Guide to recover formatted memory stick

This guide will teach you how to recover formatted memory stick so that you won't 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 to 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 great efforts to recover data from it. This article will give you an labor-saving method to solve your problem.

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 back up the data in the formatted memory stick.

Guide to recover formatted memory stick

We may feel helpless when data were gone. Actually there are, in general, two methods to recover formatted memory stick, one is data recover service center, and another is data recovery software.

Manual data recovery service center not only costs so much time to find a trustable one but also demands hundreds of dollars to recover formatted memory stick. And we may also have to take the risk of damaging the formatted memory stick. Therefore, data recovery software is the best solution of formatted memory stick recovery.

It's also important for us to choose the right 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 card, hard drive, external USB hard drive, SD card, digital camera, digital audio player and so on. No matter it is due to format, deletion, virus attack, files system failure or other unknown reasons, this easy recovery software will get your data back with Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7 supported.

Steps to recover formatted memory stick

Once data in memory stick were gone, we should stop doing any operation in this memory card, which probably cause overwriting and launch formatted memory stick recovery software at the very first time. Just free download trial version and follow the below steps you will see whether it can retrieve your data or not.

Step A: Launch Data Recovery Wizard, and choose a module to recover data according to cause 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: At the second step, you can choose certain types of files to search or just search all types.

Step C: Choose the partition of the memory stick to start searching.

Step D: For certain types of files, you can preview them. Just find the one you want to recover and then select a directory to save them.

If you are seeking for Mac data recovery software, please go to see EaseUS Mac Data Recovery Wizard.

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