps, you can quickly perform SD card recovery

1. Connect your SD card to a computer with Wondershare Photo Recovery or Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac installed. Select your SD card and start to scan.
2. Preview the found files to check if your lost files have been found.
3. Select your desired files to recover the SD card files easily.

Tips:
If you also want to recover SD card documents more than videos, photos and audio files, such as Office documents, PDF files, Archives, Emails, etc., you need to choose the higher version: Wondershare Data Recovery or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac, which does more than the Photo Recovery.

SD card data loss scenarios

Wondershare Photo Recovery can perform SD card data recovery under the below scenarios:
» Accidentally deleted files from SD card
» Formatted SD card
» SD card got corrupted or inaccessible
» Virus inflection
» Power failure
» Others

Meanwhile, SD card brands such as Sandisk SD card, Transend SD card, Lexar SD card, ATP SD card, Kingston SD card, PNY SD card etc, and card types like Mini SD card, Micro SD card, SDHC card, and MMC card are all supported.

Tips to Ensure Better Chance of SD card file recovery:
1. Better take the SD card out of your media device, and then plug it into your computer with a card reader.
2. DO NOT defragment your SD card before the SD card recovery.
3. Save the recovered files to another disk instead of the original card.

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