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How to Recover Data from Formatted USB Drive and SD card?

Many camera guide will require the users to format the memory card when you first use it, and it’s very easy to operate. But if your USB flash drive or SD card which has lost of important photos and videos got wiped off through formatting because of this function. It seems that takes away part of your life from that moment.

However, the good news is that most of the data can be recovered from flash drives and SD cards. In this article I will show you how you can recover your data from formatted USB Flash Drives and SD Cards.

What can cause someone to lose data from one’s USB flash drives and SD cards.

• Accidentally format a USB flash drive or SD card

• Virus attacks

• Power surges and electro-static discharge

• Not properly removing the USB flash drive from a computer

• Accidentally deleting files from USB flash drive or SD card

• Windows may ask if you want to format the USB flash drive

But the good news is that in most cases the lost data from USB Flash Drives and SD Cards can be restored so easily, usually quite simply by using data recovery tools. When you erase/delete a file from your device, it’s not really gone until the areas of the disk it used are overwritten by new information. The file can be recovered days or even weeks later with third-party data recovery software. There are a lot data recovery tools available, some of them free and some of them at a cost.

Let us look into some of these softwares that can be used to recover lost data from USB flash drive and SD cards.

Fireebok Data Recovery software

The Fireebok Data Recovery software allows you to restore all lost data due to deletion, formatting or even system crash or virus attack with no in-depth knowledge of USB drive format recovery. The only thing you need to do for USB drive format recovery is to choose what types of files you want to recover and where you lost your data.


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  • Data Recovery
    Recover data lost due to accidental deleting, formatting, virus infection,
    and other unknown reasons.

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Steps to use this software to recover

Step 1: Launch the program and Select the hard disk or USB device

choose lost volume recovery

Step 2: Choose "Lost Volume Recovery" and choose the scanning mode: Quick Search Volume, Completely Search Volume, then click "Start Scan" button

choose lost volume recovery

Step 3: During the volume scanning, all found volumes will be added to the table again. And they will be marked the gray icon and named with "Lost Volume Num".

find lost volume

Step 4: After the scanning has completed, all the volumes will be listed into the table view. You can choose the right volume by the size of volume.

scan find lost partition

Step 5: There are two scanning methods for the lost volume: Volume Recovery and Deep Recovery. We choose the volume recovery to scan here. Click "Start Scan" button to start the scanning of the selected volume.

scan lost volume result

Step 6: Preview the scanning result and select them to save to the different disk or USB device.

scan lost volume result

 

Complete USB drive format recovery with the Fireebok Data Recovery software. After these steps above, you will be able to perform format recovery for USB drive to recover files from formatted USB drive.

 

Other softwares that you can also use are:

Recover My Files

This software that you can try and has been tested by the US Department of Homeland and give thumps up for this software. This data recovery software recovers deleted files emptied from the Windows Recycle Bin, files lost due to the format or re-install of a hard drive, or files removed by a virus, Trojan infection, unexpected system shutdown or software failure as well as USB sticks and camera cards.

partion recovery result

Card Recovery

This is another software you can use to recover vital data that has been lost from your SD card. Card Recovery is a photo recovery software designed specifically for memory card used by digital camera or phone. Its makers claim it can recover lost, deleted, corrupted or formatted photos and video files from various memory cards. It supports almost all memory card types including SD Card, MicroSD, and more. So you can now recover your deleted data either from USB Flash Drives or SD Cards

card file recovery

 

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