Micro SD Card Recovery: How to Recover Deleted Files from Micro SD Card (Full Guide)

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Micro SD Card Recovery How to Recover Deleted
Files from Micro SD Card (Full Guide)

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In the modern world, everyone may face a huge
flow of information everyday and what they browse
in the browser or apps may be automatically
downloaded to the micro SD card of their digital
devices upon connection to the Wi-Fi network or
cellular data. So, when you delete those unwanted
data, you may accidentally delete some important
files in the micro SD card. If you are bothered
about micro SD card recovery after that, you can
refer to this article, which shows you proven
ways to recover files from micro SD card.
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Part 1. What You'd Better Know before Micro SD
Card Recovery
Before you know how to perform micro SD card
recovery, you'd better know something about micro
SD card. Micro SD card VS SD card What is a
micro SD card? Micro SD card, originally named as
TF, T-Flash or TransFlash card, is a type of
removable flash memory card for storing
information and is the smallest memory card in
size. Then, you may also hear of SD card and
often mix them up. Well, SD card, an abbreviation
of Secure Digital card, is a proprietary
non-volatile memory card format developed by the
SD Association (SDA) for use in portable devices.
The biggest difference between micro SD and SD
card lies in their sizes and appearances.
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The standard size of an SD card is 32mm 24mm
1.4mm, while that of a micro SD card is 15mm
11mm 1mm. Besides, the micro SD card is widely
used in different applications in various markets
due to its compact size and has pushed forward
the smartphone market by giving greater
flexibility and freedom to both manufacturers and
consumers. While SD card has limited itself in
devices that need a non-volatile memory card, for
example, the station presets in small radios.
Apart from that, they also differentiate each
other in capacity, names, compatibility, and
other aspects. Common reasons for data loss on
micro SD card Accidental deletion While you
delete some unwanted files from micro SD card,
you may select the important data and delete them
with those unwanted files. Micro SD card
formatting If your device has inadequate space
left or virus attack, you may format micro SD
card to resolve the problem. However, if you
forget to back up files before that, you may lose
important data after micro SD card formatting.

