How to Recover Data from Encrypted SD Card?

“I had encrypted files on my SD card to keep them safe; as I do not want anyone to mess up with my data. But, yesterday when I tried to access the SD card on my PC, it showed an error message that states “SD memory card needs to be formatted”. I don’t want to format the SD card since those files are very important for me. But, I am not able to access encrypted files on the card. I am worried since I do not even have a backup of files saved on my SD card. Kindly help me with your precious suggestions to get encrypted files from the SD card”

Can I Recover Deleted Files From Encrypted SD Card?

In general, you would encrypt your SD cards to restrict unauthorized access to data by a third person. And, there are various applications available for you to encrypt your SD card with.

Incidents like the one mentioned above happen if your SD card is corrupted, and there is no problem with the encryption or decryption of the SD card, but it is with the file system of the SD card. Thus, your SD card won’t be accessible with or without a password on the computer.

So how did the file system of the SD card or memory card got corrupted. The File system on the SD card may get corrupted as a result of severe virus/malware/spyware infections. In order to reuse the SD cards to save new files, you need to format SD cards, which makes them accessible again but deletes all their encrypted files. Apart from SD card file system corruption; there can be many factors accountable for loss or deletion of encrypted files from SD card as given below:

How Did Files On My Encrypted SD Card Get Corrupted

Any of those above scenarios may result in you losing encrypted files from your SD card, now you find yourself wondering how do I recover encrypted files from SD cards. No worries; you can recover files on an SD card using a suitable tool, such as Yodot Picture Recovery in 3 simple steps.

Recover Encrypted Files from SD Card

Use Yodot Photo Recovery To Recover Data From Encryted SD Card

Yodot Photo Recovery software is the quickest and safest way to recover encrypted files and displaying a message to format it before usage from an sd card. This tool is capable of retrieving different types of photos, videos, audio and other encrypted files from SD memory cards on Windows OS. This tool also helps you to perform data recovery when the SD card is write protected, dead, un-mountable or inaccessible. Using Yodot Photo Recovery software, you can easily recover files that have been encrypted in just a few clicks and according to the below instructions.

Yodot Photo Recovery Steps to Recover Encrypted Data from SD Card

Step 1: Download and install Yodot Photo Recovery software.

Step 2: Connect the encrypted SD card to the computer and run the installed software.

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Step 3: Select Deleted Photo Recovery (to recover deleted files) or Lost File Recovery (to recover lost/inaccessible files).

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Step 4: Then select the SD card drive and click on Next.

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Step 5: Select file formats you want to restore (if you wish) else Skip this step to restore all encrypted files from the SD card.

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Step 6: After a quick scan, the software gives a list of recovered files in Data View and File Type View.

Step 7: Select your files and Preview them.

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Step 8: Select the Destination location and Save recovered files by clicking the Save option.

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Suggestions:

  • Keep backup of important files of your encrypted SD card on any other safe drive
  • Keep the SD card away from virus infection using an effective anti-virus software

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