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Card Not Formatted CF Card Recovery
Have your CF card occurs the not formatted error when you want to access files on them? What would you do when windows pop up the disk on drive R is not formatted, do you want to format it now? Or windows can not complete the format? Both the signs mean that you can not read and use all files on CF card. Please be ease, it is not a big deal if you want to recover all your data on the CF card as long as you ask data recovery software for help. It will help you retrieve files you want efficiently.
Cases of not formatted CF card
The disk on drive R is not formatted. Do you want to format it now? It has bothered me a couple days. Every time I open my picture saved on the CF card, this prompt shows on my computer and Windows recognizes the CF card as RAW drive. I don't think it as a big problem until I click the format disk button, system tells me that windows can not complete the format. What's going wrong with my CF card or my computer? I don't intend to lose all my pictures at all. They are so precious. How can I retrieve my photos? - Johnson from Maine
How to recover data on unformatted CF card
When comes to this kind of not formatted CF card error, the first thing is not to work for how to format the CF card successfully but try to retrieve data saved on it. So follow the steps below to recover data first.
Recover data from unformatted cf card
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the CF card to your PC and run t he software. Then, select a recovery option.
Possible reasons that CF card cannot be formatted
If you find that your CF card cannot be formatted, it may because the following reasons:
1. Infected by virus.
2. Power failure.
3. CF card is corrupted by heat, striking, etc.
4. CF card is damaged while writing or reading.
5. The flash chip of the CF card is ruined.
Knowledge you should know after encountering not formatted CF card
When you meet not formatted CF card problem, don’t be disappointed. Is it hard for you to release? Then please keep the following common sense in mind;
1. The data you can not access is not lost actually. It just is hidden in some place on your CF card where you cannot view. The data recovery tool could help you read them again as long as it is not overwritten.
2. Avoid overwriting happen to your can't be seen data. Because only in this condition could all data be restored by data restoration program.
3. Put the problematic CF card in a safe place before you figure out how to restore your data on it.
Data on which kind of memory card could be restored by data recovery software
Data recovery software could retrieve data on varieties of memory card. Once data saved on them is deleted or memory card formatted by intention or mistake, infected by virus and other reasons of data losing, it could restore them safe and quickly. The memory card include Smart Media(SM), Compact Flash(CF), Multi Media Card (MMC), Secure Digital（SD）, Memory Stick, XD-Picture Card(XD).
Which devices could use CF card
There many kinds of digital devices could use CF card to save files such as music, picture, videos, messages, game stuff, and so on. Music players, cameras, DSLRs, camcorders, game console, all of them could be inserted to CF card.
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