How to Perform Formatted SD Card Recovery

• Can I Recover Files from My Formatted SD Card?
• Perform Formatted card recovery in 3 Steps
• Video Tutorial of Formatted SD Card Recovery

Part 1Can I Recover Files from My Formatted SD Card?

Since you have not put any new data onto your formatted SD card, there's a great chance you can regain data from your formatted SD card.

Formatted SD card recovery is like deleted file recovery:  You just need to find data recovery software and use the software to scan your formatted card. Here I highly recommend Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac for you. It is one of the best data recovery programs that enables you to recover data like photos, videos, audio, document files, etc from formatted card. No matter what kind of memory card you are using, Wondershare Data Recovery is able to help you.

Part 2Perform Formatted SD Card Recovery in 3 Steps

Now let’s try with Wondershare Data Recovery for Windows users. If you are a Mac user, please download the Mac version.

Note: Please be sure that your formatted card can still be recognized by your computer.

Step 1: Select File Type to Perform Formatted SD card recovery

To recover data from formatted SD card, you can go to select the option "All File Type" to start

Step 2: Select Your Formatted Card to Scan for Lost Files

In this step, the program will display all local hard drives and connect storage devices in your computer. You just need to select the one of your formatted card and click "Start" to scan for lost files.

Step 3: Go to Deep Scan SD Card

If quick scan can't find your lost data, you can go to deep scan your formatted SD card. It will deeply search SD card,but it will take more time.

Step 4: Preview Found Files and Recover Selectively

After the scan, all found files in your formatted card will be displayed in categories or paths. You can preview photos one by one and preview the name of other files so as to check whether they are what you are going to recover or not. You can also search you wanted files by specifying file name in the searching bar.

In the end, select files you want to recover and click "Recover" to save them to your computer.

Note: Please do not save the recovered files back to your formatted card after the recovery.