Best utility to recover lost space from SD MMC memory card or removable media

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Do you have a removable media or mmc/sd card which does not give the maximum space to store data or music…. I had one such drive… which has a storage capacity of 4GB.. but for an unknown reason or may be because of a virus attack; its storage capacity been reduced to 600 mbs only. I have formatted it several times but none was for any use…

Though, in such a scenario most of us manage with only that available space or will hunt for a new one…

But before you purchase a new sd mmc card why not try HP format disk utility, if you are lucky, it may recover those hidden space. As my self also just tried this utility and with in seconds it has restored all the missing space. This utility is also capable of creating DOS bootable disk.

So get this application follow this download link and extract it.

Now double click on HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.exe and install it using the on screen setup instruction. This is not a very difficult process.

After the installation finishes out double click on the HP format disk tool from the desktop…if you are using Windows 7 in some system it may ask for administration permission saying:

Permission denied: Administrator rights required to run this tool.

Don’t worry right click on the tool and click on Run as Administrator and you will get the screen as shown below

Now choose your desired removable disk from the drop down menu and click on start… may be there are chances it may restore all your space.

Few days ago, I was in a bit strange situation as one of my 2 gbs pen drive shows the total capacity to only 500 mb space. And with in windows system properties almost half of the space about 260 mbs shows in use and around 220 mb of free space, while as I have said the actual space it should show about 1.9 gbs. Then at first I thought it may have been damaged but I was not sure when as everything was fine… means accessibility, reading, copying and even formatting, though only up to 500mbs is perfect then it must be because of any other reason and this derives me to search for format utility to do the job.

And I was lucky as after trying some utilities I found the HP Format disk utility which is quite good as it has restored all the space which the pen drive had missed. And this is not all this utility was even capable of creating a dos startup disk at the same time while formatting pen drive. This is sure the very good tiny application and is very useful as nowdays use of pen drives has increased very rapidly for data transfers between one PC to another PC making this utility into must have utility… If you also like to try it once … which i am sure then follow the download link at 4shared and make your pen drives works perfect…

Download HP Format Disk Utility

This utility can also be considered a must have Utility installed in a PC. May be right now you don’t need it, but am sure tomorrow you will sure need it as these days the use of Pen/Flash drives has increased very rapidly and who knows when we need such utility.

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