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How to recover data after a memory card is formatted

Updated By Tom On Dec 9, 2022, 10:28 pm

Memory card is an independent storage medium applied to mobile phones, digital cameras, laptops, MP3 and other digital products. When a memory card is not enough, people usually choose to delete some useless content to make storage space. However, it is inevitable that important files will be deleted due to errors. In this case, in order to prevent data from being overwritten, we suggest that you stop writing new data to the device. Then scan with the help of professional data recovery software. Here, we take "Data Recovery" as an example to introduce the memory card data recovery method.

How to recover data after a memory card is formatted

Step 1: Open the Data Recovery Master, official website on a Windows computer, download and install the software for free.

Step 2: Open Data Recovery, then connect the memory card to the computer through a card reader, and select the "U disk/memory card recovery" mode.

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Step 3: Select the original data storage location. The file storage location here is the memory card whose data has been deleted by mistake. Then click the "Start Scanning" button below, and Geekersoft Data Recovery Master will automatically scan the memory card. The scanning time depends on the number and size of files on the device. Generally, it only takes 3-5 minutes to scan 1G files. Please be patient.

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Step 4: After scanning, the recoverable data files will be displayed in the scanning results. You can click the "Preview Mode" at the bottom right to preview the photos, files and other files to be restored.

Step 5: Finally, check the files to be restored, and click the "Restore" button in the lower right corner. Considering that restoring the files to their original location may overwrite the existing file data in the memory card, causing secondary damage to the data, it is recommended that you save the file to the computer first, and then copy it to other memory cards.

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How to recover data after a memory card is formatted summary

This is an introduction to the recovery method of memory card data. Geekersoft Data Recovery Master also works for devices such as the Recycle Bin and USB flash disk that are accidentally emptied or deleted. You can have a try.