When you are using an Android phone, you may insert an SD card to extend the phone’s internal storage. However, SD card’s space is also limited. One day, you may format the SD card to release some space for new data, or you may format the SD card by mistake. If there are some important files on your Android SD card, is it possible to recover formatted SD Android?

 

The fact is that you can use this free Android data recovery software – MiniTool Mobile Recovery for Android Free Edition to make formatted Android SD card recovery. Now, you can download it from the MiniTool official site and install it on your computer to have a try.

 

How to Recover Formatted SD Card Android with MiniTool

 

Step 1: Remove the Android SD card from your Android and insert it into an SD card reader. After that, please connect the reader to your computer and open the software to enter its main interface. Then, you will see two recovery modules of this software. To retrieve formatted files from Android SD card, you need to use the Recover from SD-Card module. Choose that recovery module to continue.

 

Step 2: Then, you will see the following interface. Click on Next button to continue.

 

This software will show you the SD card it can detect. You need to choose the target SD card and click on Next button to start the scanning process.

 

Step 3: It will take some minutes to finish the scanning process. After that, you will see the scan result interface as follows. Then, you can choose the file you want to recover and click on Recover button to choose a proper path on your computer to save these files.

 

Since this freeware allows you to recover 10 files of one type each time, you can choose to update this software to its advanced edition to recover your Android data without limitation.

 

In addition to this software, you can also use MiniTool Power Data Recovery to recover formatted SDE Android. To get more information about this issue, please read this post: How Do You Recover Files from Formatted SD Card Android?