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Unformat MMC Card
It is a very annoying thing to meet a MMC card not formatted. You can not save any new contents in the unformatted MMC card, you can not view any data saved on the MMC card previously, and even you can not open the MMC card which is unformatted. To conclude, there is nothing you can do to an unformatted MMC card. What if there are a lot of important files still saved on the MMC card but there is no backup? You should ask data recovery software for help at that time.
Case of the MMC card needing to be formatted
I have a problematic MMC card and I have no idea how to fix it. When I intended to remove files on it to my computer, system tells me it is unformatted and I need to format it before I can use it. How can I format it? I can not, because there are massive files saved on the MMC card. Those files are very vital and crucial for me. What I need is to get my losses back as soon as possible. Is there any way for me to retrieve the lost information from the formatted card? -Maggie from Detroit
How to retrieve information from the unformatted MMC card with data recovery software
Those inaccessible files on the MMC card which is not formatted have an opportunity to be retrieved from the problematic MMC card. You should not format the MMC card immediately but get its data back at first. Data recovery software could help you restore all of them quickly. Here are its steps as follows to show you how it works:
Recover data from formatted MMC Card
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, conect the MMC card to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Other related MMC card problems with unformat error
Do you have any idea what the MMC card not formatted means? In other word, do you know what the unformatted MMC card is? As a matter of fact, the MMC card need to be formatted before you can use it is one of the MMC card problems. It could be said that files saved on the MMC card have been lost on that condition. Here are some MMC card unformatted problems as follows:
1. The MMC card can not be opened. There is no way for you to open an unformatted MMC card unless you format it. Whether you left click or right click on the MMC card icon or other ways you tried, the MMC card will not be opened. You can format it if there is no useful information on the MMC card and then you can use it normally. But you should get back the lost files with data recovery program if there are important contents on the unformatted MMC card.
2. The MMC card file system may show raw. You can check the file properties if you are asked to format the MMC card before you can use it. Then you may see its file system is raw and both the used space and the free space is 0 byte. It may because of the virus infection or other reasons.
3. You need to format the disk in drive X before you can use it. Do you want to format it now? Usually, you will see information above if the MMC card is unformatted under windows operating system. And there are two options, format and cancel for you to choose. It is better to retrieve the needed information first and then format the MMC card.
4. Files on the unformatted MMC card are accessible and no new data could be stored on it. It is obviously there is no data is accessible and no new contents could be saved on it before it is formatted. But you can retrieve the inaccessible information with data recovery tool and format it to save new files then.
5. Other similar related problems.
What is MMC card?
MMC card, whose full name is multimedia card, is a kind of standard quick memory card. It is developed by SanDisk and Siemens in 1997. The size of MMC card is about as same as the size of stamp, which is 24mm × 32mm × 1.5mm. the multi media card could be read and wrote 300,000 times. What's more, it could be used to nearly all digital devices that support the memory card using.
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