How to Recover Deleted Video from SD Card

SD Card is used in many consumer electronic devices, and has become a widespread means of storing videos and photos for mobile phones and camcorders. One of the major problems in use of SD Card is how to retrieve deleted videos. First, let’s see an example:

Recently, I deleted my pretty important videos that are recorded on my son’s graduation ceremony and finally realized the seriousness several hours later. Therefore, I tried to find software to recover them from my SD card since I had read something of the recovery stuff in some forums before. But I could not remember the detailed information. Any information and solutions will be very welcome, especially the solutions that you have personally used and have had success with. Thank you very much in advance.

To recover deleted video files from SD Card effortlessly, you need the help of this SD Card Video Recovery. It is the ideal choice to get back deleted video in various kinds of formats like MP4, AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, FLV, ASF, SWF, WMV, MPEG, RM(RMVB), MKV, etc from SD Card. Moreover, it enables you to recover almost all kinds of deleted data including images, music, emails, etc from local Mac drive, external hard drive, digital camera, USB drive, memory card and more. More powerful features for explore.

Please note: Stop using your device immediately after you realize that you’ve deleted video accidentally in case overwrite your SD Card.

Recover Deleted Video from SD Card

Here we will take get back deleted video from SD Card on Mac as example. First, download the Mac version of this SD Card Video Recovery and install it. If you are Windows user, please get the Windows version. Then, follow the steps to restore deleted videos from SD Card.

Step 1 Preparatory work: Take out the SD Card from your device and connect it to your computer with a card reader. Next, launch the Application.

Step 2 Click “Lost File Recovery” in the main window and the “Lost File Recovery” window pops up. Here list all logical drives.

Step 3 Check the SD Card drive that you want to retrieve deleted videos. Then choose “Video” from “Selected File Type” option. If you also try to get back music, photos, etc from the SD Card, just select “All Files”.

Step 4 When everything is ok, click “Scan” button on the top left corner to start scanning your SD card. This step may last a few minutes. Please be patient.

Step 5 Once the Application stops scanning, all existing videos on your SD card are listed. Expand the folders one by one on the left and you will see the deleted videos in the folder show in the bottom list. Check all the boxes of the videos that you desire to restore and click “Recover” button on the bottom of the window.

Step 6 You are asked to select a folder on Mac to save the retrieved videos. Please note that: you are not allowed to save the restored videos to your original SD Card in order to protect your deleted video.

Step 7 Now, just click “OK” and the Application will start recovering the deleted videos from SD Card as your desire.

Special Tips just for Windows Users

Have you notice “Please select a Recovery Module below, or go to the Wizard” in the primary window after you run the Windows version of this SD Card Recovery? That means you can recover deleted videos files from SD Card by both the following four Recovery Modules and the Wizard. The later method is more straightforward, I think.