Secure Digital or SD card is a tiny non-volatile memory card that is widely used in portable devices such as mobiles, digital cameras and so on. SD card can store data like images, videos, music, documents and many more. As the memory card is used on different electronic devices, there are strong possibilities of memory card becoming corrupt. Once your card has become corrupt, there are lots of reasons that can be responsible for such corruptions. So, the important thing you must take care about that if you want to recover your files after corruption of SD card you need to take a help of one of the best recovery software.
Recover Flash Card software is one of the best recovery software that can recover data from SD card without formatting it. By using its smart algorithms, it scans the memory card and recovers lost or deleted files. But, before getting started with recovery session you must make a sure that your SD card is actually get corrupted or not, because sometimes due to faulty card reader you have to face some unwanted errors. So, you can firstly insert your SD card to different card reader and check that whether you are getting your data back or not. If not, then it will become clear that there is some corruption in SD card. In such case, you have to format SD card for resetting memory card as a fresh one. But, formatting of memory card will wipe out entire stored data of SD card which will reduce the chance of data recovery from SD card. So, you must use Recover Flash Card software as soon as possible and can perform file recovery from unformatted SD card. This reliable software can easily be used to recover data from unformatted SD card on Windows based OS with pretty much ease.
Some of the reasons that could possibly be the reasons for the file recovery from unformatted SD card are as follows:
- Frequently Usage of same SD Card: Usage of the same SD card on different portable devices lead to damaging your SD card file system and that could show formatting errors while accessing data of SD card.
- Virus Attack: If your SD card is infected by infectious virus, then SD card becomes unreadable and data can get deleted from SD card while scanning by updated Antivirus software.
- Interrupted Transferring: Any interruption that occurs at a time of transferring your precious files from SD card to computer or vice versa may damage SD card.
- File System Corruption: File system holds all the important information about all the file types of your SD card. It may get corrupt due to insufficient disk space during file system conversion or due to an interrupt caused during transfer process or conversion process. So any corruption to it in turn corrupts your SD card, making it impossible to access.
Now, check out some of the outstanding features that can help you to know more detail information about this software and let you know how it helps on file recovery from unformatted SD card:
- It supports data recovery from memory card without formatting, which has formatted with ExFAT, FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, HFS, and HFSX file systems.
- Easily recovers different file formats from flash memory cards by the help of Office result. Some of the popular formats are AVI, DOCX, JPG, GIF, MOV, WMV, PowerPoint presentation files, spreadsheets, and so on.
- After retrieving files from unformatted SD card, you can preview the recovered files in File Type View (shows files on basis of file types) and Data View (shows files on basis of file hierarchy).
- Files that are listed after completion of scanning procedure can be sorted on basis of file name, file size, creation date, and file format.
- This software recovers files from SD card of digital camera and different gadgets such as camcorder, mobile phone, iPods, etc.
You need to follow below mentioned steps to recover files from unformatted SD card:
Step 1: Connect flash card to your computer using card reader. Download and install free demo version of Recover Flash Card software.
Step 2: Launch this software by double clicking the shortcut icon on desktop. The main screen appears with three options like "Recover Files", "Recover Photos" and "Recover Drives". Select "Recover Photos"option to recover deleted or lost photos from unformatted SD cards as shown in Figure 1.
Fig 1:Main Screen
Step 3: Select "Recover Deleted Photos" option to recover photos that have been deleted or select "Recover Lost Photos" option to recover files that have been lost from the next screen an d then select the memory card and click "Next" button as shown in Figure 2.
Fig 2: Select Memory Card Drive
Step 4: You can select different file types from next screen. If you don’t want to select different file types then skip this step by clicking "Skip" button as shown in Figure 3. Once you click "Skip" button, the software starts scanning the selected SD card.
Fig 3: Select File Type
Step 5: After the scanning process, you can view recovered photos using "File Type" or "Data Type View" option as shown in Figure 4
Fig 4: Recovered Files
