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Quick Formatted Kingston Digital Micro SDHC Flash Card
Have you ever quick formatted your micro SDHC card no matter what reason is? It may be formatted by error or by intention. On many occasions, people want to get their lost files and folders back from the quick formatted micro SDHC card. Have you ever thought of this, and do you have any idea what the exact way is? You may never have a try, or have a try but fail at last. Actually, it is an easy task to restore lost information from the formatted micro SDHC card with data recovery software.
Case of quick formatting the Kingston micro SDHC card
I bought a micro SDHC card from Kingston last year and it is really useful and helpful. I can take a lot of pictures and save them on it and download as much as music I like on it but don't need to worry about there is not enough space to store them. But happy time is short; the micro SDHC card was quick formatted due to a mistake. I know it is usable though being formatted, but what I feel terrible is that all information saved on it has been lost. Can I get all my losses back? -Angel from LA
How to retrieve lost files from the quick formatted micro SDHC card with data recovery software
Data saved on the micro SDHC card could be retrieved easily after being quick formatted as long as it has not been overwritten by any new content. What you need is data recovery software, a powerful data recovery tool, which is easy to use. Here are its guiding steps as follows to show you how it works:
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 during the process of data restoration
What we need in the process of data recovery is carefulness, because there are some aspects we should take notice of. We may fail to get all we needed back from the quick formatted memory card micro SDHC card even though under the help of data recovery software if we ignore something. We may just restore part of lost files or just none on that condition. Here are the things as follows we should pay attention to:
1. Stop using the micro SDHC card once it being quick formatted. You should use the formatted micro SDHC card neither on the digital devices such as phone nor on the computer. It is better to plug it out of those devices and place it in a safe place like lock it before knowing how to get back data saved on it. The aim is to avoid any new data is stored on it. The lost information is never able to be restored as long as it is overwritten by new files.
2. Do not reformat the micro SDHC card. Some people do not know how to retrieve the lost information but try any possible way, and one of them is to format the quick formatted micro SDHC card one more time or more times. As a matter of fact, the reformatting action not only can not get the losses back but also will cause the second damage to the micro SDHC card or its files, which may reduce the chance to data restoration.
3. Do not download and install the data recovery tool on the quick formatted micro SDHC card. The formatted micro SDHC card is also one of the choices to save the data retrieval tool when choose location to save it. You are not suggested to store the data recovery tool on it.
4. Do not store the files to be recovered on the quick formatted micro SDHC card directly. It is better to choose one of the computer hard disks as the location to save information to be restored after previewing. You can remove them to the micro SDHC card after all needed data has been retrieved successfully, or you may not be able to get back all losses.
Other popular brands of micro SDHC card
We can purchase micro SDHC card from Kingston and we also can buy one from other brands stores, because Kingston is just one manufactures of micro SDHC card. There are many other popular and famous brands of micro SDHC card in addition to Kingston, here are some common manufactures of micro SDHC card below: Kingston, Samsung, SanDisk, Toshiba, Sony, Transcend Information, Maxell, LEXAR, Yisheng, Kingmax.
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