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How to Recover Pictures from SD Card?

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What is SD card?

SD card is a non-volatile memory card format developed by the SD Card Association which including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.Ltd（Panasonic）, SanDisk Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, etc. for use in portable devices. It has been commonly used in digital camera these days. Types of SD card including SD memory card, SDHC, miniSD, microSD. Convenient to carry as well as large storage capacity, it becomes more and more popular in our daily digital life. Nevertheless, every coin has two sides, sometimes, you mistakenly format SD card and lose extremely important files. Fortunately, your files occupy a given space on all memory cards. When you format the card, files or photos were stored is not deleted virtually and can be recovered.


Phenomena about lost photos in SD card

1. Connect your SD card reader to computer, the window pops up with message “you have to format SD card before using it”. After formatting SD card, all your pictures and video lose;

2. During the process of shooting, when open SD card images to manager them, mistakenly press “Format SD Card” button and all your precious images delete;

3. Accidently drop down your digital camera, and lose pictures which are saved before;

4. Lent your Canon 550D to one of your friends and come back with all your previous photos formatted.


How to Recover Pictures from SD Card? When you format SD card, First idea comes to your mind may be asking professor to help you. However, that will spend you a lot of money and take a great deal of time. If you are urgent to use the pictures in SD card, that sounds impracticable. Then how to recover pictures from formatted SD card with high speed as well as cheaper cost? There are many SD card data recovery program on the internet, such as MobiKin Doctor for Android, choose the right for you. Before recovering pictures from SD card, two things are necessary: SD card data recovery program, SD card reader(some camera have built-in SD card reader)

Step1. Download SD Card Data Recovery and install it on your PC

Step2. Remove SD card from your iPhone, in many cases, SD card was located on the back of the battery. Slide it out of its place.

Step3. Put SD card in card reader and connect it to your computer’s USB port. Make sure the card reader can read SD card.

Step4. Run SD Card Data Recovery, Usually, you can see SD card show as a drive letter in the explorer, select it and click “recover all”. All missed information will be recovered within minutes.

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