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I quick formatted my 16g SD card in error
Have you ever quick formatted the 16G SD memory card? Actually, maybe most of us have formatted SD card by error, and we can see nothing on the secure digital memory card after the accidental format. But sometimes we want to view the original information saved on the SD card after the format if it was important or useful. Is it flexible to access those erased files on the formatted SD memory card? As a mater of fact, we can try to get them back.
Case of quick formatting the 16G SD card
I quick formatted my 16g SD card in error and lost all files and folders stored on it at the old time days ago. I have saved a lot of files useful and vital on the secure digital memory card previously, such as the image files, audio files, and so on. I wanted to get them back to access them again, but is it flexible? There may be a way to get those lost contents back from the quick formatted SD card, but unfortunately, I do not know what it is. Can you kindly tell me? -Merit from New York
How to restore lost information from quick formatted SD card with data recovery software
We can try to use the data recovery software to get the lost files back from the quick formatted 16g SD card. It is better not to perform any operation on the formatted SD memory card before the files recovery in order to retrieve data as much as needed. The following steps aim to tell us how to perform in detail:
Recover data from SD card
Preparation: Connect the SD card to your computer and download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Different cases in which SD card is quick formatted
It is quick to delete all files and folders off the secure digital memory card by formatting it, so some of us may choose to format the SD card to delete contents off it entirely. Do you know that we may format the SD memory card in other cases? In other words, the SD card may be formatted because of other reasons. Generally, speaking, we can perform the formatted SD card data recovery to restore its original; files no matter which cases they are. Here are some different cases in which SD card is quick formatted as follows:
1. The SD card was quick formatted by mistake. One of the situations that the SD memory card was quick formatted is the accidental format, which means that the secure digital memory card was quick formatted in error. It may because that we click the quick format option by mistake or others. And we can try to get the lost information back from the quick formatted SD card later.
2. The SD memory card turned to raw file system. We need to format the secure digital memory card before use it normally when it was raw file system, because we would be prompted that disk is not formatted and do you want to format it now. So we may chose to quick format the SD card at once. Actually, it is better to perform the files recovery at first and then format the memory card if we wanted to access its previous files.
3. Files saved on the secure digital memory card were inaccessible. Sometimes we may not be able to open the files saved on the SD card. And then some of us may tend to format the secure digital memory card to save new contents on it. It is true that we need to format the SD memory card if contents saved on it previously were inaccessible. We can try to get the original data back after quick formatting the SD card.
4. Other situations that the SD card may be quick formatted and we can perform files recovery on it.
Quick formatted SD card and complete formatted SD card
Generally speaking, we would be asked to choose quick format and complete format when tend to format the SD card. They are two ways to format the SD memory card, and we can choose quick format or complete format, and it will cost less time to quick format the SD card.
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