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USB Format Error

"Disk is not formatted; do you want to format it now?" Have you ever run into such kind of error messages while using your USB card to download some data from a computer or upload some files to a computer? If it happened to you what mentioned above, then, you should pay special attention to the information below.

Here are some common cases of USB format errors, read to see if you had the same problem as they do:

Are these problems familiar to you?

I have a small and cute USB drive, and it worked fine all the time until yesterday afternoon, it refused to work any more. I don't know why but it just gave me the error message over and over again! Whenever I connect it to the computer, it asked me to format it. I have no other choice but to follow its advice, but I failed time and time again! What's the matter with it? Can I have the numbers of music and photos back to me? I hope there should be someone who can help me out.

My SanDisk USB drive was infected by virus and I had to format it when I noticed it. But Things just went athwart; it showed that I could not have my USB drive formatted! The only way I could think of was to format it again and again. But nothing happened! I still can't format my USB. Is there anyone who can give me some advice?.

If you had the problem like above, do not worry. It is very possible for you to recover your data from the unformatted USB flash drive.

Solutions for USB format error:

It happens that we might not be able to format our USB drives. Once the format error occurs, it will results in data loss and we could have no access to the files any more. You can also find that the USB drive is showing RAW file system. In that case, the quickest way for us to regain our data is to fall back on the backups we have made previously. But some of us are too lazy to make any backups of important files. What can these people do to get the lost data back?

The most feasible method for this problem is to apply to the data recovery software. It is a powerful program which is capable of restoring data of different formats and types. Besides, it is highly compatible with all popular operation systems.
More importantly, the data recovery software is particularly simple to use. It is perfectly designed to meet the needs of general public. It is not necessary for you to master the professional knowledge and technical skills before you can use the program to restore your data from an unformatted USB drive. Before getting the lost files, you had better not format your USB drive.

Recover Data before Removing the USB Format Error

Before removing the USB format errors, it is necessary for you to restore the fatal data on your USB drive. The right way to rescue the inaccessible files on an unformatted USB drive is to stop using the drive and get the data recovery software to restore it. Following are a few simple steps for you to perform the program:

Recover data from USB drive when has format error

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your PC. Insert the USB drive to your PC and run the software.

1Download the data recovery software and install it to your computer workable.
2Launch the recovery program and it will detect the drives on your computer.
3Choose the scan mode and have the program scan the target files on the SD card.
4Preview the files found by the program and select the ones you expect to recover.
5Set about recovering and store the retrieved data to another disk available.

Note:

  • Please do not install the data recovery program to the problematic USB drive or save the retrieved data to the USB drive.

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