An increasing number of people incline to use memory card for its compact size, convenience and comparatively high storage volume. Inferior in stability, memory card is just like a condensed mobile HDD, taking up less space than mobile HDD. Lost data in memory card is also recoverable through a simple method.

What is cell phone memory card?
To meet personalized demands of users, many cell phone brands today have set external storage device, namely memory card. Cell phone memory card can be used to store music, movies, e-book, game software and other data information. There are diverse cell phone memory cards for cell phones with distinctive performance such as MMC, SD, TF, M2, Mini SD, MS, Sony memory stick, which are common to see.
Where memory card can be used?
As a matter of fact, memory can be used not only on cell phone, some digital cameras, MP4, MP3 can also connect memory cards.

Types of memory card:
SD Card
SD card, namely, Secure Memory Card, is a new generation memory device based on semiconductor flash memory, which is widely applied on portable equipments such as digital camera, PDA and multimedia players.

Mini SD Card
Compared with ordinary SD card (such as DC or SD card used on DV) prevailing currently, Mini SD card is small in size with weight of 3g, size of 21.5x20x1.4mm, which is 60% smaller than ordinary SD card. Don't underestimate Mini SD card with so small size, it could save 40% volume of digital devices to produce smaller cell phone, DV and any other digital devices. In view of storage volume, Mini SD card is no bad than other storage devices to cover various storage volumes ranging from32MB, 1GB to a couple of G.

TF Card
TF card, abbreviated from TransFlash and also known as T-Flash card, is co-developed by Motorola and SANDISK and released in 2004. TF card is probably the smallest card currently with volume of 11*15*1MM which is 1/4 of SD card. TF card can be used as SD card after conversion by using adapter on devices which utilize SD card as storage medium. TransFlash is developed for camera cell phone to capture large-scale picture and download big video clips. Besides, TransFlash could store personal data such as digital photos, MP3, games and cell phone applications and TransFlash possesses built-in copyright protection management system to safeguard downloading music, videos and games. TransFlash in the future will have encryption function to protect personal data, financial records and health care files. Small size TransFlash allows producer ignoring cell phone volume to adopt this design and another flexible application of TF card permits supplier to change products in accordance with different demands of client, this is what built-in flash memory doesn't have.

MMC
MMC, namely Multimedia Card, is a flash memory standard co-developed in 1997 by Siemens and SANDISK based on Toshiba NAND flash memory technology, therefore with a size of 24mm x 32mm x 1.5mm, similar to a stamp, MMC is smaller than early flash memory base on InterNor flash memory technology such as CF.

RS-MMC
Same as MINI SD card, the newly released RS MMC is a super miniature flash memory card with size of 24 × 18 × 1.4 mm which is half of standard MMC and a little bit bigger than dime, inheriting and carrying forward advantages and high performance of MMC. RS-MMC equally supports ECC.

How to perform card memory recovery with MiniTool Power Data Recovery?
User may naturally doubt whether stored data in those tiny card is easy to lose. Today's digital products bear a functional nevertheless hazardous deletion function, potent enough to delete all useful data with improper operations. What's more, user generally holds that those valuable data is permanently lost. However, in fact, these data are recoverable with data recovery software for instance, MiniTool Power Data Recovery, developed by MiniTool Solution Ltd., is a pfrofessional data recovery software, easy in operation and powerful, recovering data from various data loss scenarios and requiring little space. MiniTool Power Data Recovery can not only recover lost data from memory card, but also damaged or lost partition and deleted files. Moreover, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is totally a free data recovery software. User may download MiniTool Power Data Recovery at MiniTool Power Data Recovery Download Center.



Install and run this software, then user may see five modules in the main interface:

• Undelete Recovery
  Recover deleted files.
• Damaged Partition Recovery
  Recover lost data from damaged, unreadable or formatted partition.
• Lost Partition Recovery
  Recover data from lost partition, full scan and recover all data in partition.
• Digital Media Recovery
  Recover digital files such as photos, audio or video files.
• CD/DVD Disk
  Recover lost data from CD/DVD disk.

When sliding mouse on each module, user could see descriptions of those five modules in the red zone.
Which module should be chosen to recover data from card memory?
Memory card serves as a storage device as hard disk dose under computer operating system and information such as partition and drive letter will be displayed when connected to computer. User should select corresponding module to recover lost data. In case user doesn't know cause of card memory data loss from a camera or DV, "Digital Media Recovery" is recommended to perform data recovery:



This module is prone to digital media recovery, performs special processing directing at digital media data information and perfectly recovers lost audio and video data from memory card with out scanning or recovering file data of other formats, cutting down plenty of recovery time. For more help or information about MiniTool Power Data Recovery, please visit MiniTool Power Data Recovery Help.

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