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How to recover app data from forgotten SD Card?

Mar 10, 2018
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So I recently got a new SD card. Stupidly I removed the old one and chose to forget it on my android device without thinking. I now have some missing app data that is really important I retrieve. Is it possible to still get the data out of the SD card? Is there a way to get my phone to recognise the card without formatting it? If not can I get windows to recognise and read the card without formatting it instead?

To be clear the sd card is formatted for my device but since I hit forget my device cannot recognise it and wants to format it.

I am using a Motorola Moto G5 running android version 7.0.
 
If the card was formatted as "Internal" storage and then forgotten the the device, you can't get that data back. It is gone.
 
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