SD cards are extremely convenient media to store your photos as you may directly insert them into cameras or mobile phones.
However, if you handle the cards poorly or the card is very old, it can get corrupt, which prevents you from accessing the pictures. This issue can also occur if you accidentally deleted the images or formatted your SD card.
Fortunately, it is possible to recover the deleted photos. In this guide, we explain all the methods you may use to retrieve such files.
How to Recover Deleted Photos from SD Card
There are no built-in options to recover data from SD cards in any systems or devices. So you have to use third-party recovery tools. But before doing so, there are a few other things you may do.
As soon as you realize that you have deleted some photos from your SD card, stop using this storage media altogether.
Deleting some files from the card doesn’t actually remove the files but marks their location as free. Any new files can use those locations for their storage.
So if you haven’t created or transferred new files on the card, you may still recover the old contents. However, writing new information makes this process much more difficult.
Recover From Device or Backup
Before installing recovery software on your computer, you should try looking for the photos in other locations.
If you may’t find the photos elsewhere, you need to use recovery software.
Recover Using a Recovery Software
Many SD card recovery software, including both free and paid apps, are available on the internet. you may check their reviews and tutorials and use one according to your preference.
Regardless, in this guide, we use PhotoRec recovery software as an example. It is a completely open-source that you may use to efficiently recover data from any media on Windows, Linux, or Mac.
It uses a command line interface that may be slightly difficult for most people to follow. So, we have simplified the process in the steps below:
