Can You Recover Data from Encrypted SD card? How to Do That?

What is SD card encryption?

SD card encryption is a method to protect your data from unauthorized access and viruses. It turns the information on your SD card into unreadable code using encryption, and you need a password or key to access it.

SD cards are popular for storing photos, videos, and other files on devices like cameras and smartphones. To keep your data safe, you can encrypt your SD card using your phone or third-party software. This ensures no one can view the files without a password.

Decrypting an SD card depends on how it was encrypted. If you used a phone to encrypt it, you need the same phone to decrypt it. If you used special software, you'll need that software to unlock it. Please remember the password you set for encryption (you can write it down in a safe place), as it’s needed to unlock the data. Without it, recovering your files can be very difficult.

How to recover data from encrypted SD card?

If you used a third-party encryption tool to encrypt the card, you can easily decrypt it using the tool with a password. If you used an Android phone for encryption the SD card, the only way to access data on the SD card is to decrypt it.

Stage 1. Decrypt SD card with the password 

To recover data from encrypted SD card, you should decrypt the SD card first. Here’s a full guide on how to do this. Or you can unlock BitLocker without a password and recovery key by following this guide. If you want to directly recover data from encrypted SD card without extra steps like decrypting, you can go to the Stage 2 right now. 

Step 1. Connect the SD card to your PC. Then open File Explorer.

Step 2. Right-click the encrypted SD card in the This PC section and select Unlock Drive. Alternatively, you can directly double-click the target SD card.

Step 3. Enter the password in the prompted decryption box and then click Unlock to decrypt the card.

Stage 2. Recover the lost data

After decrypting the SD card, you can use a data recovery tool to retrieve your files. We recommend AOMEI FastRecovery, a reliable program that helps recover deleted or lost data from different storage devices, including encrypted SD cards. You can even recover data from encrypted hard drives even without needing the password.

♦ Complex data recovery scenarios: Recover deleted data from disk formatting, system crash, virus attack, encrypted disk, and more.
♦ Supports over 1000 file formats: Recover data types like .doc/.docx, .pdf, .jpg, .png, .mp4, .Zip file recovery, etc., from HDD, SSD, USB drive, SD card, and more.
♦ Quick scan and recovery: Recover data within seconds or minutes.
♦ Selective recovery during scanning: Pick specific files to recover without waiting for the entire scan to finish.
♦ Compatibility: Supports Windows 11/10/8/7 and Windows Server versions.

Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI FastRecovery. Choose the exact partition or disk where your data lost and click Scan.

Step 2. Then, the recovery tool start to scan and search. lt will execute the “Quickly Scan" first for finding your deleted data fast, and then execute the “Deep Scan" for searching other lost data.

Step 3. Once the scan is completed, all deleted files, recycle bins and other missing files will be displayed. Please select the file you would like to recover and then click "Recover".

Step 4. Then, select a folder path to save your recovered files.

Step 5. Wait patiently for this process of recovering ends.

Conclusion

Can you recover data from encrypted SD card? Yes, you can by following our guide. With AOMEI FastRecovery, you can easily recover encrypted files on SD card, USB drive, HDD, SSD without the password.