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SD card says to format recovery
We may meet such problem that the SD card can not be opened after being connected to the computer. What’s more, we would be asked to format the memory card before we can use it normally. For example, disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now? Some of us may worry about the usage of SD card itself. We can format it directly in that case, actually. But other people may think of files on the v previously. As a matter of fact, we can perform unformatted SD card recovery firstly and then format it in that case.
Case of SD card needed to be formatted
My bro told me that he was asked to format the SD card before he can use it. As a matter of fact, I did not make it clear what the SD card says to format problem is at first. Then I got is that we can use the unformatted memory card normally as long as format it. But my brother said that he does not want to format it because there are many contents vital and valuable stored on the secure digital memory card. What's more, he hoped recover those original files. How I can help him? -Sun from Utah
How to retrieve information from the unformatted SD card with data recovery software
The way to restore files which saved on the SD card at the previous time is to use data recovery program when it asks format problem. It is better to perform SD memory card unformat files recovery at first and then format it. Here are the steps as follows to tell us how to perform in detail:
Recover files from unformatted SD card
Preparation: Plug the SD card to your computer and download the data recovery software. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Problems we may meet when use the SD card
We may feel anxious when asked to format the SD card before can use it normally after connecting it to the computer. We can try to retrieve the information saved on the secure digital memory card originally thanks to the data recovery tool. But as a matter of fact, there are more than one problem we may encounter when use the memory card. Besides SD card unformat error, there are a lot of other problems we may meet during the process of using the memory card. Here are some of them below:
1. The SD card turns to raw file system. Generally speaking, the file system of secure digital memory card is fat, fat32, or exfat. But the files system of SD card may become raw some times. Raw is a kind of system error, and we can not use the memory card normally if its file system is raw. And we need to format it if we want to keep use it. but we can try to recover the data vital from the raw SD card with data restoration program at first.
2. The SD memory card is infected. We may see files suspicious stored on the SD card sometimes. The names of those suspicious contents may be weird, such as contain weird characters. Those files may contain harmful matters such as virus and worms in that case. We may not b able to use the memory card or can not read information on it after the virus infection.
3. The secure digital memory card is damaged physically. We may see the flash chips on the SD card if we watch it carefully. We can not view files or folders saved on the secure digital memory card if the flash chips of it were damaged, such as the SD card is divided into a lot of parts. Such damage belongs to the physical corruption, in which case the lost files may not be able to be retrieved forever.
4. Other problems when use the SD card we may encounter, which lead to the data loss trouble.
Series of SD card which may be asked to format
There are more than one kinds of SD card, whose full name is secure digital memory card. For example, we may use normal SD card, mini SD card, micro SD card, SDHC card, SDXC card, and so on. They can be used to different digital devices according to their distinct size or capacity. But all of them may show unformat error when we use them, and we can ask data recovery tool for help to get their previous information back.
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