How to Fix SD Card Not Formatted Error & Recover Lost Data from It

September 21 2017 18:52 pm/ Post By Yoli Software to File Recovery

"I am trapped into a serious problem: I planned to copy all photos and videos stored on my SD card to computer. So I insert the SD card to computer but each time when I tried to view the files on SD card, I was warned 'Your SD card is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?'. How can I fix this? Should I format the SD card? I don't want to loss any data!" said Ivan.

Guess the problem that Ivan comes across is not strange to you. Yes, people constantly meet problem like that. Usually, they might receive error reports like these ones: "You need to format the SD card before you can use it", "SD card not formatted, do you want to format it now?", "SD card is not accessible, access is denied"...

What Causes SD Card Not Formatted Error

The following text will list out some of the main reasons that might cause this error occur before you fix it, which will be helpful for you to avoid the problem in the future.

Pull the SD card out of your camera or computer when it is working
Turn off the camera abruptly with SD card attached
Sudden break off when you are moving files from SD card to PC
Some other applications are resulting this problem
You haven't formatted your SD card for a long time
Continue to use your digital camera when it is in low battery mode
You have inserted the SD card into multiple devices that are running different systems

How to Fix SD Card Not Formatted Error and Recover Lost Data

Well, the problem is not that difficult to fix as long as you do it right. Next, there will be 2 solutions suggested to help you repair the SD card not formatted.

Solution 1: Restart your digital camera or Android phone. In this way, the application that is occupying the Micro SD card will be closed. If the error still exists, you may forward to the next solution.

Solution 2: Unfortunately, if "SD card not formatted error" keeps popping up and you can't get access to your SD card, you need to format it first, which means that all the files will be removed. Yet, you can get them back with the help of certain tools. After this problem is fixed, you can use Yolisoft Data Recovery to recover erased files from SD card.

Yolisoft Data Recovery can recover lost pictures, videos, music, zip files, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and other files from SD card, CF card, USB drive, hard disk drive, MMC, etc. It is very easy to use and you can explore the instructions below to see how it works.