A formating memory stick

[clem58]

My granddaughter has vital course work for up and coming exams stored on a memory stick. Her laptop is asking her to format before use, is there any way she can retrieve her work.If so can you give me step by step instruction.

[Bulld0g]

I had this problem the other week. I put the stick in a different laptop and it read it first time. Try another pc, if that fails there is recovery software in the downloads section which will allow you to retrieve accidentally erased\formatted stuff. Might be worth a go if you can't read it in another pc

[clem58]

she will try it when she gets home,i'll let you know if it worked. Thanks

[clem58]

Any other suggestions that one failed.

[thebigman26]

yes put it in the computer and close the auto play saying format now go to computer and right click and then open it should say we recomend formating before conting just iggy that and contune without formating then she will be able to retreve her stuff hope this helps

[cunny]

sounds like its corrupted to me. If it is there wont be an easy way to recover data after a format. You could format and try recovering via a program. Is a actual pen, or adapter with a card (mini sd) If mini sd you could try a differant adapter