XD cards are widely used by digital camera users across the globe. Needless to say, their durability and reliability have made them one of the favored memory cards. Before you start adding or storing images to it, it is required of you to format it. And, if you do not format an XD memory card in a correct way, you may land into deep trouble.

In event of improper formatting, a memory card can become corrupt and render images inaccessible. To overcome such data loss scenarios, you have to completely rely on a clean and updated backup copy. However, if you do not possess a backup copy or if it is not updated, you should opt for image recovery software. These tools can be downloaded from the Internet and used without much hassle.

Consider a scenario, wherein, you connect the XD card of your digital camera to a computer using a card reader, and attempt to view the images stored onto it. Instead, you receive the following error message:

“Disk is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?”

As a result of the above annoying error message, the images stored on an XD card becomes inaccessible. Moreover, the XD card becomes redundant as you cannot even store new images onto it.

Cause :

The root cause of the problem is memory card corruption. Incorrect formatting has led to this problem. You might have formatted this XD card in accordance with some other system.

Resolution :

In order to isolate the problem, you must re-format the XD card, followed by immediate image recovery. You can observe the following steps to format the XD card:

  • Right-click My Computer
  • Select Manage
  • Click Disk Management on the left pane of the window
  • Select the drive corresponding to XD card
  • Right-click it and format the memory card

Since formatting installs a new file system on the XD card, it deletes all the old entries. Therefore, in order to recover images from a formatted XD card, you have to grab a digital image recovery tool. Such third-party tools apply improved and sophisticated algorithms to recover images from a formatted memory card. Moreover, they do not even alter the original content.

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery is versatile software which recovers lost or deleted images and other multimedia files from various memory card and digital camera brands. This image recovery application, available for both Windows and Mac users, retrieve all image formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP etc.