Guide to Recover Formatted Memory Stick

In this article we will be taught with a guide to recover formatted memory stick. We will not be troubled in data recovery from formatted memory stick from now on.

About Memory Stick

Memory Stick is a popular memory card type launched by Sony in 1998 to store files, especially digital photos. Most Sony Cyber-shot and other cameras use memory stick. There are several types of memory stick including Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, HG, Duo and Memory Stick Micro (M2). Capacities of memory stick are from 32 MB t 8 GB. Memory Stick also can be used in other digital devices such as camcorder, PSP (Play Station Portable), Phone.

Memory stick indeed brings much convenience to our daily life; it also brings us much trouble. If files on the memory stick are lost due to format, deletion, or memory stick damage, error or unreadable, we have to expend energy to recover data from it. This article highlights the method to recover formatted memory stick.

About Data Loss in Memory Stick

Sometimes if we connect a camera or a memory card with a computer, we cannot access the memory card and the tips tell us "card not formatted" or "This disk in drive H is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" as below picture. Some of us may follow the tips and format the memory stick. People who format the memory stick must be regretted about what he done before, because they will find there is nothing left when they access the memory stick. Precious photos are gone, important documents are gone, all data in the memory stick are gone.

If we formatted the memory stick like this, we will be trapped in data loss and have to search method to recover formatted memory stick, at this time, reformat is useless, and restore is useless unless you have backup the data in the formatted memory stick.

Guide to Recover Formatted Memory Stick

Accounting data loss in the formatted memory stick, some of us may feel helpless. Actually there are, in general, two methods to recover formatted memory stick, one is data recover service center, and another is data recovery software.

If we choose manual data recovery service center, not only we have to expend several days and hundred dollars to recover formatted memory stick, also we have to take the risk of failure to recover formatted memory stick. Therefore data recovery software is the best solution of formatted memory stick recovery.

It's also important for us to choose data recovery software. To recover formatted memory stick, we should choose professional formatted recovery software for the memory stick, but not deletion recovery software. Here EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard is highly recommended to recover files from formatted memory stick.

Data Recovery Wizard is an advanced and professional tool for us to recover lost data from memory stick, hard drive, external USB hard drive, SD card, digital camera, digital audio player, compact flash, hardware RAID, etc. no matter it is due to format, deletion, virus attack, files system failure or other unknown reasons. It supports Window 2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Steps to Recover Formatted Memory Stick

Once we find there is data loss in the memory stick, we should stop any operation which probably cause overwriting and launch formatted memory stick recovery software at the very first time. The faster we recover formatted memory stick, the more chances we can get the data recovered from memory stick. Following are steps.

Step A: Launch Data Recovery Wizard, and choose a module to recover data according to method of data loss. "Deleted File Recovery" is for deletion recovery, "Complete Recovery" is for format recovery and some other kind of data loss, and "Partition Recovery" is used when partition is lost or deleted. Here we choose the second module to recover formatted memory stick.

Step B: Choose the partition of the memory stick to start searching, and then we will see a list of volumes where data loss possibly happens. After that, Data Recovery Wizard will allow us to choose 6 volumes at best to restore. And then, press "NEXT" button, it will launch the "Building Directory" procedure to search the files. We will see file/folder tree very soon.

Step C: Choose and preview the lost data that we want to recover from the formatted memory stick and press the "Next" button. And then select a directory and press the "NEXT" button to save them.

After the easy three steps, I think all of us will be able to recover the formatted memory stick. Just free download demo version to scan and preview the memory stick and use the full version to safe recovered data if any of us are searching for method to recover formatted memory stick.

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