How to Fix Mobile Phone Memory Card Not Formatted Error

Have you ever met the case when the external memory card on your mobile phone showing "memory card is not formatted" error? It says memory card not formatted and then asked you to format it. You followed the instruction and formatted it, but still got same message again. How to fix this kind of phone card format error? Here are the right steps for get rid of this kind error and recover data.

STEP 1: Take the problematic memory card out of your cell phone and connect it to another computer (better runs Windows OS). See if the memory card can be accessed normally. Sometimes this way can clear the buffers and eliminate incompatibility and make the card be good working again.

STEP 2: Still won't help? Then try recovering data first of all if you have precious files in the memory card. Just connect it to your computer that has installed Recuva and then start to perform data recovery.

STEP 3: After you perform memory card data recovery, then follow those steps to format the error memory card on your PC. My computer -> Management -> Storage -> Disk Management -> select the problem memory card and then format it here. After format it should make your memory card working again.

STEP 4: Things are not over. After formatting, re-try the recovery software recommended above to see if you can retrieve more data from the memory card. Done!

How to Recover Deleted Photos from Samsung Galaxy

Samsung Galaxy smartphones have been very popular in recent years. Solid quality plus competitive price have been many phone users’ NO 1 choice. But even the best cell phone cannot eliminate human errors such as your precious photos taken with the phone may be lost due to unexpected deletion or formatting, virus attack etc. Then is it possible to recover deleted photos from Samsung Galaxy in this case?

The answer is yes or no. Why?

If the deleted pictures were saved in phone internal memory, the answer will be No. But this is very rare because most of the media files taken in this type of phone are stored on a tiny piece of memory card.

If they were saved on the external memory (mass memory like a SD card, memory stick etc), then the answer is YES.

Then what to do then? By relying on a such third-party image recovery tool, you can get this done though chances of recovery is not 100%. This article has showed how, depending on whether you've rooted your device or not.

How to Do? Connect your Samsung phone (memory card) to the computer first, then install the photo recovery program. Open it and choose the drive your phone card represents and start to scan for the lost files. Then get the found photos recovered easily.

Note: the core of successful Samsung photo recovery lies in whether the data on the phone memory car are overwritten or damaged. So the most important thing you should do is protect the phone (memory card) safe. Even if the phone is broken or wet due to water damage, as long as the memory card is OK, then the data is also OK.

Before Samsung photo recovery, you should remember - Immediately stop take any more pictures or other files with your Samsung phone, or save any more data to the memory card in case you may quite possibly ruin the chances of photo recovery. Once the original photos are overwritten, it is almost impossible to recover.

Update: if this doesn't work out for you, contact Samsung support for more info (they have been quite supportive).