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How to recover images from a formatted Nikon camera card?

by Jan 13, 2014 1:46PM PST

Hello, I have a question about recovering lost pictures back from a camera memory card. I hope you can give some useful suggestions.
I have a Micro SD card that is used on my Nikon camera and holds many images. However, recently, as showing them all to my families, my little sister accidentally formatted this card by pressing a wrongly button and all these images were lost. It was really an accident! So, I post my question here and hope I can find a way to restore them all back successfully. Any idea/suggestion will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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I would not do that.
by Forum moderator Jan 13, 2014 1:52PM PST

I would try to copy them out from the card with Recuva or other apps. Writing to the card is not a good idea. Do you understand the difference?
Bob

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Do not write anything new on this camera card!
by Jan 14, 2014 10:59AM PST

1). Do not write anything new on this Micro SD card. In this case, anything new can be a great threat to your lost images.

2). Connect this camera to your computer.

3). Rescue all your lost images with a card data recovery tool. Many data recovery freeware can help restore lost images back from a memory card online like 4Card Recovery, Recuva, iCare Data Recovery Free and more.

4). Save all restored images on another card or drive in case of data recovery failure.

Note: Never format a memory card or hard drive without a data backup in the future.

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Thank you for your nice help.
by Bingnny35949 Jan 21, 2014 10:17AM PST

Thank you for your nice help.
I have restored all my wanted data back by following your steps. All the mentioned data recovery freeware also work very well on my card.
Thank you very much!!!!!

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