AnsweredWhat Is the Difference Between Formatting and Deleting an SD Card?

Does formatting SD card delete everything? Yes, it does because disk formatting refers to the process of refreshing the file system used by your SD card. That is to say, it could remove all the existing data on it.

But please don’t worry because there exists a possibility to recover data from formatted SD cards as long as you only perform a quick format. Specifically, the quick format needs to delete all files from your SD card and generate a new file system for future use and designate the deleted space as free space. This guideline also works for deleting files from SD cards.

In brief, deleting files from SD cards means removing saved files on your SD card and adding new data to it. Different from Windows data recovery, the SD card doesn’t exist a temporary storage folder like the desktop Recycle Bin to keep accidentally or recently deleted files.

So your deleted SD files usually will become permanently deleted files. Without regular file backups, you may have no choice but to seek help from powerful SD card recovery software to recover deleted, missing, or formatted data from SD cards quickly.

Supported by AOMEI Tech, MyRecover can deal with various data loss scenarios such as deletion and disk formatting.

It can recover 200+ types of files such as images, audio, videos, MS Office files, WPS files, folders, compressed files, websites, etc.

MyRecover automatically runs Quick Scan and Deep Scan to search all the recoverable files after clicking Start Scan. During scanning, you can enter the filename, document type, path, size, date, and related information to quickly locate your needed files.