How to recover formatted CF card?

CF card (Compact Flash Card) is a popular flash digital memory card often used in digital cameras with capacities ranging from 128 MB to 4GB.

Accidently formatting your CF card will result in your valued photos and other files disappeared. When trying to plug in the camera CF compact flash card onto your computer, sometimes, the computer just cannot read it and will notice "The drive in disk * is not formatted, do you want to format it now?".

Then the CF card will be noticed as RAW file system in your computer and you do fail to access it. Oups, the photos and files got lost once you confirm the formatting. Do not worry. Photos of your formatted CF card are still there if no inappropriate operations have been done, like overwriting the data lost area. EaseUS Data Recovery software is specialized in data recovery out of numerous reasons, helping thousands of customers suffering data loss.

How to recover data from formatted CF card?

Step 1: Download EaseUS Data Recovery Software.

Step 2: Install and run EaseUS Data Recovery Software. And you will see a screen with three options of data recovery. Go to Complete Recovery.

Step 3: Specify certain file types to search if you're clear about what stored in the CF card.

Step 4: Select the drive which was formatted (mostly recognized as an external drive) and then click "NEXT" to search.

Step 5: Find the information you want to recover in the result page and be free to click "NEXT" to save your lost data.

Besides format recovery, EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free is also very helpful when recovering deleted files, files lost due to partition deletion, RAW drive, files in unreadable drive, files inaccessible due to corrupted MBR, file lost due to software malfunction, wrong performed PC etc.

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