SD card was jointly developed by Panasonic, Toshiba and SanDisk in August, 1999. It weighs 2g and is as small as a stamp but has large capacity, fast data transmission speed, great flexibility and portability. SD card is being used in various kinds of portable digital products and has become the standard storage device on digital cameras, including Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sony, Konica and so forth. Many professional photographers would like to use SD cards of small capacity to prevent myriad photo loss problems. As a matter of fact, many experienced users also prefer SD cards of large capacity because they know that SD card photo recovery can be realized easily. However, if SD card is not physically damaged, those users will take advantage of professional photo recovery software rather than professional data recovery companies to recover lost photos because the latter way always costs much. And we can even download a piece of powerful but free photo recovery software from http://www.photo-recovery.biz/ to carry out photo recovery for SD card. This Windows photo recovery software is of powerful functions and simple operations.
The best photo recovery software for SD card photo recovery
As professional photo recovery software, the recommended tool supports all common Windows operating systems including Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003/2008, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Whatever file systems are adopted in SD card, this photo recovery software can be used all the same. To further get familiar with its functions, we will describe it via its starting interface, as follows.
From the above screenshot, we can see different modules are provided to recover lost photos in diverse situations. For example, we can recover deleted photos and recover lost photos caused by deleting partition and formatting partition. And "Digital Media Recovery" is earmarked for photo recovery, music recovery and video recovery from hard drive and external storage devices. It is the optimal module for SD card photo recovery. Then we'll show how to perform photo recovery for SD card by employing this module.
SD card photo recovery
Connect SD card to the computer and launch the Windows photo recovery software. Then click "Digital Media Recovery" module and we'll see the following interface.
Select the SD card in this interface and click "Full Scan" to scan it. Then all lost photos will be shown, as follows.
Please find and check the photos that are to be recovered and click "Save Files" to store them to a safe location, finishing SD card photo recovery.
By using "Digital Media Recovery" module, we have succeeded in photo recovery for SD card. Even if the SD card is formatted, this module can also recover the lost photos easily. The operations are similar. For more information about other modules, please visit other pages of this website.