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Accidentally Formatted CF Card

It is generally believed that data loss from an accidentally formatted CF card is an extremely puzzling problem. In recent years, this problem has become even more and more common among CF card users. However, most of them are able to get a proper way to handle this problem. After all, to the human beings, there are always more solutions they can find than problems.

Users' exclaim on formatted CF card:

CF card users are very likely to be faced with such a problem that their affectionate memory cards might be formatted by accident and all files were deleted in that way. If you are a CF card user, you might also be faced with the same problem.

It was the worst day of my life. All the files on my CF card were suddenly corrupted, and it insisted inviting me to format the card to run the drive again. When connecting the card to my computer, Windows reports the CF card has RAW file system. I had no choice but to follow the instructions. And the result could be well imagined, all the files on the CF card were erased. Nothing was left to me! If I could cry them back to me, then, it must have worked. But nothing happened. What can I do now? Is there any body that can help me? If not, I am afraid things will have to get worse!

It happened moments ago. I just formatted my CF card by mistake. I was transferring some files from the CF card to my PC, suddenly it gave me an error message like this: disk not formatted, do you want to format it now? I did not notice it and clicked "yes" randomly! Soon after that, I realized what happened to my CF card because it turned empty. What a strike to me this can be? Please, I don't want to lose my precious files help me please!.

These problems are very common to be seen, and you do not have to worry if you meet with such a frequent problem. Actually, the solution has already been discovered by people.

Solutions for recovering data from accidentally formatted CF card:

The most direct and fastest way is to fall back on your backups if you have. But what if you don't have any backups? Then, you still have chance to retrieve your files. Use the format recovery software to help you, and all your precious data will come back to you as you expected. You will find this data recovery software on the internet easily, for it has been frequently employed by customers to recover data from formatted memory card.

CF Card Data Recovery after Format

If you happened to format your beloved memory card and lose everything stored on the card, do not worry and just stay calm. The only action you should take is to stop wrting additional data to the card and then recover your formatted data by means of the format recovery software.

Recover data from formatted cf card

Preparation: Download and install format recovery software on your PC. Connect the CF card to your PC via card reader or USB cable. Then, run the data recovery software.

1You need to download the data recovery software and install it to your PC.
2You should connect the CF card to your pc furnished with the data recovery tool ready.
3Launch the data recovery program and then choose the drive where data got lost.
4Wait while the software is scanning for lost files.
5You can start to recover your data now.

Note:

  • Do not interrupt the recovery process from beginning to the end; try to save the files retrieved onto your computer hard drive or some other memory drives

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