The flash drive is not formatted. What to do?

Flash cards in our time is one of the main attributes in the arsenal of every modern person. Remember the time when the shelves in the cabinets were bursting with a pile of dusty books, CDs, tapes and old albums with yellowed photos! In the modern world, everything is much more practical and convenient, all this heap of necessary things can be stored on a small flash card, which practically does not take up space - is placed in any pocket. Yes, of course, it's good, but here we can wait unforeseen situations. Sometimes, after plugging the USB flash drive into the computer, we see the screen of the monitor message that this disk drive needs to be formatted. What to do in this situation? It's one thing when an empty flash drive is not formatted - it's not so scary, because in this case you will not lose anything. But it's quite another matter when important information is on it, and the computer does not give anything other than the question "Format?" In any case, do not give up! After reading this article to the end, you will learn what to do in cases where the flash drive is not formatted and does not open. And to help us one of these useful utilities will come:

1. EasyRecovery.
2. Compact Flash.
3. Object Rescue Pro.
4. R-studio.
5. FlashNul.

The flash drive is not formatted. What to do?

First of all, we need to restore the data (if any), and only then proceed to the treatment of the flash card, i.e. Correction of errors. How to do this, we'll look at the example of the program R-studio.

1. Run the program, click on the "Drivers" menu. We will see a complete list of physical drives. To the right, if we click on one of the disks, we can see the list of "Properties". It reflects more complete information about the selected section.

2. Select the disk from which we will make an image, clicking on it with the left mouse button, and click "Create" - "Create image".

3. In the appeared window in the line "Image name" we write the path where we will save the image, and click "OK".

4. Disconnect the flash card from the PC and open the image that was just created. This can be done by clicking "Drive", and then "Open drive image".

5. The image is open, now click on it with the right button and select "Scan", in the appeared window again press "Scan". The program after the scan is completed, will give us the result - which files can be restored.

6. Go to the data recovery - click 2 times on "Recognized1" or "Extra found files". Here we mark those files that need to be restored.

7. Call the "File Recovery Marked" menu, click "Recovery Marked". In the "Output Folder" field, specify the path where the recovered data will be saved. We finish the action by clicking "OK".

Now if you have a situation where a flash drive is not formatted, you can easily find a way out. Remember: if suddenly after scanning the information in the program window a large number of red cubes will be displayed - do not rush to throw out the flash card! Try to restore the data with another program.

Why flash drive is not formatted?

This can be affected by many factors: the presence of viruses, a malfunction of the microprogram, or maybe even a memory wear. And yet you can format it - with the help of USBDeview, UsbIDCheck, CheckUDisk 5.0 or ChipGenius. These utilities will help you learn the controller model. And if it is known, then it will not be difficult to find a driver for the drive. Now you can easily reflash the USB flash drive and continue to use it. Of course, this method is not for everyone. Therefore, if you have never done this before, then you should not try, rather, entrust this matter to an experienced programmer. Well, now you know what to do if the flash drive is not formatted.