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Why SD Card Asks to Format It Suddenly

Have you ever been asked to format your SD card suddenly? System may ask you to do so when you just connected it to the computer or you were reading or writing information saved on it. What is the first thing you will do if you happen to encounter this kind of problem? Will you format your SD card as required? What if you have saved much vital and crucial data on it? So you should not format your SD card first when asked to do, but retrieve files saved on it with data recovery software.

Example of being asked to format SD card abruptly

A small popup comes up when I seeing movies saved on my micro SD card and said you need to format the disk in drive R before you can use it, do you want to format it? With a result, I can not watch it any more. I have no idea about what happened totally. I not choose to format it because I have saved a large amount of data except from movies on it. Why need I format the micro SD card suddenly? What should I do? Any one could kindly assist me? -Elena from Chicago

How to get back data from SD card that need to be formatted with data recovery software

You don't need to be worried about data loss if you are asked to format your SD card suddenly, because you could retrieve all your loss totally by yourself with the help of data recovery software. The following steps will teach you how to restore data from unformatted SD card efficiently:

Recover data from unformatted sd card

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the SD card to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.

1Download the data recovery software and launch it on the computer.
2Plug the problematic SD card into the computer.
3Start the data recovery and choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the restorable files in the list after scanning and select the needed to recover.

Why SD card need to be formatted abruptly

Maybe you are entangled with reasons that you need to format your SD memory card after being asked to do so. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of reasons bring about it. If you still have not made it clear, the following information could help you to some extent:

1. Data saved on the SD card has been damaged.

2. Virus and worms has attacked your SD card.

3. SD card have not been connected to computer well.

4. Partition table error.

5. SD card have connected to incompatible digital devices.

6. Other similar reasons.

Storage devices that may encounter need to be formatted prompt

Now that SD card, one of the storage devices, would be asked to format, how about other digital devices? Will the need to be formatted situation happen to them? Actually, such problem may happen to any kind of storage device, such as hard disk, external hard disk, memory card (including Smart Media(SM), Compact Flash (CF), Multi Media Card (MMC), Secure Digital (SD) Memory Stick, and XD-Picture Card (XD)), even could happen to internal memory of digital devices. So you should not be more careful when using any of those storage devices in daily life.

Actions after recover data from questionable SD card successfully

You should save the restored files on one of the computer hard disks first when choose the location to save them. Then have a check to see whether all needed data has been retrieved. If all your losses have been found back, you could format the SD card as required. Remove the recovered data to the SD card when it is usable again.

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