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Compact Flash Drive Unformat Raw after Power Outage
Have you ever met something terrible when your computer suffering power outage? Do you want to format the CF card in order to fix the error? This article is useful for you if your problem is to face an unformatted raw compact flash drive after power outage but files saved on it are vital and crucial. Do you have any idea how to get those useful files back from the unformatted raw compact flash drive? Don't worry, because you have the ability to retrieve all your losses quickly. But you need the help of data recovery software.
Case of encountering an unformatted compact flash drive due to power outage
You need to format your disk in drive R before you can use it. Do you want to format it now? Drive R is my compact flash drive, by the way. I saw information above when I reboot my computer and double click the compact flash drive. What's going on? I could access data saved on the compact flash drive just now. The computer closed suddenly because power outage when I watched videos saved on the CF card. And all contents saved on it are inaccessible when the computer is rebooted. Anyone can help me? -Peter from Tupelo
How to get back data from the unformatted raw compact flash drive with data recovery software
When prompted that compact flash drive turns to raw and need to be formatted before you can use it, please be too panic to keep calm. There is no need for you to behave so worry, even all data on it is inaccessible. You can get them back with data recovery software actually. Here are the steps below:
Recover data from 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.
Various damages because of abrupt power outage
After seeing example above or based on your own experience, we can get that power outage will lead to an unformatted raw compact flash drive when it connected the computer. It seems that power outage is a terrible thing which can cause huge loss. As a matter of fact, there is some common damage brought about by power outage as follows:
1. Power outage result in an unformatted raw compact flash drive. We can get such trouble from example above and also know how to get back files from it with the data recovery tool within 5 steps.
2. Data saved on the compact flash drive become invisible after a power outage. You may not be able to view information on the compact flash drive when it connected to the computer after a sudden close.
3. Abrupt power outage may lead to physical bad sector on the computer hard disk. When the computer is running, the hard disk is operating with a high speed. But if suffer a sudden power failure, the magnetic head of hard disk will turn back to 0 sector. So result in the damage.
4. The storage Medias themselves may be corrupted because of the power outage. The principle is similar with the reason of the computer hard disk’s corruption.
Correct usage to compact flash drive in order to avoid unformatted raw problem
Power outage can bring about an unformatted raw compact flash drive. What's more, there are more than one bad consequences that suffering a power outage. But actually, the unformatted raw compact flash drive appears not just because of power failure. There are many other conditions. Here are some proper usages to compact flash drive in case of unformatted raw problem as follows:
1. Try to avoid abrupt power failure when the compact flash drive connected the computer and is at working. There is possibility to let the compact flash drive turn to unformatted and raw on such condition.
2. Do not let the compact flash drive get in touch with virus and worms. Virus can be contained in software and files and it can destroy the compact flash drive itself and information saved on it when we download and install or open them on the CF card.
3. Plug the compact flash drive out of computer when reinstall the OP on the computer. There should not be any external storage devices on the computer when start to reinstall the operating system for the computer.
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