Complete guidelines to fix “disk not formatted “ error

CF card or Compact Flash card are the widely used memory card that is used by professional photographers as well as general users to store their photos and Video files on it. But in many of the situations if these cards are not properly formatted or when the formatting of the card is not done in accordance with the memory card that may lead to several error messages and corruption of the card that may result in serious data loss situations. One of such error is “Disk not formatted” error that may can lead to data loss situations.

Take a weird scenario in which you have clicked may images and all the images get stored in the compact flash memory card used in the card. But when you tried to access the images files than an error prompts saying :

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

The error results in a situation when you are completely unable to access the images stored on the CF memory card.

Cause:

The main possible reason for the “Disk not formatted”error is that the memory card is not formatted correctly. Generally we format the memory card in the computer system in this situation it may happen that the card is formatted in accordance with the one operating system and tjus can not be used in other operating system.

Resolution:

To solve the error you need to reformat the memory card in accordance with the system. In the case if you are using Windows based operating system than you can format your memory card using “Disk Management” by following steps:

• Go to “My Computer” and right click on it.
• Choose the “ Manage” Option.
• Under storage, click on “Disk Management” on the left side.
• Choose the drive which needs to be formatted.
• Now click on Format.
• You will get an warning message that Do you want to format your drive. Click on “yes”.

Formatting the card will resolve Fix Disk not formatted error but reformatting the card will delete all the previously stored data from the card. In this case Memory card recovery software will help you to restore lost data from memory card.