
These accidents happen frequently, even to advanced digital camera users. Furthermore, memory cards can become corrupted if they are ejected improperly, rendering them unreadable.

when loading them into another device) or individual photos may be inadvertently deleted by the camera or a computer. Memory cards are often accidentally formatted (e.g. Most consumer and professional digital photo cameras store images on a memory card, such as a Secure Digital (SD) flash card or a CompactFlash card.

However, when I put my SD card into my laptop via an adapter, it says I need to format the disks in drive D: and E: before I can use it (and continues to say all the data will be deleted if I do that).You may read about how to recover files on other cases: So, what do you have to do to get deleted files back? HD Video Recovery from SD cards Recovery from an External Device with a Damaged File System R-Undelete: File recovery from a non-functional computer In a few articles and youtube videos I watched, they said you could put your SD card into your laptop and use an external application ("recoverit") to get back data lost from formatting. I don't remember seeing that screen but I must've missed it and formatted it anyway.

When I looked it up, I saw that the screen I saw is followed by a screen saying once you format your card, it'll delete everything on it. After a loading screen, all the data I had on my SD card (photos, audio files, etc.) were gone. I didn't really understand what that meant (the tech guys said nothing should change about my SD card), so I picked internal storage. When I went to get my sim card changed and my SD card was taken out of and put back into my phone, I got a screen asking if I wanted to format my SD card as internal storage or for file transfer.
