How to Recover Data after Windows Clean Install Erases SD Card?

“Hi, I was trying to do Windows clean install on my Lenovo laptop. Before I get into the process, I copied entire data from laptop to my external hard drive. Everything went well. But later I realized I had left my 32GB SD card in USB port of laptop. Now card is wiped-out and I lost all files present on it. I had saved many vital files and documents on that card; I don’t have any replicas of them (since those files are damn crucial, I kept that card to save only such files). Really I am at loss. Is it possible to get back my data? Please help me.”

Sometimes, mistakes happen without our knowledge; few may create problems which are very hard to solve, whereas many of them has certain ways to fix. Likewise, this situation can also be resolved easily and your entire data can be recovered, only if you haven’t used your Secure Digital memory card to save or access any data since from the time file loss occurred. Just try this step by step guideline and easily retrieve lost photos from SD card after Windows clean install.

  • Externally connect your SD card to Windows system
  • Run Yodot Photo Recovery tool after clicking on Download Now link
  • Click Lost File Recovery in first screen
  • Click on attached SD card in shown list of storage device and hit Next tab
  • Here, you can specify particular files to restore or hop this option to restore entire files present on SD card by clicking on Skip button
  • Mark files which you need to retrieve from SD, either in File Type View or Data View
  • Finally, Preview recovered files and provide location to save them

Decisive process to retrieve files from SD memory card:

Yodot Photo Recovery is a robust and intelligence way to retrieve photos from SD memory card when card is completely wiped in any situation. It can easily recover images of all formats including RAW. This efficient recovery tool is not only meant for restoration of lost and deleted photos, but it can also simultaneously retrieve various files like audio, video, Documents, Excel, Spreadsheets, Presentations and so on upto 300 formats. Along with Secure Digital card, it is supportive to retrieve data from internal drives and other external media like memory stick, pen drive, Usb drive, SDHC, mini and micro SD etc. You can make use of the application on all Windows computers regardless of its OS, as it is compatible with all Windows OS versions. Along with smart and obliging GUI to make recovery process easier, the software provides excellent technical assistance to help you in retrieving data. To ensure recovering capability of program, you can preview restored images prior to saving them.

Note:

It is recommended to safeguard your data as well as SD card, when you carry out any major changes to your hard drive or operating system, like Windows clean install, OS reinstall, OS or hard drive upgrade, partition resizing, etc.

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