How to Encrypt and Decrypt SD Card

SD Card Encryption
Encrypting SD card is a good way if you don’t want people other than you have access to your SD card and check the files. In regard to SD card encryption, there are some facts that you need to know about:
1.Even use a same key on different device, it doesn’t give you access to the SD card.
2.Encrypted SD cards can only be red on the device used to encrypt them. And once you lose the original device where you encrypt SD card, all files would be gone.
3.If your device is reset to factory default settings, it will be unable to read encrypted SD cards.
4.During the encryption process, the SD card cannot be used.
5.Before you start, make sure that the battery is charged and keep the device plugged in until encryption is complete.

How to Encrypt SD Card
Before encrypting SD card, you have to think about whether you can take the risk of losing data if the device is broken. I’d highly recommend to backup the important files.
1. Encrypt SD card in android phone
Step 1. Find “Settings” on your android phone and click “Security”.
Step 2. Select “Encrypt SD card” and set up a password on the SD card.

2. Encrypt SD card with SD card encryption software
There are many SD card encryption tools. Bitlocker is a built-in tool on Windows 10 to password protect SD card.
Step 1. Right the disk of your SD card and select “Turn on Bitlocker”.
Step 2. You can choose the way to unlock SD card, using password or smart card.

How to Decrypt SD Card
You can only decrypt SD card on the same device that you encrypted it.
1. Decrypt SD card in android phone
Step 1. Click “Settings” and select “Security”.
Step 2. Select “Decrypt SD card” and type the password you set up to decode SD card.

Encrypted SD Card Recovery 
It is necessary to do encrypted SD card recovery when you forget the password and need to export data from SD card.
1.Go to File Manager on your phone and select Settings> System Folders. Then find mmcstore file and send it to your computer by Bluetooth. Use Notepad to open this file, and the password of encrypted SD card is located here.
2.Run FExplorer and open C:\system. Find the mmcstore file and rename it as mmcstore.txt. Then copy it to your computer and open it with Notepad. Check the password in the file.
Or you can try RePicvid Free Photo Recovery to restore photo/video/audio from encrypted SD card. If you are going to give up the data, just format the encrypted SD card with Diskpart.

Free SR2 Photo Recovery

What SR2 Is
SR2 is the original image format of Sony camera, which is created when you took a photo with the camera. As with photo negatives, the original digital image may have a larger dynamic range or color range than the final image format, and most of the information captured is saved. The original image format is designed to save data acquired from the sensor, and minimize information loss.

When to Conduct SR2 Photo Recovery
Have you lost the SR2 file or deleted it from Sony digital camera? Considering that you're on vacation, you've captured too many photos from your Sony digital SLR camera. When you preview the photo, you accidentally hit the wrong button to delete all. As a result, all SR2 files have been deleted, and the SR2 image you clicked on has disappeared in your camera. So, what will you do now to recover the original SR2 file deleted or lost?

How to Recover Deleted SR2 Photos from Sony Camera
To accomplish this task, you need a reliable photo recovery tool. Gihosoft has released RePicvid, a free photo recovery tool that can easily recover deleted or lost SR2 files from the Sony camera. The application has a highly co-active interface that makes recovery easier, even for new users.

It also supports loss situations below:

• Incorrectly format the memory card of Sony camera
• Sony camera memory card damaged.
• The camera/memory card is suddenly removed from the system during transmission.

Step-by-step Instructions to Complete SR2 Photo Recovery:

• Select: Choose recovery option (Photo/Graphic, Video/DV, Audio/Music, All File Types), and storage media (Supporting computer, USB flash drive, memory card, digital camera, etc).
• Advanced Settings: You can select file formats for precise scanning, like (Photo) JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, RAW, etc. (Video) AVI, MTS, MP4, MOV, WMV, etc. (Audio) WAV, AAC, MP3, WMA, OGG, FLAC, etc.
• Scan: This is the most important part of the recovery process. Please wait patiently for the results.
• Preview: Click the image and its thumbnail will be shown above. You can also play the deleted videos and audio files.
• Recover: This step allows you to save the recovered photos. But for video and audio files, you need to register and use this function.