How Can I Recover Deleted Photos after Formatting the Memory Card

Question: This morning, I plugged my SD card from my Cannon digital camera into my Dell laptop for backing up some newly taken pictures. But, it asked me if I want to “format” this SD card. Not knowing what was going on, I clicked “OK”. After a while, I finally realized that I had deleted all these photos by the formatting. What had I done? Is there a way to unformat this SD card? If you know anything about it, please let me know! Thank you in advance!

-- by Marcylooke from Tomsguide

With the advent of information era, many users have gone through the same upset experience of formatting the memory card of digital camera like Marcylooke did. There are also users formatting their computer hard drives, USB flash drives, memory sticks and other devices and then regretting doing so. What if you happen to be one of them? What would you do to recover lost photos after formatting?

What Should You Do When You Format a Memory Card

When you realize you have deleted all photos in your memory card by formatting, you should stop using that memory card immediately! Or you should pull out the memory card in case that somebody else may carry out any operation. The reason for doing so is that as long as your memory card is not overwritten, there is a possibility for you to unformat the memory card.

The Way to Retrieve Photo from Formatted Memory Card

It is wise to ask data recovery software for help when you are faced with data recovery issues. To address the problem of unformatting memory card, you can choose Damaged Partition Recovery provided by MiniTool Power Data Recovery. In this module, lost files could be recovered as long as the partition exists. Here are the tutorials:

Preparatory work:

1.         Download and install MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition.

2.         Connect the formatted memory card to your PC.

Step 1. Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition and then click Damaged Partition Recovery. 

Step 2. Choose the formatted memory card to make a full scan. Here partition F is used as an alternative.

Note: the way to recover data from a memory card is as the same as from a partition in Damaged Partition Recovery.

Step 3. Unfold the file structure on the left side to choose the files you want to retrieve and then click Save button to select a destination folder. The recovery will be finished soon.

Note: MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition only allows you to recover 1 GB data. If you want more, you need to purchase a license.

After reading the above content, you know how convenient it is to recover photos after formatting by using MiniTool Power Data Recovery Free Edition. Now try Damaged Partition Recovery module by yourself.