How to Recover Photos from SD card with memory card error?

Hey, last night, when trying to share some photos inside my camera SD card on my laptop, I just received a message saying: “The disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?” and could not access anything there without format. But, that formatting process would also erase everything inside. What am I supposed to do now? Is it possible for me to take photos out without format? Thanks for any suggestion here!

Hi Igna!

Well, first of all, *dont format it yet*. There are various way you can still recover the contents of the SD card. You can actually download softwares that can do the job you need. Here is a sample site that may help you. I'm not promoting in any way though, this is just what i found on the net.

"How to fix it("")":http://www.anysoftwaretools.com/how-to/fix-memory-card-not-formatted-error.html

Hope it helps,
Kevin

What have you done to this SD memory card? Have you formatted it yet? Or have you taken your desired photos out now?
If not, I know some detailed steps could help:
*Step1*. Stop using this SD card in case of farther data loss troubles. And also do not format this SD card to increase the data loss risks.
*Step2*. Insert it to your computer with a card Reader and try memory card photo recovery software to see whether your photos could be all recovered.
*Step3*. Save and back up all recovered stuffs on different drives or locations in case of data recovery failures.
Just learn a lesson to always prepare SD card data backups and also update these backups in the future.
Want to read more detailed photo recovery information? Visit these posts:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recovery
Or http://www.icare-recovery.com/faq/memory-card-not-formatted-error.html

Hey, friend! After experiencing mobile phone Micro SD card file loss problems, I know the deleted data off from memory card could be restored back with the help of deleted data recovery software before these original SD card photos are overwritten by new photos, files and the likes on the same memory card.

So, before you really decide to format your SD card with not formatted error, you can also keep this SD card away from new stuffs and go try some photo recovery software.

Honestly, last time, I have read many related articles, posts and threads and learned this. Perhaps, you may also visit these posts and learn more detailed information like:
http://not-formatted.blogspot.com/2013/08/sd-card-not-formatted-error.html

Timely back up all restored photos well on another memory card, flash drive or hard drive

Hello, it is possible to restore data from not formatted camera memory card as long as this memory card has not been rewritten by new files, photos, videos and others. Moreover, in your case, to avoid increasing the difficulty of complete SD card photo recovery, you are also supposed not to format this card before you take everything back.
So, in this moment, take this SD card out from your camera and check whether your wanted photos could be recovered back with photo recovery software like:
http://freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/03/memory-card-recovery.html
Or http://www.4cardrecovery.com/howto/memory-card-is-asking-to-format.html
Hope you can successfully get your photos back.

When memory card requires formatting, the stored information inside, like your photos, goes nowhere. It is still stored there and could be stayed there till you do write something new there.
So, in other words, as long as you do save no new stuff on this not formatted memory card, your pictures may be all restored there and only inaccessible.
To make them all visible and useful again, you can use some data recovery software to have a good try.
So, in your case, read more photo recovery articles here and see whether your pictures are still recoverable:
http://freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/03/memory-card-recovery.html
Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_recovery

Your SD card is asking to format is because its file system is turned to RAW. Formatting of your SD card is only a way to convert its file system from RAW to FAT32 or NTFS and probably fix the not formatted error, but before you formatted it, get the important photosfrom your SD card with some recovery tool like "SD card recovery Mac(SD card recovery Mac)":http://www.card-data-recovery.com/mac-data-recovery.htm. After that, format your SD card and everything will back to normal.

Hi,
I would like to tell you that don't format your SD card. There are also several ways to recover those data from Sd card. You can use *SD card recovery* software to get back the deleted data. Using this recovery tool will help you to get back the lost photos from SD card and that too without losing the original data. Just download this software and use it without any hesitation.

http://carddata-recovery.com/memory-card-recovery.php

Your SD card is asking to format is because its file system is turned to RAW. Formatting of your card is only a way to convert its file system from RAW to FAT32 or NTFS and probably fix the not formatted error, but before you formatted it, get the important files from the card by a third-party tool such as "Memory Card Data Recovery(Memory Card Data Recovery)":http://www.card-data-recovery.com/mac-data-recovery.htm . After that, format your SD card and everything will back to normal.

You can try Tenorshare "Card Data Recovery(Card data recovery)":http://www.tenorshare.com/products/card-data-recovery.html which have been helped me a lot.

Don't panic! I think I can help you!
First, Do not format SD card!
Second, Plug SD card out in case of data loss.
Then, download photo recovery software.
If you you want it for free, I recommend Ease US photo software.
But if you want it to be more efficient, I recommend Jihosoft photo recovery: http://www.jihosoft.com/recovery/photo-recovery.html.
Be sure you download right Win or Mac version.
Connect your SD card to computer via another card reader, and follow procedures!
It helped me anyway!
Good luck.

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Well you can possible recover the entire data of the SD card. It is a very common problem faced. For this you just have to make use of the *Card Data Recovery software*. It is very effective and provides all the features which are necessary for recovering data. It can recover deleted, damaged as well as formatted SD card data.
So if you haven’t formatted the SD card there is no need to format it. Only you require taking the necessary step for recovering the data.

For more information visit this post: http://www.carddata-recovery.com/blog/recover...-from-a-dead-sd-card-that-has-stopped-working

This will help you to successfully recover all the data

I've been in this situation before. First, several reasons may cause this situation, for example, the system is attacked by the virus or partition is damaged by faulty operation, do not click format, or you will lose all of your photos. Second, you need a third-party software to do the trick because it requires high technique. You can view this article, it shows you how to recover your photos step by step, very helpful.
http://www.jihosoft.com/recover-data/usb-drive-not-formatted.html

I think the easiest would be to leave the card in the camera and use the cord to transfer the images thru usb. That worked for me anyway.

No need to worry, you can easily recover your data from memory card using Data Recovery Software Wizard. Just connect your memory card with the card reader and your data can be recovered. It is a Window based software and provides 30 day free trial version.

For further information, visit: http://www.bitrecover.com/data-recovery-software/

Hi!!! Sometime it happens that you unintentionally delete photos from your memory card and then you try to recover it in every manner you can. But unfortunately, you find yourself unsuccessful. But do not worry at all, because here you will get the complete solution to recover photos from memory card even if the memory card shows an error. You can now recover deleted photos from memory card with *Rescue Digital Media* software. When it comes to photo recovery, i would always suggest you to try this software because when i faced the same issue i tried this software and was successful. Follow the link below to know more about this software and the steps involved for the photo recovery:

http://www.rescuedigitalmedia.com/recover-deleted-photo-pictures-memory-card