Top 6 Card Data Recovery Software

Top 6 Card Data Recovery Software

Sept. 5, 2013 9:40 am / Posted by Bobby Hills to Card Tips
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It's not an uncommon situation where one needs to recover photos, videos or files from memory card, USB drive or hard drive. What to do if it really happens to you? You will need a card data recovery program. And indeed there are many data recovery programs could help with that, but do you really want to risk the full recovery of all your data to some allegedly workable programs? This article lists best 6 data software for memory card that could make your data recovery a piece of cake. Read on to find out.

First of all, the files you thought were "permanently" deleted were still on your card, USB drive or hard drive, except for the fact that they just can't be seen. Before you went on and try these data recovery programs, the most important thing to do is stop using the card or drive you have lost files from. That is the only way to increase the chance of all your data's full recovery. Minimize the use of your card or drive as soon as you found that you have lost data, bear that in mind.

Top 6 Memory Card Data Recovery & Undelete Software

1. Totally Free SD Card Recovery Program- PhotoRec

PhotoRec is indeed a great data recovery program that could recover data from almost any device on multiple platforms: whether it is memory card, USB drive or hard drive you lost data from, or you run the software on Windows or Mac, PhotoRec might be a good choice for you.

Cons: Though a powerful tool it is, there are a few things that cannot be looked over. First of all, the biggest problem with the software is its command-line interface, all black and white, which could be very intimidating if you do not have much experience with command prompt. And the second lies in its relatively more complicated recovery process. It takes more steps than other software to recover the data you wanted, also, the significant options aren't that obvious among all the lines.

So why not give Card Data Recovery a shot? It is better, faster, and has no cons as PhotoRec did.

2. Card Data Recovery - Recuva

It is a free data recovery program, which is simple and easy to use, yet powerful. Recuva can recover files from memory card, all kinds of drives (USB drive, hard drive) and such. What's even better, it can also recover files from your iPod!

Cons: Recuva is better than PhotoRec, interface-wise. But Recuva does not provide Mac version. And, when installed, the software is installed in your system drive by default, which is disturbing. Then, when you need to change a drive to scan and recover files, you have to close the program and restart it, and that is very inconvenient.

3. Recover Data from Card – Undelete 360

Undelete 360 is fine tool, to be honest. It has the interface resembling Office 2007, and strong ability in recovering the recently deleted files. The scan result will be shown in a list, filtered by types and properties. Also, it shows how "healthy" the files are, which means whether they are overwritten or not.

Cons: Undeleted 360 has weaker ability to scan and recover files. There are some files that can be scanned and recovered by other programs that are invisible to Undelete 360. Plus, when it comes to quick formatted card, the software is just useless.

4. Easy Card Data Recovery – Puran File Recovery

It is one of the better free file recovery programs, very easy to use, will scan any drive that Windows sees, and offers many advanced options if needed. Unlike other software mentioned, it can filter the result by category like pictures, music and such.

Cons: I have to say the biggest con is there is no pause during the scanning process, and the scanning result won't show up until all is done. If you have a drive with large capacity, like external hard drive, it could take you some time to wait and see if the file you want was in the found files.

5. Recover Files from SD Card - Pandora Recovery

Pandora Recovery is a great free file recovery tool that can recover the lost photos, videos and files from your card quickly and easily. And the wizard that comes with it is just amazing, very informative and helpful. In addition to the wizard, the Surface Scan is another worth-mentioning feature of Pandora Recovery, just try it and you won't regret.

Cons: The scan really takes too much time, which is a little low efficient. Plus, the software must be installed on computer, with no portable version available. That means, if you only have one partition in your system and you just lost files from it, using Pandora would be a little risky.

6. Best Professional Data Recovery Software for Card– Card Data Recovery

Now we have the ultimate data recovery software for your memory card, USB drive and hard drive – Card Data Recovery. Card Data Recovery is a very easy to use, user-friendly and super powerful data recovery tool. The cons of the software that I mentioned above could never be found in Card Data Recovery.

Card Data Recovery is available in both Windows and Mac version. And using it is very simple, as follows:

Free Download Card Data Recovery:

• 1. Connect your card or drive to your PC with and run Card Data Recovery.
• 2. Click "start" and choose your card on the left as the target device. Then choose a recovery mode (the Advanced Mode is for those who know exactly what type of file they lost), and click "Scan".

  

• 3. When the scanning is done, select the files your wish to recover and click "Recover". Then choose the path where you want to save the files, remember not to save them directly on your card or drive to avoid overwriting.
• 4. Then click "OK" to finish. Then all your pictures, videos, documents and such will be fully recovered.

Hope you will find the right card data recovery tool to help you with your data loss.

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