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Kingston CF Card Data Recovery after Format by Mistake
CF card allow us save a lot of files on it and we can view them on the computer with a card reader easily. Here may something bad happen to it on the other hand. The CF card may be formatted by error, for instance. What would you do if you happen to format your Kingston CF card, especially there are many important files saved on it? Do you have any idea how to get back the lost information from the formatted Kingston CF card? The advice is to ask data recovery software for help.
Case of formatting the Kingston CF card by accident
I have kept the habit of saving data vital and crucial on my Kingston CF card since I purchase it last month. And I carry with the CF card wherever I stay. But something unfortunate happened yesterday, I formatted it by accident. As a result, I lost all my files saved on the Kingston CF card. I have tried so many ways from my friends to retrieve all my losses, but none of them take effect. Is there other flexible method can help me find back my lost data after formatting? -Merlin from Canada
How to restore information from the formatted Kingston CF card with data recovery software
You have the ability to retrieve it if you accidentally format the CF card on which data saved, so do not worry. But you need a helper in order to get back all your losses. It is data recovery software, which is very helpful to data restoration. The following steps will show you how to use it:
Recover data from formatted cf card
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the CF card to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.
Notice of which should be took once the CF card was formatted accidentally
You should be careful when you do everything, so does retrieve lost files from the formatted CF card. Actually, you should take care at once when you formatted the CF card by mistake. Here are some cautions to which you should pay attention if you want to get back all needed data from the formatted CF card as follows:
1. Do not save any new data on the formatted CF card. One situation is that you backup some files but not all from the formatted CF card, so you saved those backup on it after the CF card was formatted. Please keep remember that never act like this. Information has not been retrieved may be overwritten by those new files.
2. Do not format the formatted memory card more times. You may try to get back your losses by reformatting the CF card. But it does not work at all in fact. What makes things worse; such kind of operation may reduce the chance to restore all the losses.
3. Unplug the formatted CF card from the computer or other digital device before you get that how to get back files on it.
4. Do not download and launch the data recovery program on the formatted CF card.
5. Do not store the recovered information on the formatted CF card before the retrieval process is over.
Different CF card is formatted situations
CF card may be formatted by mistake which lead to the data loss situation without your consciousness. Case above shows that formatting action can bring about data loss problem. As a matter of fact, there are not just accidental formatting situation happen to CF card. Here are some different CF card is formatted scenarios as follows:
1. CF card is formatted by error.
2. CF card is formatted on purpose. It is formatted may due to anti virus or other reasons.
3. CF card is formatted because of RAW file system. System will suggest you to format the CF card before you can use it when it can not read the CF card.
Brief introduction to Kingston
Kingston is a technology company which founded in 1987. The headquarters of Kingston is located in California. In the beginning, it was just the manufacture of a signal product. But now, Kingston develop to sell 2000 kind of storage devices which support nearly all kinds of digital devices such as computer, server, printer, MP3 player, digital cameras, phones, and so forth.
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