Did you just format your Memory Card While Exploring Your New Camera?
Needless to say, after formatting your card, you have nothing but an empty card ready to store fresh data. This is so because formatting readies the card to store fresh data by marking all the previously stored data ready for overwriting. But formatting doesn't wipe the data that was stored. The data exists, but cannot be seen by us. To view the files and photos, just download the free trial version of a card data recovery software, and get a preview of all your deleted or formatted photos.
These software are third-party applications, and have separate versions available for installing on different operating system, like Mac, and Windows. These applications can be easily downloaded and installed on your system. To recover your file(s), you need to buy the full version of such a software application. These applications apply complex algorithms to your hard disk drive to extract all the data that has been marked for deletion, but has not been written-over to.
Note: Be careful when you choose a software to download. Some of these software are malware and freely available. Always trust and download software from a company that has ample experience in this field and has established itself. Some of the free to download and install card recovery applications are malware, and may wreak havoc to your systems. So don't blindly trust any software from any company.
Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery Software is one completely reliant card data recovery software that recovers all the audios, videos and photos from any kind of card, including, PC cards, CompactFlash cards, SmartMedia cards, Memory Sticks, Multimedia cards, Secure Digital cards, XD-Picture Cards, and Miniature Cards. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, NT, 2003 and 2000, this tool also supports recovery of file formats of most of the camera makes, including Nikon, Canon, Sony, Kodak, Fuji, Minolta, Olympus, Pentax, and Sigma.