

The second thing I can think of is that the card may be a 4GB or higher SDHC card, and your computer's reader may be too old to recognize SDHC format. Could you first check to make sure that it's in the upward "unlocked" position (toward the terminals)? The first is that you may have accidentally placed the tiny write switch on the side of the SD card in the locked position. There's two possible causes that may be preventing the quick format. If the card reader doesn't recognize your card, and your computer is more than a couple years old, see below about purchasing a USB card reader.īut if all of the above has been tried, then give the computer quick format one more try. If you couldn't do it directly by attaching your camera to your computer, you should use your computer's card reader. Wanted to make sure that the first thing that you have tried to do, is to save and back up whatever files/photos that you have on that card onto your computer. I hope my answer can be of some help to you. Note: quick format won’t be necessary to erase all data.įor option 3: take the hard drive out of your computer and connect it to another computer to perform data backup. And re-use data recovery apps to see if you can recover the pictures. If you have nothing to harvest, then format the flash drive (under Disk Management, better not use third-party formatting tools). First I’ll suggestion you give a try one of the data recovery programs suggested in the post above like Recuva or Pandora Recovery etc. Once you lose it, you lose everything insides.įor Option 2: There are many possible reasons may lead to flash drive bad (or corruption we can say), but it’s highly possible for you to recover pictures insides. This is John, a fan of the blog :) I read your problems carefully and hope I can do something to help.įor Option 1: Sorry, the only way is to find the pictures is by getting the memory card back as those pictures should be stored on the card.
