Summary: If you have deleted photos from SD card of your mobile phone or camera, remember that they are not lost permanently. This post shares how you can recover deleted photos from SD card in a few simple steps by using an effective Stellar Photo Recovery Software.
SD cards are commonly used in Android phones, DSLRs, digital cameras and other devices to save photos. But often you tend to delete the SD card photos in haste, realising the blunder later. Sometimes, the photos get deleted due to formatting or virus attack when you connect it to an infected system. Whatsoever the reason, losing your precious photos due to deletion can be quite frustrating.
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Yes. The good part is, SD card photos are not lost permanently after deletion. You can still restore them with the help of an efficient SD Card recovery software to recover deleted photos from SD card.
Photos deleted from SD cards, SDXC, SDHC, memory stick, and other media continue to exist as long as there are no read/write actions performed.
Overwriting of SD card or memory card permanently wipes off the deleted photos and makes them non-recoverable even by the best of photo recovery technique. Thus, it is advisable to stop using SD card immediately once you realize that you have lost data on the SD card.
Backup comes as rescue when you want to recover deleted photos from SD card. If you don’t have one, use SD card recovery software. A professional SD card photo recovery tool comes with powerful capabilities and algorithm to trace deleted or missing photos from SD cards. Such tools can also detect failures or dying SD cards that are no longer visible under ‘My Computer’ or appearing as a RAW drive under ‘Disk Management’.
Stellar Photo Recovery is a great tool that effectively scans the SD card of any capacity and recover deleted photo files with their actual names and date timestamp. It recovers photos from memory cards of DSLRs, camcorders, Android phones, iPhones, action cameras, and drones, etc.
You can restore photos of virtually any format with 3 simple steps — ‘Select’, ‘Scan’, and ‘Recover’. If your deleted image file type is not in the supported formats list, the software has provision to add it by using the Add Header feature. You can recover widely used JPEG as well as uncompressed RAW files from Sony, Canon, Nikon, or Fuji, etc.
Currently, the software supports up to 5TB of devices. As your SD card is of relatively smaller size, it’ll take minimum turnaround time to scan and restore photos.
In case you have a backup on Cloud or hard drive, it is much easier to recover from there. An SD card is used for storing your digital photos. However, whenever you take new photos, it is always advisable to create a backup.
You can use Google Drive, iTunes, iCloud, external/ internal hard drive or any other suitable backup option for your SD card.
Whatever way you choose to use, keeping backups is essential to secure your data in Android devices, desktop, laptop, other digital cameras, and mobile devices.
Deletion is the most common reason for the loss of photos from storage media including SD card. But with professional photo recovery software — Stellar Photo Recovery, you can recover pictures from any type of SD card, whether they were lost due to accidental deletion, formatting, or corruption.
Oliver Powell is a Data Recovery Expert at Stellar®. He is a passionate technology blogger & content creator, He explores new applications and has deep understanding of data recovery. He has experience in Windows & Mac data recovery domain.
Hi Simona while trying to delete some photos from redminotephone gallery I deleted all photos accidently.please help me in recovering all photos again in my gallery
Hi Pallavi, I would suggest, you can try our free software such as Stellar Data Recovery for Android which easily recover deleted photos from your Android phone internal storage. Thanks!
Hi, can i able to recover the previously deleted photos from my sd card, where I’ve saved some new data using this software?
Hi,
You cannot recover 100% deleted files from an overwritten SD card by using any software.
Thanks for the information I tried stellar photo recovery and it recovers my deleted files. It only takes a few minutes to back up my entire HD, and it doesn’t need to run in the background.
Hi Raghuram, Thanks for using our software and share your valuable feedback with us!
“Very useful post. cheers. There are some manual restore options in the operating systems by which you can recover your lost photos from hard disk, internal memory or flash memory, etc. but these methods are not 100% useful every time. For any type of photo loss recovery from flash storage media or internal storage, professional photo recovery tools are the best way.
Hi Rick, Thanks for reading our blog and sharing your valuable feedback with us!
hello sumona. hope u r in finest of health. can u guide that how far back in time can stellar premium recover the data? as i have a memory card in my dslr and pics taken 1.5 year back. can i recover the data from it? as i deleted the photos and took new ones but can i recover the old ones after an year or two?
Hi Ali, Thanks for asking, It depends on the size of the files. If the data should not overwrite our software able to recover your files from a camera memory card. I would like to suggest you can try our software demo version and see the preview of recovered files. Thanks!