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What is smart media card?

smart media card

Smart Media is a flash memory card standard owned by Toshiba, with capacities ranging from 2 MB to 128 MB.

In 1995, Toshiba Corporation created the Smart Media card in attempt to replace the floppy disk and although it failed to do so, the Smart Media card was used in many types of storage devices. The Smart Media card is one of the oldest of the portable media formats still in (limited) use today. It is a removable flash memory card that can be used in several different types of digital devices; including digital cameras, digital music players (mp3 players), digital voice recorders and PDAs.

With the development of Smart Media cards, more and more people begin to use Smart Media cards. Normally, people will store many pictures and photos on the Smart Media cards. So with the widely use of Smart Media cards, Smart Media cards data loss become a prominent problem. Even when you take every precaution to avoid it, the day may still come when you have to face it. Smart Media cards files recovery is usually the first place people turn to solve their Smart Media cards files recovery issues. Usually, a free Smart Media cards files recovery software will be the best choice.

The best and free Smart Media cards files recovery software

EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition is a powerful and free card recovery software, which can recover lost files from Smart Media cards, Compact Flash (CF) card, memory stick, Secure Digital Card (SD Card) including undelete files from Smart Media cards, unformat cards, and do cards raw recovery, etc. It supports Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 Operating System. Moreover, this free digital camera memory recovery software works well with dynamic disk, RAID and EXT2/EXT3 file system. Apart from removable media, EaseUS free data recovery software also supports hard drive disk, external hard drive, hardware RAID, etc.

How to recover files from smart media cards?

Step A: Launch Smart Media cards files recovery software, and choose a module according to the reason for data loss. "Deleted File Recovery" is for deletion recovery, "Complete Recovery" is for format recovery, and "Partition Recovery" is used when partition is lost or corrupted.

Recover file from Smart media cards
Smart media cards files recovery software

Step B: Select the file types you want to recover and then choose Smart Media cards where files are and click "NEXT" to start searching, and then you will see a list of volumes where data loss possibly happens. After that, Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will allow you to choose 4 volumes at best to recover. And then, press "NEXT" button, it will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the files. You will see file/folder tree very soon.

Recover file from Smart media cards
Smart media cards files recovery - searching

Step C: Preview the files and select the lost files that you want to recover and press the "Next" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save files.

Recover file from Smart media cards
Smart media cards files recovery - preview