Photo Recovery Formatted SD Card

SD card, short for Secure Digital Memory Card, is a new type of storage device based on semiconductor technology, mainly used on portable devices such as digital cameras, PDA and digital media players. SD card was jointly developed by Panasonic, Toshiba and SanDisk in August, 1999. It is as small as a stamp but has large capacity, high data transmission speed, high security and great portability.

SD card is developed on the basis of MMC but thicker. Although most SD cards have a write-protection switch to prevent writing data in accidentally and some even are equipped with DRM technology, those measures can not protect data from being lost. Users may delete some photos or even format SD card by chance. And all data will be lost if SD card is formatted. If we want carry out photo recovery from formatted SD card, professional photo recovery software should be used.

Choosing suitable photo recovery software
Currently, there is much photo recovery software on the internet, but little for photo recovery from formatted memory card. Whether we can succeed in photo recovery from formatted SD card depends on the software we'll use. If inferior photo recovery software is used, the formatted photos can not be recovered and may become unrecoverable. To guarantee successful photo recovery from formatted SD card, we suggest the free photo recovery software downloaded from http://www.photo-recovery.biz.

The powerful free photo recovery software
The free photo recovery software is developed by a famous Canadian software development company after long time research and repeated tests. Its powerful photo recovery abilities and user-friendly interface empowers users to recover lost photos easily. The following picture is its starting interface.



"Damaged Partition Recovery" is mainly used to recover data from formatted or logically damaged partition, so we can use it to carry out photo recovery from formatted SD card. And also, "Digital Media Recovery" can also be used because SD card is used to stored photos and videos most of the time. Then we'll show how to perform photo recovery from formatted SD card by using "Digital Media Recovery" module.

Photo recovery from formatted SD card
Connect the SD card to the computer and click "Digital Media Recovery" module. Then we'll see the following interface.



Select the SD card and click "Full Scan" to scan it. Then the following interface will be shown.



All photos in the formatted SD card are shown. Please select the ones to be recovered and click "Save Files" to store them to the computer.

Through so simple operations, we have recovered lost photos from formatted SD card with the free photo recovery software. However, this tool is only for Windows operating systems. If you are a Mac user and want a piece of free Mac photo recovery software, you can get it from the home page.