Secure digital (SD) card is a type of flash memory cards that is used in various portable electronic devices as a storage media. Most of portable devices such as video camcorder, digital camera, mobile phones, and music player etc use SD card for storing the media files. The loss of media files such as digital photos, audio songs, and videos on the SD card may take place due to various situations. The most common scenario in which media files on the SD card may get delete or loss is accidental formatting of SD card. In such case, you need to make use of good third party memory card recovery software in order to recover files from formatted SD card.
SD card use non-volatile flash memory for data storage. Depending upon the storage capacity and data transfer speed SD cards are divided into three categories namely Standard Capacity (SDSC) card, High Capacity (SDHC) card, and extended Capacity (SDXC) card. Storage capacity of SDSC cards ranges from 2MB to 2GB although they are available up to 4GB. SDHC cards are physically identical to SDSC cards and they are available with storage capacity up to 32GB. SDHC cards can be formatted with FAT32 file system and they are widely used in video camcorder and digital camera. SDXC cards are available with storage capacity up to 2TB and they can be formatted with Ext FAT file system. The most prominent situations in which the SD car may be formatted are corruption of file system, accidental formatting of SD card in a digital camera, and accidental formatting of SD card when it is connected to computer.
File system on the SD card may get corrupt due to various situations like unexpected system shutdown caused by power outage when SD card is connected, accidentally ejecting the SD card from digital camera or card reader when media files transmission process is in progress, and accidentally choosing ‘Format’ option in a digital camera and immediately cancelling it etc. However, file system is corrupted and you have connected the SD card to computer then you may get the error message on display screen saying that ‘device is not formatted’. In such kind of situation, the SD card is to be formatted for further use.
Most of the digital cameras are provided with the special function called ‘Format’. Format option is used to cleanup the memory card that is used in digital camera. Formatting of SD card in digital camera involves erasing of medial files saved on it and creating a new file system. Accidental formatting of SD card in digital camera may result in loss of media files.
You can recover deleted or lost media files from SD card even after formatting it. This is possible by using Remo Recover (Windows) – Media Edition software. Download this software so that you can use it to recover files from formatted SD card. This software effectively recovers the deleted or lost media files from various storage devices such as secure digital (SD) card, extreme digital (XD) card, Multimedia card, compact flash card, iPod, USB flash drive, and external hard drive etc.