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Reformatted SDHC Card SanDisk Kingston Samsung

It is not proper to format the SDHC card which has been formatted again in order to get the lost files back, no matter which brand the SDHC card is, such as SanDisk, Kingston, and Samsung. We can not recover any data which have been lost due to formatting. As a result, we need to restore files from the reformatted SDHC card after formatting it again. Can we get them back? Yes, there is still possibility for us to recover information from the reformatted SDHC card.

Case of reformatting the SanDisk SDHC card

I have a SanDisk SDHC card to which my English partner gave me last holiday. I never have used it before, and it is really useful for me since I use it to save files. But unfortunately, I formatted it by error and formatted it again accidentally. How terrible it is. There are many precious and valuable files saved on it in my daily life. What should I do to retrieve my lost contents from the reformatted SDHC card? Is there any one can kindly help me? Thank you whatever. –Anthony from New York

If we want to get the chance to recover lost data from the reformatted SDHC card, we need to ask the data recovery software for help. It may be able to help us get what we need from that reformatted SDHC card within a few steps easily. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to perform the format data recovery:er the TF card is formatted again as long as it remain the situation being reformatted. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to perform the data recovery:

Recover data from reformatted SDHC card

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the SDHC card to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.

1Connect the reformatted SDHC card to a card reader and then plug them into the computer.
2Download and mount the data recovery software on the aim computer.
3Run the data retrieval program on computer and later select the recovery model and object disk to scan.
4Preview contents in the list after the scan, preview them and pick up the needed to recover.

Attention should be paid to after reformatting SDHC card

We have got that there is a chance for us to get lost information back from the reformatted SDHC card, and the possible way is to use data recovery tool. But we can not say that we can retrieve those lost files with one hundred percent guarantee. There may be other corruption cases or those original data are overwritten by new information, or other situations that cause us can not recover the files wanted successfully. So in order to get the needed data completely, we should pay attention to some aspects. Here are some of them below:

1. Do not store any new information on the reformatted SDHC card. we may have back up some files before the SDHC card is formatted and reformatted. After reformatting the SDHC card, we may copy those backup on the SDHC card immediately. But if there are not enough files needed, we should not store them on eth SDHC card. We should restore the lost data at first and then save new contents on it.

2. Do not launch and save the data recovery tool and files to be restored on the reformatted SDHC card. We will be asked to select the location to save data recovery software when install it and to store files to be restored before tool start to recover them. It is better to save both of them on one of the computer hard disks available at first and remove them later.

3. Do not format the SDHC card which has been reformatted again. Some people tend to format the SDHC card again and again after formatting it once. Maybe they hope there would be magic that those lost files could be restored. But as a matter of fact, the reformatting action may damage the SDHC card and its data which is not visible at the second time. As a result, the opportunity to recover lost information is reduced after the reformatting.

4. Other cautions after formatting the SDHC card.

Popular brands of SDHC memory card

We have said that no matter which brand of SDHC card after being formatted, we can not recover those lost files by formatting it again. But we can retrieve them with the help of data recovery software. At the same, no matter which brand of SDHC card can be supported by data recovery tool. Here are some common brands of SDHC card as follows: Kingston, Samsung, SanDisk, Toshiba, Sony, Transcend Information, Maxell, LEXAR, Yisheng, Kingmax, and so on.

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