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How to Restore Data You Formatted Phone Mini SD Card

Have you ever formatted your phone? What would you do if you still need files lost by formatted no matter what reason is? If you still failed after a large amount of trial, please don't be upset, yet. There must be other ways which you have not tried, because you could retrieve the lost information definitely. Data recovery software, which specializes in data recovery, could restore the lost data from formatted phone mini SD card with 100% guarantee.

Example of data loss happen to the formatted phone mini SD card

I formatted my phone memory card mini SD card because of a false operation. As a result, all files and folders saved on it have been lost. Those lost files are precious and crucial for me, so it is the last choice to lose them. They are photos when I traveled with my friends, songs collected by my mother and I, and videos took by my classmates at my birthday. All of them are valuable memories of mine. So is there any suggestion to what should I do? - Lamia from New Zealand

How to retrieve lost files from formatted phone mini SD card by data recovery software

You should perform your recovery step by step as follows after you have download and mount the data recovery software on your computer:

Recover data from formatted mini SD card

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the mini SD to your computer. Then, launch the software and select a recovery module.

1Insert the mini SD card to the computer. Download, install and run the data recovery software.
2Select the scan option according to your data loss situation and start to scan.
3Preview the retrievable files after scanning and choose the needed to recover.
4Choose the location to save the recovered data. Save on the computer disk first.

Different formatted phone scenarios

You may format your phone mini SD card for different reasons, but all those formatting will lead to data losing. But fortunately, you could restore all the lost information by data recovery software as long as they are not been overwritten. Here are some common phone mini SD card formatting scenarios below:

1. Formatted by mistake.

2. Formatted by intention such as for fun.

3. Formatted based on the RAW file system recommendation.

Could information saved on phone be restored after formatted with data recovery tool?

You may want to know whether data saved on phone memory could be retrieved after cell phone was formatted if you have restored the lost data from the formatted mini SD card efficiently. The answer is absolutely it could be retrieved as same as files saved on the SD card. You just need to connect your formatted cell phone and recover information in it with the similar procedure to formatted SD card. But thing you should take notice of is to stop using the formatted phone until the lost data have been restored successfully.

Difference between SD card and mini SD card

Secure digital card is called SD card for short. Mini SD card and micro SD card is derived from it. Mini SD card has a smaller size compared with SD card and its size is a half or a quarter of SD card and it produced by SANDISK and Panasonic. But there is no big difference between its storage capacities. SD card has variety volumes such as 512MB, 1GB, 2 GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and so on, and mini SD cards' capacities range 32MB from 16GB. As a result, mini SD card could save more space for digital devices with the big volume. SD card could be used to phones, cameras, MP3, MP4 and other digital devices. Mini SD card are mainly used to cell phones and other digital devices which look like tiny.

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