How to Recover Data from Memory Card

• Need memory card data recovery?
• How to perform a memory card data recovery?

Part 1Need memory card data recovery?

Sounds familiar? There are more situations like that too you may come across in your daily life.You don’t have to worry though because there is always a solution to a problem. Before performing the solution, you need to pay attention to somet important steps that may decide whether you can get your photos back from the memory card. When you lose photos due to deletion, format, virus corruption or other reasons, the first thing you need to do is:

• Stop using the memory card to take new photos
• Don't transfer new data into the card
• Don't try to read the card when it turns to be inaccessible
• Don't trust memory card data recovery software easily
• Keep your card well and avoid any physical damage

There are important data retention tips. You can recover lost data from memory cards because the lost data is not really gone, it is just marked as useless, and the space it takes is reusable for new data. So once the new data is written on the card, the lost data will be overwritten and you can't recover it with any data recovery software for memory card. Also, many untrusted card data recovery software can make t even more difficult to regain lost data.Furthermore, physical damage also makes data unrecoverable.

Part 2How to perform a memory card data recovery?

Get a card data recovery software first: Wondershare Photo Recovery can be a good choice (or  Wondershare Photo Recovery for Mac.If you are using Mac OS X), which supports the photo recovery from compact flash chip card, multimedia card, XD, SD mini and micro card, secure digital card, extreme digital card (mobile phone card, digital camera card), Picture card and other USB multimedia storage devices. Most importantly, it's safe and easy to use.

Free download the card data recovery software below:

Let's take the Wondershare Data Recovery process for Windows as a try and do the memory card photo recovery step by step. If you are a Mac user, please visit the guide here.

Step 1: Connect the card to computer

Insert your memory card into the computer or connect the device directly to the computer with a USB cable.

Step 2: Select the type of files you want to recover. To recover deleted photos from memory card, go to select the option "Photo".

Step 3: Select your memory card on the section "External removable device" to start scanning deleted photos.

Step 4: After scanning completed, you can previewe the recover photos and save them to another storage device.

What you should pay attention is: Don't save the recovered photos on the original card again, because new files will overwrite the lost photos. If there is any photo missing, you still have the second chance to scan and recover them.

Note: Back up your data from memory card and don't let this happen again.