SanDisk Secure Digital (SD) cards are available in different storage capacities, ranging between 2 MB and 64 GB. Facilitated with excellent storage features, these cards are widely used in digital cameras, camcorders, notebooks, portable media players, cell phones, PDAs, and other devices. These cards generally come pre-formatted with FAT16 or FAT32 file system. To access the card contents, Sandisk cards require healthy ubiquity of file system or otherwise, serious data loss problems can occur. To deal with such problems, the SanDisk SD card owner needs a complete data backup. However, if it fails to restore from the backup, a Deleted picture recovery software can help recovering all the lost pictures and other digital files.

As one of the realistic problem, a SanDisk SD card owner might observe its pictures unexpectedly being deleted from the card. For no apparent cause, the user may experience a gradual loss of pictures from these SD cards. Such problems are grave for a photo-enthusiast or professional photographer.

Cause

The above behavior can result if the SanDisk SD card is either not formatted properly or is corrupted due to file system issues.

Each of the files that you store on SD cards mark an entry of its location in FAT table. The digital device or any other system cannot access the file if this entry is lost or get corrupt.

Solution

You need to apply the below sequence of steps to troubleshoot such problems:

1. Backup all the left pictures and files on a reliable backup media

2. Reformat the SanDisk card in the associated digital camera or device. This will install a fresh file system and make the card free from errors

3. Restore files from backup

4. Use a third-party Deleted picture recovery utility to recover the lost or deleted files from the SD card