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Jun112010

What is the best way to restore data from a formatted SD card?

miller asks:

I have a Kodak camera & SanDisk Ultra 2 card. I accidentally formatted it. Now I’m wondering what is best software to recover pictures from it?

Tagged: data recovery, file recovery, restore, sd card

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Dinesh-Krishna/100000361917718 Dinesh Krishna

Try out iCare Data Recovery Software, EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard 4.3.6.
http://www.makeuseof.com/ Aibek

Here are three MakeUseOf articles that might help:- How to Recover Data from a Corrupt Memory Card or USB Drive- How to Recover Deleted Pictures from a Digicam Memory Card
- 3 Remarkable File Recovery Tools
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/author/jessicacw/ Jessica Cam W.

Recuva is also really powerful for this task.
Richard Carpenter

http://www.pandorarecovery.com/download/

Pandora is a really good tool, it is what I use.
http://www.makeuseof.com/answers Tina

Miller,

were you able to restore the data from your SD card? Which tool(s) did you use?
Scott

Use Kernel’s Memory Card Recovery Software, demo version is free to download from

http://www.memorycardrecovery.org/