Recover deleted files sd card How to restore SD card to full capacity?

Sometimes, when you connect your SD card with computer, you may found that the free space is far less than it should have. For example, there should have 8 GB left, but it only shows 1 GB free space. The SD card has not shown its full capacity. Then what happened on the SD card and how to solve this problem?

This problem is not uncommon for SD card users. According to the data recovery experts, there are mainly several possible causes for the SD card show wrong capacity.

1. The SD card has a virus infection

If your SD card is attacked by virus, some or all your files will be deleted, or the virus may spread and hide in your SD card to take up your SD card storage space.

2. SD card is corrupted

If the SD card has been corrupted, usually it will show 0 bytes, both the used space and free space shows 0 bytes. That is for the file system is damaged.

3. The invalid space of SD card

If you buy a not copyrighted SD card, the actual useful storage space may far less than the advertised space. Such as a SD card has a 1 GB actual space, but it shows 4 GB, but you can only store data size up to 1 GB. Therefore, it’s necessary to by a branded and copyrighted SD card.

How to restore the SD card to full capacity?

1. Format the SD card

Formatting will help you to solve many SD card problems. After formatting, the SD card will back to its original full space. However, you should have backed up your files before you perform formatting as it will delete all the files on the SD card.

2. Use a third-party tool to format the SD card.

By using a third-party formatting tool, you can easily format the SD card.

Recover files after formatting the SD card

At any time before you format the SD card, you should back up all the files on the SD card. If you forgot to back up the files before you format the SD card, you have to use the data recovery software. Hdata recovery software is able to recover lost files from formatted SD card. If you lost data due to formatting, you should not reformat it, or you will lost your data forever. When the SD card is formatted, all files on the SD card will be deleted from here, the SD card go back to its original storage space. But the files deleted have not been erased if you have not write new data to this SD card or you reformat it. So the data recovery software can scan the content of files and then recover them.

Video tutorials about how to recover lost files after formatting the SD card