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RAW Compact Flash CF Card / CF Card Not Formatted Error
Do you have any idea what the raw compact flash card is? You may get it if you have ever met one. The raw CF card is a compact flash memory card whose file system is raw. There is no other way to use the raw compact flash card normally but to format it. Then we can save new data on the formatted CF card. But the problem is that files important or unimportant saved on the compact flash card previously would be lost after the formatting. There is a way to solve that problem, in fact.
Case of compact flash card turning to raw
My compact flash card turned to raw when I inserted it to my brother's computer. I have supposed that there must something goes wrong on that computer, and plugged that CF card into my own computer to access its files. But the file system of compact flash card was still raw when I checked the disk properties. And then I totally had no idea what is going wrong. I can not open the compact flash card days later. What should I do to restore those files without formatting the CF card? -Ben from LA
How to get back information from the raw CF card with the help of data recovery software
The way to solve the compact flash card raw problem is to retrieve the inaccessible information and then format the CF card to let it usable. We can ask the data recovery tool for help to restore what we needed from the raw compact flash card and when it says unformatted error. here are the steps to recover lost files with the data recovery tool as follows:
Recover data from raw cf card
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the CF card to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Attention should be paid when retrieving the disappeared data
Data recovery tool could restore files and folders from the compact flash card not formatted quickly and easily. But there is a condition to make sure all the needed files could be retrieved from the raw compact flash card. That condition is those files and folders saved on the CF card originally have not been overwritten by other new data and there is no other corruption happen to the compact flash card. Here are some cautions below we should take notice of when restoring the useful information:
1. Do not format the memory card when it has raw file system. We have talked that the raw compact flash card could be usable after being formatted, but data saved on it previously would be lost. So we should not format the problematic CF card at once before the needed information have been restored. Some people may say that data recovery tool could get lost information back from the formatted compact flash card, too. It is true to some extent. But you may reduce the chance to retrieve what needed form the raw compact flash card after formatting it, because the formatting action will damage those files and folders at the second time.
2. Do not keep the unformatted compact flash card inserting to the computer. It is better to plug the raw compact flash card out of the computer when have no idea how to get the inaccessible files back. There may be some other corruptions may happen to the compact flash card or its data when surf on the internet if it is still connected to the computer.
3. Do not choose the compact flash card which is not formatted as the location to save the data restoration tool and files to be recovered. In the steps above, we will be asked to select the location twice. The first time is to store the data recovery tool when launched it, and the second time is to save contents to be retrieved after recovering. It is better to save both of them on one of the computer hard disks before the compact flash card turn to normal completely.
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What is compact flash card?
CF card, whose full name is compact flash card, is a data memory device which used to portable electronic devices, such as radio, and so forth. It use the flash memory to help us save files and folders at the first time, and be published by Sandisk, which produce and make the related slandered in 1994,
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