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Micro SD card corruption Abrupt removal of
micro SD card from cameras, smartphones or
computers and virus/malware attack may easily
corrupt micro SD card. Virus attack or bad
sectors The micro SD card may lose data when
malicious virus attacks it or when there is a bad
sector on micro SD card but you do not even
know. Using the same micro SD card on
multiple devices. Well, if you have lost data on
SD card, you had better not format the micro SD
card if you want to recover micro SD card. Then
you can check the following details before you
restore micro SD card files Does connecting
device work? Or is micro SD card write-protected?
And you can also take out the micro SD card from
the device and do not use it before you conduct
micro SD card file recovery. Or the new data
generated on it will overwrite the lost data
permanently. Next, you can use the micro SD card
data recovery software below to recover files
from micro SD card. Anyway, the best way to
avoid data loss on micro SD card is to back up SD
card data regularly. Well, let's see how to
recover data from a micro SD card.
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Part 2. Which Micro SD Card Recovery Software is
the Best?
You may hear of or see many micro SD data
recovery software. And there are so many micro SD
card recovery software in the market that you
cannot even figure out which one is the best.
Well, to make things easier, we compare top 4
micro SD card recovery apps in the market and you
can refer to the following details before
selection. Top 1. Coolmuster Lab.Fone for
Android (Recommended) Coolmuster Lab.Fone for
Android is the best micro SD card recovery app in
the market. With it, you can recover all files on
SD card of digital cameras, Android smartphones,
music players, radios, video recorders and any
other devices which can use micro SD card.
Actually, this app has two recovery modes. Under
SD Card Recovery mode, you can recover the
deleted photos, videos, music and documents
without rooting and back up the existing media
files from micro SD card to computer.
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And under Android Data Recovery mode, you can
recover the deleted messages, call logs,
contacts, videos, music, photos and documents
from Android internal memory, SD card (if any)
and SIM card to computer, and back up the
existing data from Android phone to computer.
Besides, under either mode, you can preview both
existing and deleted files before recovery or
back up and select the desired files you
need. In addition, you can recover or back up
any files from Android device or micro SD card to
computer in original format without data quality
loss. Well, such user-friendly Coolmuster
Lab.Fone for Android is widely compatible with
all Android devices running Android 4.0 and later
versions and most micro SD cards on the device,
such as Samsung, Sony, LG, Motorola, HTC, Huawei,
Xiaomi, Google, etc. and Galaxy S20/S20/S20
Ultra/Z Flip/Z Flip Thom Browne/S10/S10/S10e/S/S9
/S9/S8/S8, etc.
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How to recover deleted files from micro SD
card? 1. Install and launch Coolmuster Lab.Fone
for Android on your computer and enter in Android
Recovery module from the toolbox.
2. Choose SD Card Recovery mode on the top menu
and connect your micro SD card to computer via an
SD card reader. Then click Next on this program
and you will see all connected micro SD cards.
Tick the micro SD card you wish to scan and click
Next to start scanning.
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3. Once the scanning process is over, you will
see all recoverable file types on this program.
Select a file type from the left panel, preview
and check the files you want to restore from the
right panel and tap Recover at the bottom of this
program to recover files from micro SD card.
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Pros One-click operation and light in size.
Highly secure, fast and Wi-Fi/cellular data free
during transfer. No need to root before micro
SD card recovery. Distinguish files in
different colors The existing data in black and
the lost in red. Clear and brief interface.
7 24 hrs customer support. Cons Transfer
data does not require network connection but
downloading this micro SD recovery program needs
network connection.
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Top 2. Recuva Piriform Recova is a lightweight
app for micro SD recovery on Windows computer. It
can recover pictures, music, documents, emails
and other files from micro SD card. In addition,
it also supports to securely overwrite files if
you want to delete files permanently from your
micro SD card.
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Pros Simple interface. Work on FAT and NTFS
systems. Recover files from Windows computer,
recycle bin, digital camera SD card or MP3
player. Support email recovery from
Thunderbird, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and
Microsoft Outlook. Cons It does not support
to recover all file types. The interface is
boring and not attractive. The free version
does not include support. It has not been
updated since 2016. You can download Recuva from
here gtgt See also Recuva Software for Android
Overview Recuva Alternative for Android
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Top 3. EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard EaseUS Data
Recovery Wizard is another micro SD file recovery
app that can quickly recover videos, images,
documents, emails, audio and other files from
micro SD, miniSD, SanDisk, SD/CF card, hard
drives, flash drives, etc.
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Pros Easy to use. Support many file
systems, like FAT, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS, NTFS5,
ext2/3 and HFS. Repair corrupted JPEG/JPG
photos and damaged MP4/MOV camera
videos. Cons It will scan the whole disk even
if you want to scan the specific file
location. It only offers every user 2GB free
recovery files. Low recovery rate for video
files. Poor customer support. You can
download EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard from EaseUS
website.
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Top 4. Disk Drill SD Card Recovery Disk Drill is
a very useful micro SD card recovery software,
which can scan and recover data from any storage
devices, like Macintosh hard drives, micro SD
card, external hard drives, cameras, Android
devices, etc. And you can recover up to 500MB
lost data for free.
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Pros Support all file systems. Filter the
result by size and data. Easy to
use. Cons It is not a really freeware and
only offers 500MB free recovery files. The
scanning process may take longer time than other
micro SD card recovery apps. You can download
Disk Drill from here gtgt
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Part 3. How to Fix a Damaged/Corrupt Micro SD
Card without Losing Data
In addition to micro SD card recovery, guess you
may also want to rescue your micro SD card. Below
are some useful tips for you to fix your damaged
or corrupted micro SD card. Unhide hidden
files in corrupted micro SD card. Change a
card reader, adapter or a USB port. Use
Windows Repair Tool to fix corrupted micro SD
card. Change a drive letter if the micro SD
card is not detected by computer. Open the
command window and run chkdsk command to check
and repair SD card bad sectors. Reinstall the
micro SD card driver. Use the micro SD card
repair solution provided by manufacturer. Use
the Error Checking feature of SD card drive.
Use the Diskpart in CMD command. Format a RAW
SD card or half-capacity SD card. (Remember to
back up SD card data before formatting.)
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Words in the End If you have lost or accidentally
deleted pretty important data from micro SD card
on Android smartphone and tablet, digital camera,
music player, video, recorder, GPS device, etc,
do not panic! You can recover files from micro SD
card using the micro SD card recovery software
introduced in this article. And I highly
recommend you to try Coolmuster Lab.Fone for
Android, which is easy to use, fast to scan and
recover and highly secure. It is indeed an ideal
micro SD card recovery app for all kinds of micro
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