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Quickly Recover Lost Photos on FAT32 Partition Using MiniTool

MiniTool Mac Photo Recovery Can Recover Lost Photos on FAT32 Partition

Most SD cards and memory cards are using FAT32 file system and users can use these cards to increase the internal memory of cameras, mobile phones, and more. Thus, these cards should save some important files especially photos for users.

However, if these photos are lost or deleted unexpectedly, it will be big trouble. There is no time to be sad. The first thing most users concern about is how to recover lost photos on FAT32 partition?

Before answer this question, users should know that once the files are lost or deleted from SD cards/memory cards, they are not wiped from the drive immediately. The sectors they occupied are just marked as zero, and any new data is allowed to be written in.

However, before these lost photos are not overwritten by new data, users still have a chance to recover photos from memory card/SD cards. The only tool they need is a piece of third-party photo recovery software and this tool should be professional.

Usually, photo recovery software should have both Windows edition and Mac edition. In this post, we will talk about restoring photos from FAT32 partition on Mac and the reliable photo recovery software is MiniTool Mac Photo Recovery.

From the name of the software, users can know that it can be used to retrieve photos on Mac computer. Moreover, it can also rescue audios and videos from hard drives, SD cards, memory cards, and more.

Users can press the following button to get the free edition of this software to check whether it can find the photos they want to recover.

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In the following content, we will show users how to recover deleted photos from SD card free with this software.

How to Recover Lost Photos on FAT32 Partition Mac?

Suppose that users want to recover photos from SD card on Mac. They can follow these steps:

1. Insert the SD card into a card reader and connect the reader to the computer.

2. Open the software to enter its main interface.

3. Press the Start button to continue.

click Start

4. The software will show users the drives it can detect on the interface. Users can select the target SD card and press the Scan button to start the scanning process.

scanning process

5. After a while, the scanning process will end. Then, users can see will see a list of data types on the left side of the interface. They can press each type from the list to view the items in it and find the photos they want to recover.

scan results

6. If users discover this software can find the files they need and want to use this software to recover lost photos on FAT32 partition, they need to update this software to a full edition. They can contact MiniTool to get such an edition.

After updating this software, users can check all their needed files and press the Save button to select a location but not the original memory card to save these files. At last, they can use these recovered photos at once.