SD or Secure Digital is a digital memory card used in different portable devices like, digital cameras, mobile phones, media players, and others. Since, card storage capacities and their sizes change, SD card is found in various specifications such as SDHC, SDXC, microSD, and the like. SD cards are formatted to FAT or FAT32 file system and can get corrupted for multitude of reasons. These include virus attack, a disrupted data write, and careless handling. Though SD card formatting is the ultimate solution to make the card reusable, but this causes data loss. In such a situation to restore data, you need a backup or a SD card data recovery utility to extract lost files and folders.

For a better understanding of this problem, consider a digital camera with an SD card inserted. You decide to fill this SD card so that you can get a bunch of photos printed at the same time. In this attempt, you take some pictures, delete few of them, view them continuously, shoot some more, and so on. But suddenly to your surprise, the digital camera fails to recognize the SD card further and comes with the below error message:

“SD/TF card error”

The SD card is corrupted now. Trying to access the same SD card from a Windows or Mac computer brings no results.

As mentioned earlier, you can reformat the card and bring it back to a working state by reformatting the SD card. Keep in mind to reformat the card only in the digital device to which it is associated, not even in the computer. Other devices might not recognize the SD card formatting and corrupt it further.

But what about the data? Lost data can be recovered if you have a complete and valid backup available. But in other situations, get ready to spend some bucks on a third-party card data recovery software. These are easily available products that can extract lost or deleted digital files in no time from a corrupted or crashed digital storage media such as, SD cards. SD card recovery software are easy-to-use tools with interactive design.

Photo Recovery is one feature-rich solutions to recover lost or deleted data from a variety of digital storage media including SD cards. This card data recovery utility is available in two forms for Mac and Windows operating systems and supports most of the digital file formats for recovery.