How to Recover Data from SanDisk CF Card in Windows/Mac

SanDisk CF card, the short name of SanDisk Compact Flash card, is a popular memory card. Compared with other memory cards like SD card, xd card, MemoryStick, etc., SanDisk CF card has a larger size and faster speed. Therefore, it's widely used in digital cameras.

• How to Recover Pictures from SanDisk CF Card
• Video Tutorial of SanDisk Memory Card Recovery

As a SanDisk CF card user, you may have experienced situations such as: accidentally deleted recent photos on SanDisk cf card; the card becomes corrupted or asks for a format before you access it; all pictures are suddenly missing, and things like this. When any of above mentioned problems happens to you, don't be upset and don’t throw away your card. What you need to do is stop sing the card and put it away. There's a good chance that you can recover photos from SanDisk CF card with SanDisk recovery software.

Part 1 How to Recover Pictures from SanDisk CF Card

Not all SanDisk recovery software really does what it tells. In order to recover SanDisk CF card pictures, you must get reliable software. It must support SanDisk cf card and it should be downloaded from a professional website and provide a free trial version which can help you check its functionality first. If you haven't got one, you can have my recommendation: Wondershare Data Recovery, or Wondershare Data Recovery for Mac. Both of them are 100% trustworthy and produced by a professional software company with a skilled support team. You can use them to recover deleted, formatted, inaccessible and other missing images from SanDisk CF card, as well as other cards, like SD card. The whole task can be finished in 3 simple steps no matter you're a Windows or Mac user.

Download the free trial version of SanDisk recovery software below now. Choose the right version for your system. Next, let's try the Windows version together.

Download and launch Wondershare Data Recovery on your computer, and connect your SanDisk CF memory card to the computer with a card reader. Follow the next simple steps to perform memory card data recovery.

Note: Remember to save the scan results if you're going to recover the found files later, to prevent data loss.

Step 1: Select the file type

To recover deleted or lost data from SanDisk CF card, you can select "All File Type" option to start.

Step 2: Scan lost photos on your SanDisk CF card

Next, your SanDisk CF card will appear as a drive letter. Select it and click "Scan" button to finding lost photos on it.

Step 3: Deep Scan SanDisk CF Card

Go to deep scan if quick scan can't find your lost data, it will deeply search your memory card but it will take more time than quick scan.

Step 4: Preview and recover pictures on SanDisk cf card

The scan will take a while. After it, you'll get a scan result containing all lost photos, videos and audio files. You can preview those photos one by one and "Recover" them all with one click.

Note: Don't save the recovered data on your original SanDisk CF card again. Find another place for it like on your computer or other external disk, just to be on the safe side.