How to Recover Formatted SD Card on Mac?

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Peter

updated on 2018-03-03 to Removable Device Data Recovery

Lose data due to formatting SD card on Mac

"Hi, I need help to recover my data from a formatted SD card on my Mac. So yesterday, I unmounted my SD card from my phone in a hurry. And I didn't realize what would happen until I connected my SD card to my MacBook. I wasn't aware that my MacBook asked me to format the SD card, so what I did is just click the format button. I lost all the photos of me and my friends. I forgot to backup the photos so now I want those photos back. Can you please help me recover the formatted SD card on the MacBook?"

recover formatted SD card on Mac

It's a common problem which happened to most of us. Many Mac users are lost their important files because of unmounting the SD card in a wrong way. Instead of ejecting it first, you may just plug out the SD card from your device. As a result, when you connect it to the Mac, your Mac computer will ask you to format the SD card because some of the data got corrupted.

Solution: recover formatted SD card on Mac

How to recover lost data from formatted SD card on Mac? Don't worry, there's a solution to recover your data from a formatted SD card under Mac OS. The easiest solution for you to recover formatted SD card on Mac is probably by using a data recovery tool. There are various data recovery programs you can choose. In this article, we recommend you to use Magoshare Data Recovery for Mac to help in recovering formatted SD card on Mac.

Just like its name, this one is made specifically for Mac computer. So unlike other similar software, there will be no issue when you're using this software to recover your lost data from formatted SD card under Mac OS. Aside from that, you will find that it's so easy to recover lost data with Magoshare Data Recovery for Mac. All you need to do is only doing few simple clicks, and your data can be recovered.

Moreover, Magoshare Data Recovery for Mac offers an advanced deep scan technology which able to find lost data a lot faster. And of course, this software able to recover almost all type of files. Now, let's talk about how to recover formatted SD card on Mac using Magoshare Data Recovery for Mac.

Step by step instruction to recover formatted SD card on Mac

Step 1: Select the formatted SD card.

First of all, connect the SD card with your Mac. Now, run Magoshare Data Recovery for Mac on your Mac computer. After it's running, you can see all the storage devices connected to your Mac computer. Choose the formatted SD card.

How to Recover Formatted SD Card on Mac?

Step 2: Scan the formatted SD card to find lost data.

Click on "Scan" button to deeply scan the formatted SD card to find lost data.

How to Recover Formatted SD Card on Mac?

Step 3: Recover your lost data from formatted SD card.

After the scanning process is complete, you should see all the lost data. Now, just choose all the files you want to recover, and click "Recover Now" button to start the recovery process. After that, just wait until the data recovery process is complete. Once the process is done, check your internal hard disk to see that all the lost data is recovered.

How to Recover Formatted SD Card on Mac?

Please don’t put new data to the SD card before you get all lost data back. Just immediately run Magoshare Data Recovery for Mac to scan the formatted SD card on your Mac, it will completely and quickly recover all lost data from the formatted SD card.