How to Recover SD Card Data

Envorinment
  • Microsoft Windows XP
  • TestDisk 6.10
Introduction
User suddenly cannot read the SD card to get images. Windows just asks about format the SD card

Solutions
Get a GPL Data Recovery application - TestDisk. Unzip it, and then run "TestDisk\win\ photorec_win.exe"

It will ask to select which media to proceed

Select which type of the partition

Select which partition

Select which type of the filesystem

Select to analysis where

Select where to save the recovered file. Click "Enter", and then "Y". Recovering will be running

Reference
  • TestDisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk