How to retrieve formatted photos?

A question from forum: "How can I retrieve formatted photos from SD 2GB memory card?"

This is a frequently asked question. Photo enthusiasts and digital camera players would often face this kind of embarrassed situation such as mistakenly press the "format button", have to format card before using, etc. Once such things happen, you want to retrieve the formatted photos because the photos are all your precious memories.

To retrieve formatted photos, you must remember not to use the formatted disks or memory cards anymore before you have completed retrieving formatted photos. Any action you take would overwrite the data space on your disks or your cards and make your retrieving process unsuccessful.

After you have well protected your disks or cards, there're two options for you: retrieving formatted photos with a do-it-yourself recovery software or sending the problem disk or card to recovery service. Usually, you can retrieve formatted photos by yourself. Also, to avoid data overwriting, you need to install recovery software on another disk other than the problem disk or card, and the recovery results need to be stored in another disk too.

I will show you a step-to-step guide to retrieve formatted photos with Wondershare Photo Recovery. Free download and install Photo Recovery here.

Step 1: Use a card reader to connect your formatted camera card to a computer and make sure where it is located. If you formatted photos in your hard disk, you can also connect your HD to another computer.

Step 2: Download and install the free version of Wondershare Photo Recovery. Start Wondershare Photo Recovery, find the HD or camera card you want to recover in the left list and click "NEXT" to start the automatic scanning process.

Step 3: After you get a list of all recoverable photos on your memory card, choose the ones you want to recover and click "NEXT".

Step4: Select a folder to store the recovered photos. Click "NEXT" and the photos would be recovered successfully.

Tips: If you have videos or audios recorded on your camera card, you can use Wondershare Data Recovery to recover them.