Q: My dear memory card got a problem. When I entered it into my PC and tried to open it, a message came out to let me format the SD card. But I didn’t want to format it because it contained my important photos. I know the card is damaged and I am here requesting you to tell me where to free download SD card recovery software.

A: You’re completely right. The photos are still on the SD card till new data are written in and overwrite the photo files. And undoubtedly downloading a photo recovery program is the best solution for this matter. But it is always not easy to find a suitable freeware and use it to recover lost photos.

Data loss on removable devices takes place so frequently when we transfer or store data temporarily, which can be made by many causes including improper operation, system crash and virus infection. The SD card in above case is most probably logically damaged, so the system asks us to format it so that we can use it again. But we have important photos on it, so we prefer to free download SD card recovery software to get the missing photos back with it.

Although there are considerable photo recovery programs on the Internet, many of them are inferior programs or aren’t free-to-use. Therefore, here we’d like to recommend MiniTool Power Data Recovery, which is an all-in-one freeware and owns powerful functions.

There are five modules built in the program and we are supposed to choose the most appropriate one specially to accomplish the operation of photo recovery. The data recovery software boasts powerful photo recovery ability, which can recover lost photos and other files from hard disk, SD card, mobile phone memory card, memory stick, USB flash disk, CD-ROM, CD-R, etc. And MiniTool Power Data Recovery provides free edition which enable us to free recover 1 GB files. What’s better, because the operating interface is very easy-to-understand and friendly, we can perform photo recovery independently after we free download SD card recovery software.