How to Recover Data from SDHC Card That is Showing "Not formatted" Error?

If you are getting annoyed when you encounter "not formatted error" or "The card is not formatted, do you want to format it now?" error when you connect your SDHC card to your system or any other digital gadget, then just be calm, and continue reading to know how to overcome this issue, and get back all your files on SDHC card. You are facing such an error because your SDHC card is damaged or corrupt. Due to this type of error message one will not be able to access the data that is stored on the SDHC card. This is obviously quite irritating but there is a solution for this kind of problem. It is possible to get back data from a corrupt SDHC card. The solution which will help you to restore data which is unreachable due to memory card corruption is SDHC card recovery.

SDHC card or any other memory card gets corrupt in many usual and unusual situations. If you eject this card from a host device while the data is getting moved from it, corruption is resulted and error such as the one mentioned above keeps popping up to indicate that the card is damaged. This condition results in the inaccessibility of different picture files that are saved on the SDHC card. But it is not a big issue and pictures will not remain unreachable forever due to such a corruption of the card. Photos that are inaccessible due to Secure Digital High Capacity card corruption can be recovered within few minutes with the help of this utility.

When micro sd card not formatted error is encountered many users think of formatting the card. Some users drop this idea as formatting the card would mean losing all the crucial videos, images and other popular media files. But some others feel that it is better to format the card and they format their flash card without bothering about the data that they have stored on their card. After formatting, these users realize the importance of files and get into deep depression thinking that now they will never get back those beautiful pictures which they lost after formatting the card. But it is a big misconception that data is lost permanently after formatting the memory card. In reality it is not so. It is definitely possible to retrieve data after formatting the card. This application supports recovery of data from formatted memory cards.

This software is well designed with some special algorithms that support recovery of data from corrupt SD card on Macintosh machines such as Mac Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard, Lion and Leopard. It is the perfect solution to restore data such as JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG, CR2, NEF, MP3, MP4, RAW, PSD and RAF which are unreadable due to SDHC card corruption. This program is also capable of recovering data from corrupt Secure Digital High Capacity card on Windows 8, XP, Vista and server computers. You can effectively restore various brands of SDHC cards such as Transcend, SanDisk Kingston, A – DATA, Verbatim etc.

It is quite possible to retrieve images or any other media files that are inaccessible due to corruption of SDHC, SD, MicroSD, MicroSDHC, miniSD and miniSDHC cards with the help of this ultimate application. You must try this utility if you want to restore SanDisk SDHC card which is damaged due to improper removal or virus invasion. This safe to use tool will also help you to recover data from SDHC cards of Toshiba, Kingston and Samsung brands.

Verbatim flash memory cards are available in different data rates such as class 2, class 6, etc. They are used  excessively in a number of portable gadgets. If the Verbatim SDHC card got corrupted due to some reasonsthen you can make use of SDHC card recovery tool  for performing Verbatim SDHC 32GB Class 6 data recovery with ease.

SanDisk Extreme cards are known for their high data speed and data storage capacities. However, an Extreme card may encounter card not formatted error due to various reasons. But you can perform SanDisk Extreme card recovery with the help of SDHC Care Recovery tool in order to overcome from this issue.

Simple steps to recover data after SDHC card not formatted error:

Step 1: Download, and install the free version of SDHC Card Recovery Software on your system. Now, launch the software, and Connect the SDHC card from where files has to be recovered to your laptop/desktop. From the main screen choose "Recover Files", and then select the SDHC card from the list of available logical drives, and hit Scan button to initiate scanning process.

SDHC Card not Formatted Error - Main Screen

Figure 1: Main Screen

Step 2: The tool now scans the SD card to locate lost/deleted files from the card. In this stage, you can see the progress of file recovery as shown in the figure.

SDHC Card not Formatted Error - Select SDHC Card

Figure 2: Software Scanning the SDHC Card

Step 3: The files will be displayed for a review at the end of the scan procedure. The files will be listed in Data View and File Type View. You can verify the file contents just by right-clicking on the particular file item.

SDHC Card not Formatted Error - Preview Screen

Figure 3: Recovered Files in Data View & File Type View

Step 4: Now you can continue to save the recovered files to any suitable drive location.

SDHC Card not Formatted Error - Preview Screen

Figure 4: Save Recovered Files

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