SD cards and other flash memory cards are just as likely to be corrupted, damaged or prone to loss of data just like any other regular hard drive. If you are thinking, that all your photos are completely gone, after you formatted the memory card, you are wrong; because, the photos are very much existent on the memory card . They are not lost and you can recover deleted photos from SD card in most cases.

Pictures are stored on memory cards as files. It occupies a given space on the memory card. When you format the card, the data present in the file is not deleted. The disk space occupied by that file is now free to be overwritten by new data.

You can use REMO Recover (Windows) Media Edition software, to recover deleted photos from SD card with utmost ease. The software not only lets you recover digital photos of all well known formats, but also lets you recover RAW image files, which are used in various professional cameras.