How to Recover Lost Photos from Camera SD Card in Steps

Part 1: Types of Camera SD Cards

Part 2: File System of Camera SD Card

The file systems of camera SD cards differ from brands and models. Generally, FAT32 is the universal, compatible file system for the camera SD card. While in some new cameras, exFAT can also be used. You can check the product instruction to learn about which file system fits your camera.

Indeed, formatting camera SD card can be finished on the camera, not on the computer necessarily. Nowadays, according to the SD card type, the camera can automatically format the SD card to the suitable file system. Take the new Cannon camera as an example. It can format the SD/SDHC card to FAT32 and the SDXC to exFAT.

Part 3: Why Photos are Lost from Camera SD Card

Lifespan of flash memory chip

Compared with SSD, the SD card, one of the storage media, gets broken easier. First, the write cycles of the SD card flash memory limit to a certain amount. If the storage block is written and erased frequently, the blocks will gradually slow down in reading the data, even become the bad block. Once the bad blocks are excessive, the SD card cannot be used any more. In addition, the cheap flash memory cells are placed in the low-end SD cards because of the cheap cost. Such low-end products cannot be used for a long time.

Use improperly

Improperly using the SD card can also lead the data loss. For example, the SD card is ejected when the camera is on. Besides, the data may be deleted or covered when you connect it to the computer and edit the photos.

Part 4: Recover Lost Photos from Camera SD Card with Renee Undeleter

Renee Undeleter is the professional software for data recovery. It upholds not only to recover various files but also to recover the formatted disks, especially the photos and videos lost from the SD card. The software is designed with three scan modes, fast partition scan, whole partition scan and whole disk scan, which surely fulfill users’ different scenarios.

Why Renee Undeleter can recover lost photos

In fact, JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG and the other picture types are designed with the fixed but not identical file headers regarded as “fingerprints”. When Renee Undeleter scans the SD card, it will scan these “fingerprints” and quickly find out the deleted, covered pictures. That is why it can recover photos from the camera SD card.

Avoid full storage use

According to the hardware features on data reading and writing, to extend the lifespan of the camera SD card, 10% of the storage space should be reserved. Otherwise, the flash memory blocks will be overloaded, subject to deterioration.