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How to Recover Pictures and Videos from SDHC Card?

Aug. 16, 2013 2:32 pm / Updated by Bobby Hills to Card Tips
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What's SDHC card?

SDHC (Secure Digital High Capacity) is an extension of the SD standard which increases card's storage capacity up to 32 GB. Its family includes SDHC, miniSDHC and microSDHC, and they have a capacity of 4GB to 32GB. It is FAT32 file system. SDHC cards share the same physical and electrical form factor as older cards, allowing SDHC devices to support both newer SDHC cards and older SD cards. For its huge storage ability, SDHC card was widely used to store music, video, photos as well as documents for all kinds of devices, such as digital cameras, camcorders, mobile phones, and portable computers. Famous SDHC card brands including SanDisk, Kingston, A-Data, Transcend, etc.

Although it offers convenience for us, there are lees to every wine. Sometimes, we lost data due to bad luck. If that happens, we need to recover SDHC card. Before recovering SDHC, let's first analyze why we lost data in SDHC card.

Causes Lead to Pictures and Video Loss in SDHC Card

Pictures and video loss can be caused by various reason, the following are some typical ones:

1. Accidental deleting: Delete files by right-clicking menu or just press “Delete” button in your digital camera.
2. Format SDHC card: Come across message reads “Media is not formatted, would you like to format now?” and press “format” or disk initialization when digital camera SDHC card is just connected.
3. Improper operation of Cameras or camcorders: you may forget to backup then factory set of device or turn off the storage media during the writing process. Using SDHC card between different cameras and pull out SDHC card while the camera is on will also lead to loss images and video.
4. Other reasons like unexpected devices power off or SDHC was attacked by virus when connected to PC will also loss data in it.

How to recover SDHC Card Data?

Every SDHC card contains a memory chip within the card. If the chip was intact, you are lucky, the data in your SDHC card should be still there and you can recover SDHC. If not, there is no way to rescue. You can send the card to a reputable expert to help you get back pictures and video from SDHC card or just purchase SDHC card recovery software like Card Data Recovery to retrieve data by yourself. Here are steps about how to use SDHC card data recovery to help you recover pictures and video.

Step1: Insert Kingston SDHC card into a multi card reader if your PC does not support SDHC card in the SD card slot. Connect the card reader to your PC.
Step2: Download Card Data Recovery and install it in your PC, in “Disk Management”, find SDHC card from the drive selection menu.
Step3: In the interface of Card Data Recovery, hit "Start". And then select “SDHC card” on the partiton list. Select one recovery mode and select file types (as well as file formats). Then click “Scan” to begin scanning.
Step4: In the task list, check photos and videos, and click “Recover” to start recovery. Card Data Recovery allows you to preview photos and audios before recovery.

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