I formatted the SD card of my Sony DSC RX10 camera, thinking that I had copied all my photos. Now I have lost a Data Recovery bunch of precious photos. Can I recover photos from formatted SD card?
Once an SD card is formatted, all its Data Recovery including photos are erased. Often by accident, and sometimes when you have no choice but to format the SD card for reuse. Losing valuable photos due to formatting can cause significant emotional stress. But can you recover photos from a formatted SD card?
Formatting deletes the file system address table, i.e. information about the location of Data Recovery (photos) on the SD card. This means that your SD card can no longer locate the image files and folders on it. The stored photos are therefore invisible and the SD card appears as empty.
However, from a technical point of view, your image files are still present on the storage medium and only disappear when you overwrite them with new stuff. That said, it is important to know that there are two types of Twitter formatting process in Windows: quick format and full format.
Full formatting erases the SD card from scratch, i.e. it deletes photos that cannot be recovered. Quick formatting replaces the file system or index with a new one. The memory card space is marked as free and unused without actually deleting the data. Thus, photos after quick format can be recovered.