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How to Recover Files on Memory Card Asking for Formatting

If you want to recover files on a memory card which asks you to format it, try using a data recovery tool at once. This program is quite helpful in the aspects of data recovery. You can rely on it to rescue formatted files of a variety of types and formats. Besides, it does pretty well in all kinds of restoring tasks, such as recuperating files on SD cards, on CF cards, on XD cards, and on hard drives.

How to recover files on my memory card asking for format?

"I have a memory card which was filled with a lot of files, and most of them are very important to me. However, last night when I open the memory drive to load sometimes from it, it gave me an error message like this: the disk is not formatted; do you want to format it? I thought that if I said "yes", I would have to lose all the vital stuffs on the memory. But after running the "no" option, I was not allowed to access the data, either. What can I do to rescue the data from the memory card after formatting?"

First of all, you should stop using the memory drive immediately; this will contribute a lot to refrain from overwriting. And then, you should check if you have any backups of the lost data. Had any, you could format the media card and then copy the backed-up files back to your memory card.

Provided that you haven't taken any backups beforehand, you'd better fall back on the data recovery software to help you retrieve the data after formatting. There is no doubt that data recovery tool would cost you fewer dollars and less time. In the mean time, it is safe and able to protect your privacy as good as possible.

Why does my memory drive ask for format?

There are quite a few scenarios that your memory card might ask you to format it. When the memory drive is infected with virus, it will ask you to format it in order to remove the virus from the card and renovate it. On the one hand, the virus can be eliminated by doing so, while on the other hand, all the data on the media card is also wiped out at the same time.

Besides, a sudden power failure during the loading process of a memory card can be deadly. This interruption would lead to disorder of file systems. And in this case, you need to format your memory drive although it will result in data loss.

Furthermore, if you store too much data on the memory card, it may also require you to format it so that there is room for new data to be written in.

Restore data on memory cards which want formatting:

Since the memory media asks you to format it, you have no access to the inside data without formatting. However, if you format the card, you cannot access the files, either. Because they are invisible so you can't see them even you managed to open the storage media. Data recovery tools can help you bring it to light again. Just perform the program as the following steps:

Recover data from unformatte memory card

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. You need to connect the memory card to your computer through a USB cable or card reader and run the software.

1Open your computer and download the data recovery tool and install it to the computer.
2Connect the problematic memory card to the computer and launch the recovery program immediately.
3Select the recovery module and initiate the program to scan the files.
4Preview and pick out the valuable files that you want to restore.
5Recover the selected files and save them to another storage media with highly security.

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