A memory card is a small, portable data storage device. This is used in mobile phones, digital cameras, laptops, MP3 players to store data. The data stored in memory card retains even after loss of power, because the flash memory technology is used in memory card. There are different types of memory cards are available such as SD (Secure Digital) card, CF (Compact Flash) card, Memory Stick, Smart media etc. Nowadays memory cards are coming with different sizes and the data storage capacity is up to 128 GB and much more in the market. Thus you can store huge amount of data in your memory card. The price of memory card is depends on its data storage capacity. Like hard drive the memory card also has a file system to store data in a systematic manner. The memory card is formatted while using first time to create file system. Even though memory card has all these features, sometimes you will lose the data from your memory card. The data loss from your memory card may be due to accidental formatting, virus attack, power surge, improper ejection of memory card, unexpected shutdown of your system, file system corruption, memory card corruption etc. You can use third party utility software to recover data from formatted memory card.
Some of the important reasons in which data loss occurs from your memory cards are discussed here. The data from memory card may be lost due to accidental formatting. Sometimes you will get error in your digital camera like “your memory card is not formatted, do you want to format it now”, then you may be select format option. Then you will lose all data from your memory card. The data from memory card is also lost due to virus attack. Virus can partly corrupt the data or sometimes delete the whole data. The main cause for the virus is through browsing the third party website and downloading the contents from them. The downloaded content from unauthorized website will also open ports for viruses. The low battery condition on your digital camera also leads to data loss. If you try to capture photos when your digital camera showing low battery condition, then your memory card may get corrupt. The data from corrupted memory card becomes inaccessible. The improper shutdown of your system also results in data loss. If your system turned off while transferring data from memory card to your system, then you will lose whole data due to memory card corruption.
In all these above situations, you can recover lost data from your memory card by using third party utility software such as Remo Recover (Windows) – Media Edition software. This software uses advanced in built algorithm to recover data from formatted memory card. This software supports recovery of files from FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS, NTFS 5 and ExtFAT partitions. You can also use this software to recover files from different types of hard drives such as SATA, SCSI, IDE etc. The demo version of this software is available and you can download this demo version to evaluate chances of data recovery.