SD card photo loss issue may happen accidentally. For example, you format the SD card unexpectedly, and of course, you will lose all the files on the SD card including your photos. If these formatted photos are important, is it possible to recover formatted photos from SD card?

In general, after formatting, the photos will not be wiped from your SD card immediately. At first, the spaces they occupy are just marked as empty, and any new data can be written. If these spaces are overwritten by new data, the deleted photos will become unrecoverable. Before this, you can use MiniTool Photo recovery to recover photos from formatted SD card.

How to Recover Formatted Photos from SD Card

This software is specially designed to recover your lost and deleted photos and videos from all kinds of storage devices, such as digital camera, memory card, SD card, computer hard drive, and more. If you are using Window 10/8/7, you can download and install the Free Edition of this software to have a try for this freeware allows you to recover 200MB file totally.

Then, you can follow these steps to do SD card photo recovery.

Step 1: Double click on the software icon to open the software to enter its main interface as follows. Then, click on “Start” button to continue.

Step 2: Then, the software will display the hard drive and SD card it can detect in the following interface. Here, you can identify and choose the target SD card from its drive letter and capacity, then click on “Scan” button to continue.

Step 3: When the scanning process is finished, you will enter the following scan result interface. In the left side of this interface, you will see the data are listed in categories. You can choose one and view its items one by one. After that, you can check the photos you want to recover and click on “Save” button to select a proper path on you r computer to save these selected photos.

At last, the photos you want to recover are saved to the specified location on your computer and you can use them immediately.

Still, you should remember that this freeware only allows you to recover 200MB data in total. If you want to break this limitation to recover more formatted photos from your SD card, you need to upgrade this freeware to an advanced version from the MiniTool official site.

In addition, if you are using Mac computer, you can download MiniTool Mac Photo Recovery to have a try. Meanwhile, we recommend you to read this post to get more useful information: See! I Can Free Recover Mac Photos with Ease.