What can you do if you need to perform SD Card format recovery when you accidently formatted it? All the files on the SD Card will be lost and cannot be accessed if you did not make a backup previously. This sad thing always happens, say, if you lent your Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS to one of your friends and when it came back, all your photos on your camera has been formatted, do you have any idea to do SD card format recovery to get your precious photos or any other importance files back? Now, this article will give you the solution to recover data from formatted SD card. "Complete Recovery" built-in EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard will do the magic job for you to recover the formatted SD card.

What's a SD card?

SD card, short for Secure Digital card, is a highly-sophisticated and non-volatile memory card format developed by Matsushita, SanDisk, and Toshiba for use in portable devices. It is available in standard and high-capacity formats along with a variety of speed classes. Today it is widely used in digital cameras, handheld computers, PDAs, mobile phones, GPS receivers, and video game consoles. The capacities of Standard SD card range from 4 MB to 4 GB, and for high capacity SDHC cards from 4 GB to 32 GB as of 2008. Announced at the 2009 CES a new specification (SDXC) (Extended Capacity) will allow for 2TB capacity cards. For example, a camera stores images digitally rather than record them on film. Once a picture has been taken, it can be downloaded to a computer system, and then manipulated with a graphics program and printed. And SD card in camera is used for image storage.

Besides, using decoder software, a SD compatible device can play music, video clips and more without a drive mechanism like those in CD and DVD players. This allows the equipment to be more compact and gives product designers new creative freedom. Reliability is also improved through the elimination of skipping on music and video files.

So, as the widely use of SD card, data loss from SD card also happens in our daily life, among which, losing data due to format is a common situation. If so, you need reliable data recovery software to perform SD card format recovery. The easy recovery software - EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard is the best choice for computer users to do SD card format recovery under Windows environment.

How to recover from formatted SD card with Data Recovery Wizard?

Data Recovery Wizard is easy to use. From users' point of view, EaseUS devotes to developing user-friendly software. You need not to have in-depth knowledge to perform SD Card format recovery. That the only thing you really need to tell it is which module to use according to the reasons of data loss. There are three modules on Data Recovery Wizard as the picture below. "Delete File Recovery" is for recovering deleted data; "Partition Recovery" for recovering data from lost partition and "Complete Recovery" is designed for recovering files after format, files after crash, etc. For SD card format recovery, you need to choose the "Complete Recovery" module.

There are three modules on Data Recovery Wizard as the picture below. "Delete File Recovery" is for recovering deleted data; "Partition Recovery" for recovering data from lost partition and "Complete Recovery" for recovering files after format, files after crash, etc. For SD card format recovery, you need to choose the "Complete Recovery" module.

The step-by-step instruction of recovering from formatted SD card is as following:

Step 1: launch the software, and click "Complete Recovery" module. Select the file types you want to recover and then a list of volumes on the drives found in your system will be listed. If the volume does not have a drive letter, then the volume will be listed at the hindmost and the drive letter will be instead by "*".

Step 2: Choose the SD card that was formatted and click "NEXT" to start searching on this volume. The Intelligent Searching module will scan the selected volume, collect and analyze every byte on the volume, then show you a list of volumes which are possible on it.

Step 3: After this scanning is finished, Data Recovery Wizard will allow you choosing 4 volumes at best to recover the data. And then, press "NEXT" button, the Data Recovery Wizard will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Step 4: Select the file or directory that you want to recover and press the "NEXT" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save the data.

After the four steps, you will recover files from formatted SD card. The quicker you perform SD card format recovery, the more chance you will get your files back. Once your SD card is overwritten, you will lose the chance to recover files from formatted SD card forever. So there is no time for you to regret for not taking good care or backing up the SD card, stop using the SD card immediately and hurry up to try data recovery software to recover your formatted SD card.

If you are not sure whether Data Recovery Wizard will recover your wanted files from formatted SD card, before purchase you can free download a demo of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard here to see whether it will find your wanted files from formatted SD card or not. EaseUS also provides a 30-day money back guarantee if you are not satisfied with its products. Just try it to recover files from formatted SD card.

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