Canon Memory Card Format Recovery Freeware

Formatted memory card used on digital camera like Canon won't be your trouble. Memory card has format error like not formatted, or it has raw file system, you should try this freeware.

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iCare Data Recovery Free Edition – The Canon Photo Recovery Tool for PC

iCare Data Recovery Free Edition is a professional data recovery utility specially designed to recover photos. It works on the computer. You only need to connect your device to the computer to prepare for the recovery. It's ok to take out the SD card from Canon camera and connect it to the PC with a card reader. iCare Data Recovery Free Edition will scan your target storage for lost photos. You can preview them for free. As mentioned earlier, both general photos and raw photos (proprietary photos only supported by the camera manufacturer) are supported by the program.

The Steps in Using iCare Data Recovery Free Edition

*It's advisable to perform photo recovery as soon as possible after you discovered your loss. Don't take more photos with the camera, unless the photos taken are stored on SD card by default, and you changed its SD card.

Step 1. Connect the camera to computer with USB connection, but it's better to take out the SD card and use it with a card reader, if you have one. Download and install the freeware on your computer. Open the program.
Step 2. Select the drive that represents the Canon camera (or the SD card). Click "Next" and then choose the type of your target photos. If you have no idea of this, just choose all of them, by default. Go to Next and it will start scanning for lost photos of the specified type in the specified drive.
Step 3. After the scan (it may take a few minutes, depending on the storage capacity of the specified drive), you'll see a lot of lost photos found and listed for preview. Now you can confirm and recover them.

Why the files can be recovered?

I think this puzzles many people. How's it possible that they can be recovered? Well, the key point is the file system management architecture. Files are pointers to the actual data. When you remove a file, you only removed the pointers but the data remains intact. The space is marked as free so newly created files can occupty it and overwrite the data. As long as the data is not overwritten yet, you can recover the files with professional software.

Tutorial with Screenshots for you to follow

Step 1 - Select Format Recovery, if you want to recover files after format digital camera card

Step 2 - Select device

Setp 3 - Wait for scanning

Step 4 - Preview lost files/photos

Step 5 - Save files

How to avoid memory card data loss?

1. Think before you act. Don't carelessly format the card.
2. Protect the card nicely. Handle it with care and attention. Don't twist it. It's fragile.
3. Protect it from water damage.

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