Regain Data from Formatted SxS Card

“I am working in an advertisement company and my job is to backup SxS card data. Unfortunately, one cameraman formatted a card before I backed up the files from it. Good thing is he has not recorded anything new; however, my job potential depends on it. How can I get back data from that formatted SxS card? Any help would be appreciated!!!”

Few common data loss problems associated with Lexar Professional SD card:

SxS (S-by-S) is a flash memory standard developed by Sony and SanDisk. SxS card can be used on Windows and Mac as well by directly connecting it into an ExpressCard slot. The card supports 800 Mbit/s transfer rate and upto 2.5 Gbit/s burst transfer rate. Sony uses these cards as storage medium for their XDCAM EX line of professional video cameras. The only universal connectivity for SxS card is Sony SBAC-US10 external USB adapter, which makes the card visible to any system as an external USB hard drive. However, user may lose their valuable data from SxS flash memory card when it becomes corrupted or damaged and requires to be formatted.

Possible situations that require formatting of SxS card are:

• Downloading severely virus infected files to card or connecting SxS card to infected computer will result in complete corruption
• Frequently using SxS card on multiple operating systems can sometimes damage the card making all its data inaccessible
• Using SxS card on devices that are running out of battery may corrupt its file system causing card not formatted error, which can be resolved only by formatting card
• Accidentally formatting / reformatting SxS card without keeping proper backup of data can lead to huge file loss

In these aove situations, SxS card has to be formatted in order to resolve its corruption or damage issue. But, formatting leads to complete deletion of files saved in the card. However, if no new files are added to such formatted SxS memory card, erased data can be restored back without any difficulty by using proficient memory card recovery tool.

Software to regain data from formatted SxS card:

Yodot Photo Recovery software effectively recovers lost data from formatted SxS card on Windows system. It can bring back media files, Office files, compressed files and all other documents from SXS memory card that is corrupt, inaccessible or unreadable. Addition to SxS card, it has capability to restore files from secure digital card, XD, CF, MMC, XQD, SDXC, SDHC, micro SD, memory stick and many other flash memory cards. Apart from various memory cards, one can regain files even from pen drive, external hard drive, FireWire drives and SSD drives storage devices. It can recover data from formatted SxS card on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 operating systems. More to this, Mac users can employ Yodot Mac Photo Recovery tool to accomplish the same on Mac machine working with Leopard, Lion, Snow Leopard, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite operating systems. It can tackle almost all reason of data loss and help you in recovering huge amount of data from SxS card.

Procedure to retrieve formatted SxS card data:

• Connect your formatted SxS memory card to Windows computer through Sony external USB adapter
• Download Yodot Photo Recovery tool on and install it on your desktop
• Upon installation, launch the program to start recovery process
• You will get two options on main screen namely 'Deleted Photo Recovery' and 'Lost Photo Recovery'
• After selecting suitable option, proceed next and view all drives present in your system
• Now select the drive representing formatted SxS card and click 'Next' to continue
• Choose the file types that are to be recovered from SxS memory card or simply click on ‘Mark All’ button
• As scanning completes, on next screen you can see all files present on your SxS card
• Make use of ‘Data View’ and ‘File Type View’ to have detailed look at rescued files
• Now preview files to confirm that you have chosen right file for restoration
• At last save these restored files using 'Save' option on desired destination location, except on same SxS card

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