SD card, short for Security Digital Memory Card, is a kind of memory equipment based on semiconductor flash memory. It is widely used in portable devices like digital cameras, PDA and multimedia players. As storage devices, it also often goes wrong, which causes data loss problems. Take digital cameras for example. Users' accidental operations may delete some important photos or format SD card. And some times, SD card can be recognized but can not be read due to unknown reasons. In those situations, photo recovery for SD card is of prime importance. We can resort to professional data recovery companies or use professional photo recovery software. However, we suggest the latter because professional but free photo recovery software can be downloaded from http://www.photo-recovery.biz/.
The powerful free photo recovery software
After downloading the free photo recovery software, please install and then launch it. We'll see its starting interface, as follows.
Five photo recovery modules are provided. And we can select the suitable one to recover lost photos for SD card according to practical situations. For example, if photos are deleted by accident, "Undelete Recovery" module can be used; if SD card is formatted, "Damaged Partition Recovery" can be used. And "Digital Media Recovery" module is specially recommended to recover lost photos because it is earmarked for photo recovery, audio recovery and video recovery. Then we'll show how to recover lost photos from SD card by employing this module.
Photo recovery for SD card
1. Connect the SD card to the computer (a card reader is suggested) and then launch the free photo recovery software. Please click "Digital Media Recovery" module and we'll see the following interface.
2. Select the SD card and click "Full Scan" to scan it. Then the following interface will be shown.
3. All lost photos in the SD card are shown. Find and check the ones to be recovered and click "Save Files" to store them to the computer instead of the original SD card, preventing lost photos from being overwritten.
Through so simple operations, we have realized photo recovery for SD card. Besides SD card, this free photo recovery software also supports data recovery from other storage devices like USB flash drives, MP3, memory sticks and hard drives. However, when photos are lost, we should never store new data to the storage devices, or the lost data may be overwritten and become unrecoverable.