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Micro SD card not formatted
Do you plug the micro SD card into the phone or other digital devices? Have you ever met the micro SD card not formatted problem if you used it? Disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now? We would see messages above if the micro SD card we are using is not formatted, what’s more. In other words, we can not open the problematic micro SD card before format it, which means that we can not access information saved on the memory card previously.
Example of micro SD card showing not formatted error
My micro SD card which inserted to my cell phone was got into not formatted trouble. Information on the computer shows that you need to format the disk in drive R before you can use it normally when I connected the memory card to the computer. To tell the truth, I had no idea what happened at that time. All I known was that I have to view files saved on it at the original time at that time. I had no idea how to access those contents, either. Can you kindly help me? -Cary from New York
How to restore information from the unformatted micro SD card with data recovery software
As a matter of fact, we do not need to be worried when encounter the micro SD card not formatted error, because there is a chance for us to retrieve the previous files from it, and then we can read them normally. What we need is data recovery software in that case, by the way. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to perform the unformatted micro SD card data recovery in detail:
Recover data from micro SD card
Preparation: Connect the micro sd to your computer and download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Attention should be paid when micro SD card need to be formatted
It has known to us that we would be asked to format the micro SD card before we can use it normally when it is in not formatted error. And some of us may choose to format the problematic micro SD card at that time immediately to use it as soon as possible. But as a matter of fact, it is not proper to format the questionable micro SD memory card at once if we intend to perform not formatted micro SD card recovery to access its original files. Here are some tips below we should keep in mind:
1. Do not format the problematic micro SD card immediately. It is true that not format the unformatted micro SD card at once if we have to get the previous contents on it back in that case. Do you know the reason? As a matter of fact, we may fail to restore the information needed from the not formatted micro SD memory card if we formatted it at first. So we can format the micro SD card after the files recovery.
2. Do not insert the unformatted micro SD card to the phone or other digital devices to keep using it. it is better to stop using the questionable micro SD card if it is in not formatted trouble, but some of us may connect the unformatted micro SD card to the phone to which it was used previously. We should keep it in mind that stop using the problematic micro SD card until the end of data recovery.
3. Do not perform any check on the questionable micro SD card. It is normal that we want to get the reason that the micro SD card turn to not formatted situation. As a result, we may perform a series of check on the unformatted micro SD memory card to find out the reason. But actually, it is better not to perform any operation on the micro SD card other than the not formatted memory card files recovery.
4. Other things we should not perform on the unformatted micro SD card.
Kinds of memory card may get into not formatted trouble
There are various kinds of memory card we need to use to save more files, and the micro SD card is one of them. Like micro SD card, other types of memory card such as SD card, CF card, MMC card, and others may get into not formatted trouble. And we can perform not formatted memory card recovery on them, too.
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