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    Ultimate Guide to Recover SDXC Card Multimedia Files


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      Summary: What happens when all your photos and videos get lost from your SDXC Card? This post tells you how you can recover all your data from SDXC Card with the help of Stellar Photo Recovery software.

      You own an SDXC (Secure Digital Extended Capacity) card that impressively showcases more storage and greater speed. Typically used in digital cameras, DSLRs, drones, android phones etc., due to their ability to store a large number of high-resolution videos, audio, and photos, SDXC cards are considered more secure than normal SD cards. But the bitter truth is, however faster is read & write speed of your SDXC card and of whichever brand they may be, there is always a risk of data loss. SDXC cards can get corrupt, formatted, or damaged due to a virus, abrupt system shutdown, etc., which leads to the loss of heavy multimedia files saved on them. To ease the task of SDXC card data recovery, this post brings the step-by-step guide to recover multimedia files from SDXC card. So whether the SDXC card is of an android phone or else any camera, follow this guide to restore all your multimedia files.

      How to recover multimedia files from SDXC card?

      The best way to recover multimedia files from SDXC cards is to use Stellar Photo Recovery Software. It is a highly secure and safe tool and technically adept to assure the recovery from sophisticated SDXC cards. Be it of any high-end camera brand, DSLR, android phone, or drone, the software easily restores high-quality videos, audios, and photos from damaged, corrupt, or formatted SDXC cards. Moreover, it performs SDXC card recovery without compromising on the original quality of the stored videos and photos etc. The Stellar software supports hundreds of audio, video and photo file formats and even allows to add any new file formats that are not mentioned in its recoverable list.

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      Highpoints of Stellar Photo Recovery Software

      • Simple and intuitive interface
      • Faster recovery
      •  Supports RAW recovery
      •  Supports scanning of 2 TB of storage space
      • Recovers data with original date time, Camera Model/Name, Resolution, and Filename
      • Supports thumbnail recovery for severely corrupt photo file formats
      • Safe and secure

      Step-by-Step Guide for Successful SDXC Card Recovery:

      1. Launch Stellar Photo Recovery Software.Stellar Photo Recovery Standard
      2. Next, select the location from where you want to recover. Click Scan to start the scanning process
      3. A dialog box of ‘Scanning Completed Successfully!’ displays the scan results – number of files found and size of the data. In the left pane of the main window, all the recovered data is listed. You can preview them in the right pane.Stellar Photo Recovery- Scan
      4. Click Recover. You can also choose to recover only the selective files – select files that you need, right-click, and click Recover.Stellar Photo Preview Screen
      5. In the dialog box, specify the location to save the image files. Click Save. All the files get saved at the specified location.Stellar Photo Save screen

      Other important methods to recover multimedia files from SDXC cards

      Usually, high-quality multimedia files in faster and advanced storage media like SDXC cards are difficult to recover through manual approaches still you can try the below methods to recover lost multimedia files.

      1. Perform Chkdsk

      Follow the given steps to perform a check disk on your computer:
      •  Go to the Windows Start option
      • Type cmd in the Search box
      • Right-click cmd and select the Run as Administrator
      • A command prompt opens, type chkdsk < SDXC card drive letter>:/f (e.g., chkdsk E: /f)
      • Hit Enter

      2. Reinstall the driver

      Try this solution, when your PC does not recognize the SDXC card. To reinstall the driver follow the below steps:
      •  Go to My Computer/ This PC and right-click on it
      • Follow Manage > Device Manager
      • Double-click Disk Drives from the list
      • Right-click on the name of your removable drive
      • Click Uninstall. Click OK
      • Disconnect your SDXC card and restart your PCReconnect your SDXC card, the system will detect it now

      3. Assign a new drive letter

      Sometimes, the SDXC card letter does not show up in the list of drives on your computer. As a result, you are unable to access multimedia files stored on it. To assign a new drive letter to your SDXC card by following the given steps:
      • Connect the SDXC card to your PC
      • Open the Run dialogue box using the Windows+R key
      • Type compmgmt.msc and hit Enter
      •  On the left pane of the window, under Storage choose Disk Management
      • On the right pane, right-click the drive you want to assign a letter
      • Choose Change Drive Letter and Paths
      •  A dialog box will appear, click on Change
      • Check-in Assign the following drive letter
      •  Choose the letter you want to give from dropbox. Click OK
      • Close Computer Management window

      Conclusion

      Even highly advanced SDXC cards are not free from data loss. To combat this issue, use Stellar Photo Recovery which supports ultra-high speed SDXC card recovery. It works in every situation of video and photo loss including accidental deletion, formatting, or corruption. The software easily restores high-resolution photos, 4K videos, and audio files lost from the SDXC card. You can download the free trial version to evaluate the performance of the software for SDXC recovery. For any query, feel free to comment below or contact our customer support.

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      Prachi Sahu

      is a Writer who likes to blog about technology. She has a keen interest in Data Recovery, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. An avid reader, she has also contributed to some leading newspapers and dreams to own a library some day.

      17 comments

      1. I had a SanDisk SDXC card 64 GB doesn’t recognize on my laptop? Any help would be appreciated.

        1. Hi Beth, internal card readers on laptops from 2008 and prior may not support SDXC card. SDXC will work in Compatible readers (not SD readers) if the computer OS support exFAT.

      2. A few weeks ago, I accidentally formatted my SD card without backup, all the HD videos and Music songs lost. Is it possible to recover? Any suggestion would be appreciated.

        1. Hi, Yes you can recover your videos, audio files with the help of our software, If you not overwritten, reformatted the SD card. I suggest you can try our software demo version and see the preview of your lost files.

      3. I used 256 GB micro SD card for my GoPro camera. But due to some reasons some video worked and other didn’t. I used your Photo recovery program and its help me to resolve this issues. Thanks!

        1. Hi Barb, Hi, SDXC devices are compatible with SD, SDHC and SDXC cards. All features may not be available with SD and SDHC.

        1. Hello Kimberly, You can try micro SD XC card to another computer or you can contact SanDisk support and they can help with authenticating the cards. Thank you!

      4. My SD card didn’t show in the list drives on my windows computer. Thanks for providing the steps to resolve this problem!

      5. I had deleted a series of images on my Canon camera SanDisk Extreme Pro 64GB Class 10 UHS-I SDXC Memory Card taken over 4 months for a construction time-lapse for a client, without a backup. I was able to use Data Recovery to find and recover the files successfully. Stellar photo recovery saved the day and my reputation.

      6. I had recently purchased SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO UHS-I SDXC Memory Card (V30) been using in my camera Nikon D3300 accidentally deleted all videos and photos. Then I used your software, its work great!

      7. I had formatted that my Nikon SD card containing the images from the wedding. All original files are gone. Thankful the software Stellar Photo Recovery to get back my all images!

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