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Formatted Micro SDHC Card
What would you do if you happen to format your micro SDHC card? Do you have any idea how to get files and folders saved on it back? Micro SDHC card may be formatted by mistake, or may be formatted by others, or other possible reasons. Though reasons are different, the way to restore the lost data from the formatted micro SDHC card is the same. All the lost information could be retrieved with the help of data recovery software.
Case of formatting the micro SDHC card
I like to take photo with my phone and save them on the micro SDHC card which inserted to the phone. I have saved a lot of precious and vital pictures on it till now. I am not happy because those photos are inaccessible for the moment. The micro SDHC card was formatted by me accidentally. What should I do? Those photos mean a lot to me as a matter of fact. Is there any way for me to restore my lost pictures from the formatted micro SDHC card? -Sara from Mississippi
How to retrieve information from the formatted micro SDHC card with data recovery software
You can get back the lost files and folders from the formatted micro SDHC card with the assistant of data recovery software, because those lost files are not erased permanently actually. Data recovery tool could retrieve lost files after formatting quick and safely. The following steps aim to teach you how to perform the data restoration:
Recover data from formatted micro sdhc card
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect the micro sdhc card to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.
Attention should be paid to in order to restore lost files from formatted micro SDHC card
Information saved on the formatted micro SDHC card could be got back quickly and efficiently by data recovery tool. You can get it from information above. There must something goes wrong if you still have not restore the needed files form the formatted micro SDHC card according to the 5 steps above. There is something you should pay attention to so as to get back lost information from the formatted micro SDHC card successfully. Here are they as follows:
1. Do not save any new information on the micro SDHC card after being formatted. As we have discussed before, that data saved on the micro SDHC card is not disappeared truly after being formatted, either quick format or complete format. They are just hidden and still save on the formatted micro SDHC card. But any new data could overwrite them and make them lost forever, which means you can not retrieve them any more. So do not save any new data on the formatted micro SDHC card.
2. Do not format the micro SDHC card again after being formatted once. There would be a second damage to the micro SDHC card or information stored on it if you reformat the micro SDHC card. You can get back lost files from the formatted micro SDHC card totally, but the reformatting action will reduce the chance of data retrieval.
3. Do not download and launch the data restoration program on the formatted micro SDHC card when choose the location to save it. The reason is that data recovery tool also belong to one kind of new data and the micro SDHC card is the aim disk to scan by the data restoration tool (it can not be saved on the object disk).
4. Do not choose the formatted micro SDHC card as the location to save the retrieved contents chose. You may can not restore all needed information though you have chosen them in the list after scan if you choose the formatted micro SDHC card as the location to save files to be restored. So it is better to store them on the computer disks firstly.
Different situations that micro SDHC card is formatted
We may format our micro SDHC card by mistake, on purpose, by ourselves, by others, asked by the system when micro SDHC card shows RAW file system or other possible reasons. What's more, there are two way to format the micro SDHC card: quick format and complete format. No matter what reason and what way lead to the formatted micro SDHC card, information saved on it could be retrieved easily by the data recovery software as long as they have not been overwritten.
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