Thursday, March 7, 2013

SD Memory Card Not Formatted Problem – Recover Photos off SD Card When It Asks to Format

Question: SD Card Formatting Problem, Why Is It Unable to Format SD Card When It Shows Error Message?

 I have a 4GB SD memory card which contains lots of important family photos inside. I mistakenly plugged out the SD card when I was transferring some data form the memory card to my computer. Now whenever I plug it my memory care either with a card reader or a USB cable, the Windows will always pops up an error message that you have to format the drive before you can use it. But when I tried to format it, Windows will say another message that Windows is unable to format it. Is there any clue for this problem? I don’t want to lose the data inside the SD card. I also want this memory card work well again.

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The information above is a post on a forum. Typically, it is SD card not formatted error. All error messages about not formatted are the same or similar no matter it occurs on a SD card, a flash drive, a pen drive, a hard drive, an external hard drive or any other device. Of course, the method to solve such kind of problem is also similar. It is easy to solve this problem, but every step is very important and essential. You may lose all data forever even if you perform one wrong procedure.

Solution: First Thing First – to Restore Files from SD Card with Freeware
To recover data first or to repair SD card error first? It is a difficult decision if this is the first time for you to encounter such a problem. Therefore, you should be clear that you must recover data first before you can do anything to this error SD card. This is because if you repair the SD card first, data inside the card will be overwritten. You should know any data that has been overwritten is not recoverable. 

How to recover data from the error SD memory card?

SD card recovery software is specialized memory card recover application not matter the memory card has not formatted error or even if the memory card is not recognized by computer. To use the software, you should download and install it to your computer. However, you don’t have to worry that the installed software will affect the speed of your computer since it only has a small size which will not occupy many resources of your computer CPU.

How to Use Freeware to Perform Data Recovery on Not Formatted SD Card
Detailed steps on data recovery from not formatted SD card
Step1.
Start the software and choose proper recovery module.
Step2. Scan the SD card so that you can find all files inside the card.
Step3. Preview all found files so that you can confirm if you want to recover those files. You can specify if you want to recover all found files or just restore some files. 

Attention Please! Can I Format SD Card First before Recovering Data?
Absolutely no! You can never format the SD card before recovering data; otherwise, data inside the card will disappear forever.
Moreover, if you are unable to format the SD memory card on My Computer, you can have a try on Disk Management. Then you may need to search for a reliable repair tool to solve this problem.
Another attention please! Recovered data can’t be stored to the error SD card.
Finally, you can retry the SD card recovery software if you are failed to find all important files in the first time. 

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1 comment:

  1. nice share i have just followed your given procedure and succesfully recovered my memory card password

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