[4 Easy Steps] How to Recover Formatted SD Card on Mac – SD Card Recovery
Last Updated on December 8, 2020 by Ian McEwan
Sometimes, you may accidentally format SD card rather than just wanting to delete some duplicate files.
Or, you want to import your photos/ videos from GoPro to Mac. But after inserting the SD card to Mac with an SD card adapter, it couldn’t mount. You have no idea what happened, so you try to connect it with your Mac again. But the Mac still can’t mount and pop up that you need to format your SD card for further use. In fact, that SD card may be formatted/damaged/corrupted, and SD card data is gone.
If Mac users like you have ever faced a problem like that, which is very annoying, then you have to take some measures and learn how to recover formatted SD card on Mac ASAP. Especially when you haven’t backed up those data and you need some file in it immediately.
Once you find out your SD card was formatted, the data is actually still there and becomes invisible/inaccessible to you. All you need to do is stop using that formatted card to maximize the chance to get the data back. And the one and the only way to recover data from formatted SD card Mac is to ask an SD Card Recovery Tool for help.
There are many SD Card Recovery software in the marketplace, and Aiseesoft Mac Data Recovery is one of the best.
Recovering Formatted SD Card on Mac With Aiseesoft SD Card Recovery
Here, this Aiseesoft Mac Data Recovery would be a reliable helper to unformat your SD card. Let’s take a brief look at some features of this SD Card Recovery tool:
- Support many types of SD card like Full SD card, Mini SD card or Micro SD card (including the brand of SanDisk, PNY, Samsung, Kingston, Transcend, etc.), and the file systems(HFS X, HFS+, FAT 16/FAT 32, exFAT, NTFS, etc.).
- Get your precious data back, such as your family videos, favorite pictures, secret documents, almost all file types can be restored.
- Unformat your SD card data on Mac due to Mistaken deletion, Formatting, Corruption and more damages like operating system crashed, bootable problems with high success rates.
- Support Mac 10.7 and above (Mac OS Mojave)
- 100% safe and reliable.
Since we have found a good helper, we can start our work of recovering as the following.
Step 1: Launch this SD Card Data Recovery on Mac.
Download it on your Mac, and run it to start after its installation.
Step 2: Connect the formatted SD card to your Mac.
Select your formatted SD card device, and connect it to your Mac with a card reader for the next work. Here is the interface the Mac will present:
You may click the “start” in the “Mac Data Recovery”, then going to Step 3.
For Mac OS X EI Capitan or later, you need to disable System Integrity Protection firstly in order to further restore your data from your formatted SD card on your Mac. Then, you can normally use this Mac Data Recovery for recovering.
Step 3: Scan files on Mac.
In your Mac interface, there will be some data types for you to choose. After you check the SD card name under “Removable Drives”, you can click “Scan” to quickly scan your Mac.
Of course, it would be better for you to click the “Deep Scan”, which may take you more time, but it really gives you a more complete detection of the formatted data.
Step 4: Recover formatted SD card data.
This is the last step to recover formatted data. With step 3, you can get all of the formatted SD card data listed on your Mac, deleted or existing files. This is the moment that you should click the basic data types on the left pane, and then you can preview the data details on the right window.
If you still can’t see your needed file, the built-in “Search” engine or the “Filter” may do you a great favor.
Finally, you click the “Recover” button to finish your recovery.
Warm tips: Even though you successfully recovered your formatted SD card this time, don’t be careless. You’d better always remember to back up your files each time, preventing such things from happening again.