Virus infection makes your memory card data lost?
“What the hell! My Kingston 16G memory card was infected by virus in the computer of school library when I needed to download some paper from data base! And virus makes my memory card empty, many data including some important photos and documents. How can I recover data from my Kingston memory card?”
This kind of situation won’t be strange in our daily life. Most of us love to use memory card to store and transfer data, because of its large capacity and portability.
If you have been used to use memory card to transfer data between different devices, it is very easy to be infected by virus in memory card. Generally, virus can make all data corrupted in memory card. So, unfortunately, memory card is infected, your data in the card must be lost. If your data are important, you need to recover lost data from memory card after infected.
Steps for Virus infected memory card lost data recovery
Indeed, we don’t need to be panic when I lost data from virus infected memory card. There are chance to get back lost data from memory card.
1.Remove the virus from memory card firstly
After finding your memory card is infected by virus, the first aid must be removing virus from your card. You can connect the infected the memory card to a computer which have been installed an anti-virus program. When your memory card is connected to computer, the program will alert that virus exists. If not, you can select your memory card to be scanned in anti-virus program. The program will help you clean virus, and format your memory card.
2.Recover lost data from memory card
After you clean up all viruses from your memory card, you can begin doing, memory card lost data recovery after virus infected. However, before you get back lost data, you should remember that don’t save new data to your memory card.
Formatted data in virus cleaning process won’t be erased from memory card storage space, but if you save new data to the card, those invisible files will be overwritten by new data. That’s because those formatted files have been tagged as useless by file system.
To get back lost data from formatted memory card, you can use professional memory card data recovery program.
Card Data Recovery may the best of them. Its Windows and Mac version can help users to get back deleted, formatted, lost files including photos, images, documents or other kinds of files. It support for SD card, CF card, SDHC card, and Micro-SD card, etc.
How to recover virus infected memory card data with few steps
STEP 1: Connect the Memory card (contained your deleted or inaccessible files) to your computer running Windows or Mac os.
STEP 2: Scan your memory card for lost files. Download and install the Card Data Recovery for Mac to your computer. Launch the program and follow the guides to let it do a scan of your memory card.
STEP 3: Recover found files. You can preview the recovered files, and choose the one you want to get back, then hit the recover option to let them fully recovered.
