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How to Not Format SD Card While Inserted since There Is Data Inside
Have you ever been asked to format your SD card when you inserted it to computer with a card reader or other digital device? You can not access any files saved on it when the system prompts you to format it. You must don't want to format it as the recommendation if information saved on the SD card is very important and precious, because you will lose all once you formatted the SD card. As a matter of fact, you could restore files from it by data recovery software without formatting it.
Example of SD card need to be formatted before normal using
You need to format the removable disk before you can use it. Do you want to format it? Recently I received prompt above every time I double click my SD card connected to the computer. But always I would click cancel button, because I don't want to format the disk. There are massive valuable files saved on the SD card, so how can I format it and lose that important information? What can I do to find them back without formatting the SD card? -Marcie from Bismarck
How to restore data saved on the SD card which needs to be formatted
Do not insert the problematic SD card to computer or any other digital device before it be fixed. And recover information saved on it with the following guidance step by step after you are told data recovery software could help you. With the software, you can also recover data from USB drive when it needs formatting and recover data from other storage media.
Recover data from sd card
Preparation: Connect the SD card to your computer. Download and install the data recovery software. Then, you can run the software and select proper recovery module.
Conditions guarantee the success of data restoration with data recovery software
Sometimes you may fail to restore data from the SD card need to be formatted with data recovery software or just retrieve a part of lost files. So you would think that data recovery software is not that useful. But the truth is you could retrieve all your losses with data recovery tool as long as you follow conditions as follows:
1. Stop using the questionable SD card and plug it out of the computer or other digital devices.
2. Do not format the problematic SD card before data saved on it was restored.
3. Download and install the data recovery program on the computer hard disk not the SD card.
4. Choose one of the hard disks as the location to save the retrieved information.
Reasons of SD card from needing to be formatted problem
Many people wonder that why my SD card needs to be formatted before I can use it. The following explains may help you make it clear if you also are puzzled about question above:
1. Virus and worms attacks. You need to format your SD card if it infected by virus, and virus and worms may come from malware and suspicious files.
2. System corruption. You could connect your SD card to another computer or digital devices on this condition to check whether your SD card work normally.
3. File system error. You need to format it if your SD card turns to raw.
4. Other similar reasons.
Digital devices that support to insert the SD card
SD card is widely used to save more information in this day and age. The internal memory of digital devices could not satisfy people's need so they choose SD card to expand their storage capacities. But it is not true that every digital device support the SD card to expand its storage capacity. Here are some common digital devices could be inserted to SD card and detect it:
Some phones, cameras, MP3, MP4, MP5, camcorders, and others. All digital devices above support SD card function just for some of their series. Foe example, Samsung Galaxy S4 could be inserted to SD card, but iphone 4S could not.
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