SD cards are the most common type of memory cards used in cell phones, music players, digital camera, etc. Although all these devices have their own inbuilt memory to save more pictures, videos and other data; external memory cards are used. SD cards are portable and can be used in many devices which make the data transfer very easy. However, there are many reasons due to which you might lose all the data saved on it. The most common and most disastrous is formatting which results in a huge data loss. Formatting can be of following types –

• Accidental formatting – Suppose you have connected your device to a computer system for transferring data or for viewing the pics that you have recently clicked. At that moment you decided to format a drive containing some unwanted data but accidentally selected the external device. This leads to a huge data loss as the formatting of SD card is done unintentionally. Accidental formatting might also have been performed from the device itself. As format option resided at the same place as the Rename and Eject options; therefore, the chances of pressing format option are common.
• Intentional formatting – Sometimes the user format the SD card thinking that the files that are saved on it are not required or they have a backup; but later realize that the files were important and you need them back. The backup too might not have been updated with the latest files or it might get corrupt.
• Forced formatting – When an external device like SD card gets corrupted or gets infected by a serious virus, then the user encounter “Drive not formatted. Do you want to format it now?” error. This error doesn’t allow the user to open the SD card and view its contents until and unless the formatting is performed. Moreover, if the formatting is performed then it will result in the loss of all the data saved on that SD card. In this way you will be at a total loss as you don’t even get a chance to take a backup of your important data.

Formatting might have also been performed if the drive displays as RAW. To know how to rescue data from the raw disk drive, the tool mentioned here will be the best option,.

All the above-mentioned data loss scenarios seem very scary but with formatted SD card recovery tool, you can recover data from formatted SD card very easily. Most of the users think that formatting deletes the data permanently but that is just a myth. Actually, until the formatted files get overwritten by new files, you can easily recover data from formatted SD card using an efficient data recovery tool. This tool has various unique and effective features that help in recovering data from formatted SD card. It has an easy to use interface that can be operated by even a non-technical person. Formatted SD card recovery tool makes use of its powerful scanning engine to locate formatted data on the SD card and bring it back without any difficulty.

The software supports to restore formatted hard drive Mac OS X system and also is available for Windows OS which helps the the user in recovering data from formatted memory cards. The tool is capable of restoring data of over 300 file formats. It works on the read-only principle therefore; you need not to worry about other data being modified.

Following are the steps for recovering data from formatted sd card?

For recovering data from formatted SD card, connect the affected SD card to a system and download the trial version of formatted SD card recovery software on it. After that follow the steps mentioned below –

Step i: Select "Recover Photos" option from the main screen and then choose either "Recover Deleted Photos" or "Recover Lost Photos" option

Figure 1: Home Screen

Step ii: Now choose the connected SD card and click Next

Figure 2: Select Memory Card

Step iii: After scanning the formatted SD card, the tool will display the recovered files. Preview and save then after buying the full version.

Figure 3: File Preview