How to recover data from formatted memory card?

Memory card formatted

Did you format your memory card by accident when receiving this notice "The disk is not formatted, do you want to format it now?". Or did you right click your drive and the format the drive by accident? If there is something wrong with your PC or memory card port, then it became troublesome for PC to read memory card and might read with error. If you ever formatted the memory card and then realized there are something important in it. However, the truth is format has been performed.

What should we do?

First, don't be panic. Everything has a way.

Second, having a little knowledge of data recovery - your files are recoverable after formatting no matter it is a quick format or full format. Unless your files have been overwritten by new files, there is still a great chance for you to retrieve lost data. Usually, the recovery chances vary in how much the card has been formatted and how much file has been written. It can be said that the chances of recovering data will increase if you just performed the formatting and does not take any new file but will decrease if you already take some new files.

Third, protect the data lost area and no new files being written into it. If you take 1 more photos in the memory card, then it is likely that there is 1 photo permanently lost.

Our advice

Stop using the memory card and do not take any new photo or file into the card.

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