How to Save Data Before Formatting SD Card in Windows 10, 8, 7?

SD card needs formatting

As a storage device, SD card is acclaimed in users. They stored photos, videos, musics, games, and many other data. You know that format SD card will erase all data on the SD card. But some times, you have to format it. There are so many reasons that you need to format your SD card. For example, if your SD card cannot showing, you need to format it to the right file system; once there is virus attacking your SD card, you need to format it for reusing, etc. However, you may stored a lot of data on the SD card, which you would not like to lose after formatting. So you may ask, how to save data before formatting SD card?

Back up data before formatting SD card

Backup data before formatting SD card must be the very best way to save data. If there is no problem with your SD card, you can easily backup data from SD card to another place with copying, transferring, or other methods. However, when there is something wrong with your SD card, and you need to format it, you can not back up data on SD card so easy. 

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a great free third party software that allows you to format SD card and save data before formatting SD card. For how to save data before formatting SD card, you can follow the operations below step by step.

Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant, click "Clone" in the main interface and select "Clone Disk".

Step 2. Choose the hard disk that you need to clone as the source disk and click "Next".

Step 3. Select the destination disk to store the data on the source disk, and then click "Next".

Step 4. Then, you can check the source and destination disk in the next window or change to “Sector to Sector clone”, and click the "Confirm" button to continue if there is no problem.

Here, you can also click the "Settings" button to adjust the partition size on the destination disk or tick "4k alignment" to improve the reading and writing speed of SSD if the target disk is an SSD drive.

Step 5. At last, click "Apply" and "Proceed" in the main interface to start cloning the hard drive.

Backup data before formatting SD card has a great meaning to users. After backup SD card, you can start to format SD card to fix the error. Besides, AOMEI Partition Assistant is also a great partition manager that can help you manage your hard drives better, for example, if your SD card shows incorrect size, you can use it to fix the problem; If you need to use more advanced functions, such as, migrating OS to GPT disk without reinstalling and recovering lost partition on SD card, you can upgrade to AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional.