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SD card recovery software for Windows

It is not fun to lose all your vacation photos or family pictures at once. Disk Drill makes the situation manageable and can help anyone with memory card recovery. Additionally to being able to recover deleted files from SD card, Disk Drill can restore deleted files on virtually any device one can connect to a Windows computer, be it Windows 7, Windows 10 or other.
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Disk Drill works with any type of file system you have – NTFS, FAT32, EXT, ExFAT, HFS+, etc. Recovering lost files has never been so versatile. SD card data recovery and CF card recovery is not all Disk Drill can do. You can restore erased files on system disks, external devices, USB drives, other computers, etc. Free Disk Drill is smart. It will scan your system and let you know what it can recover. Recover 500 MB of data for free.

#1 Memory Card Recovery Algorithms

Disk Drill for Windows has the best options for any lost data situation: Undelete Protected Data, Quick Scan and Deep Scan. Even if you lost the whole partition Disk Drill knows how to restore your erased files. If you don't want to think how to recover deleted pictures from SD card you better protect the files now. The best thing – data protection is completely free!
  • 1Download Disk Drill
  • 2Install it
  • 3Launch Disk Drill for Windows

#2 Recover Deleted Files From SD Card

If your memory card went blank all of a sudden or due to an accident, Disk Drill can scan it for free so that you know whether you can recover the files that were lost. SD card recovery
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This recovery tool has an impressive ability of putting files back together.
Sometime a scanning process takes time. You can always pause it and resume whenever you need to.

#3 Backup to ISO/DMG

Backing up data is a good habit to develop. Backup a volume and restore it easily with free Disk Drill for Windows. SD card recovery

#4 The Best Data Recovery For Everyone

In a digital world we rely on a digital data a lot, and sometimes it happens - it gets lost for various reasons. Anytime you emptied Recycle Bin and then suddenly realized you didn't mean to delete that exact file, or there was a power failure or a volume damage, and so on, Disk Drill comes in handy. SD card recovery
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Say hi to the top recovery app that is super friendly and reliable – Disk Drill. It offers detection of bad sectors on a drive and gives you the best chances of recovery.

#5 Quick Scan & Deep Scan

If you just lost your data and downloaded Disk Drill right away there is still a chance Quick Scan can help you get your files back. Usually when the file was just removed, it is in fact just the name that has been deleted or altered by the system, everything else is still there, just not visible. Get it back with Quick Scan asap!
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But in case you didn't make it on time Deep Scan is the way to go. Working with file signatures Disk Drill will apply all of its knowledge to put the remaining pieces together into a recognizable structure and then based on found signatures it will undelete files even faster. SD card recovery

Undelete Protected Data

And what's the better way to recover deleted files from SD card or a hard drive or from any other device than protecting your data? Activate Recovery Vault in Disk Drill to backup deleted files meta-data invisibly. When enabled, Recovery Vault makes sure that none of the deleted files is lost for good and is restored in a matter of seconds with the original properties.

#6 Top Data Recovery Results

Disk Drill can recover deleted data from pretty much anything including laptops, desktops, USB drives, workstations, internal and external hard drives, memory cards, and more. Disk Drill will perform a free scan and choose the appropriate recovery method automatically. It recovers data from:
Recovering deleted files from HFS
  • Laptops and desktop computers
  • USB flash drives
  • Digital cameras
  • All memory cards
  • All hard drives
  • Devices in mass storage mode

Frequently Asked Questions

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To recover deleted files from an SD card:

  1. Download and install Disk Drill.
  2. Connect the SD card to your computer.
  3. Launch the application and choose the SD card from the list of disks.
  4. Click Search for lost data to scan for lost files.
  5. Preview and choose the files for recovery.
  6. Click the Recover all button to restore your selected files.
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To recover deleted files from an SD card for free follow these steps:

  1. Download and install Disk Drill SD Card recovery software for Windows.
  2. Connect the SD card to your computer and start the app.
  3. Click Search for lost data to find your SD card files.
  4. Preview and select the files to be recovered from SD card.
  5. Click Recover and restore up to 500 MB of SD card data for free.

Yes, it is. If you can get your computer to recognize the SD card, data recovery software can be used to rescue lost files. You may have simply lost access to them though they are still present on the card. Stop using the card as soon as you realize there are dented files for the best chance of recovering them.

To recover deleted photos from an SD card follow these steps:

  1. Download and install Disk Drill.
  2. Attach the SD card to your computer.
  3. Start the app and choose the SD card from the disk list.
  4. Click Search for lost data to identify deleted photos.
  5. Preview the list of recoverable photos.
  6. Select the photos to be restore and click Recover all.

To recover deleted photos from an SD card without software you can:

  1. Check the Recently Deleted folder on the device which contains the memory card.
  2. Try the card in a different device or card reader that may allow access to lost data.
  3. Connect the device to a different USB port.
  4. Restore files from a previously made backup of the data.

To recover photos from a formatted SD card use this procedure:

  1. Attach the SD card to your computer.
  2. Start Disk Drill and select the SD card from the disk list.
  3. Click Search for lost data to scan the card for deleted photos.
  4. Preview the found images and choose the ones you want to retrieve.
  5. Click Recover to restore the pictures.

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