Hello,
Yesterday, I shot a 10 minute long footage on my Sandisk SD card.
Then it was mistakenly formatted, and then re used (to shoot some videos and pictures) and then again formatted when given to me.
Is there any chance of restoring the videos that I took (before the two formatting sessions)?
Thanks a lot!
Regards,
Alon Levin.
Slim to none.
Absolutely you have a chance to recover data from sandisk, although you formatted it. and if you don’t recopy data on sandisk, you can get the old data back completely. my articleyou can refer to. hope this can help you fix the problem.
@tommy517 wrote:
Absolutely you have a chance to recover data from sandisk, although you formatted it. and if you don’t recopy data on sandisk, you can get the old data back completely. <spam link removed> you can refer to. hope this can help you fix the problem.
Nice try Tommy. But if you read the OP’s post carefully you see that he said, “I shot a 10 minute long footage on my Sandisk SD card.Then it was mistakenly formatted, and then re used (to shoot some videos and pictures) and then again formatted”
So you see there was data stored on the card, it was formatted, more data written to the card, and then formatted again. I doubt even the program you provided the the link to (aka SPAM) would help.
Well you don’t need to panic. Now you can easily recover video from Sandisk SD card with the help of Photo recovery software. It can recover videos of any file formats like AVI, MPEG, FLV, MOV, M4V, WMV from formatted or Sandisk memory card. Apart from Sandisk, it support KIngston, Lexar, Transcend and other digital card. So just connect the Sandisk card to the computer using card reader and then scan it using the software and recover lost data. For more information, read:
http://www.memorycardrecovery1.com/sandisk-memory-card-recovery-is-now-possible
Sounds like spam to me. 
And so has been reported as such.
Yes, you still have chance to recover formatted videos from SanDisk card. I ever recovered formatted data from my card with a useful tool. However, you had better not use your card now, you can know more here: How to recover video from SanDisk.
Also do I pull out the SD card do I take it out of my phone or do I leave it in there I don’t know what to do
You’re right to be skeptical here. Since the card was formatted, then used again, and then formatted again, a lot of the original video data has likely been overwritten. In cases like this, recovery isn’t impossible, but it becomes very hit-or-miss.
If the footage is important, it’s still worth trying a deep scan using a proper and powerful video recovery tool like Stellar Photo Recovery. You might get the entire video, fragments, or partially playable clips.
There is no chance of getting your original 10-minute video back. The new files have definitively broken its data structure. Because the SD card was used to shoot new videos and pictures after the first format, the fresh data directly overwrote the storage blocks where your original footage was saved. In digital storage, once new binary data (1s and 0s) replaces old data, the old data ceases to exist.
However, you can run data recovery software to scan your SD card and see if it can show you any recoverable files. Also read: 2 Ways to Recover Files with Original Folder Structure
Yeah, I know. I was young and at my very start of my photography and videography career. Learned a lot during the years and experience and this mistake never happened again.
Thanks everyone for the replies during the years 
Yes, that is possible, but it depends entirely on how much data was written to the card during the intermediate reuse period. When you perform a “Quick Format” on a memory card, the camera or computer only clears the file index directory. The actual raw video data remains intact until new data overwrites it.
Because you formatted the card, recorded new video, and then formatted it again, any data that was directly overwritten is permanently unrecoverable.
However, recovery may still be possible for the rest of the card. For example, if your new files occupied only 4 GB of a 64 GB card, the remaining 60 GB of data blocks would be untouched by the second shoot. The second format simply hid those older files again, meaning a deep-scan recovery tool could still piece them back together. Keep in mind that because video files are large and often fragmented across an SD card, the recovered footage might be partially corrupted—but you won’t know for sure until you try.
To maximize your chances, stop using this card immediately. Do not record any more footage or format it a third time. Download a professional recovery software on your computer, connect the SD card using a card reader, and run a deep scan of the drive.
Crucially, when running the recovery scan, never save the recovered files back onto the same SanDisk SD card. Save them directly to your computer’s internal hard drive or a separate external drive to avoid overwriting your own data. This blog will help you - How to Recover Videos from SD Card on Your PC and Mac?
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