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"How to format unrecognized memory card on Mac? I can’t find my memory card on my Mac, so what’s happened? Is there any way to format the memory card and fix the ‘unrecognized’ issue." - Dogogd

How to Format Unrecognized Memory Card on Mac?

Many times the memory cards stop working to the point that the Mac can’t recognize them, which means that they are no longer useful and the time has come to discard them. Although, despite the fact that MacOS cannot recognize and list the memory card in the file manager, there are a variety of specialized programs that can detect it and even try to recover the information it contained, so it is highly convenient to format the memory card before discarding it so that no person can recover our personal data unscrupulously.

And in most cases, you just want to fix the issue and make the memory card be re-readable on your Mac. Formatting the unrecognized memory card on Mac is the easy way to fix your memory card. But, you need to a secure and quick way to format your unrecognized memory card on Mac.

The best way to format memory cards that Mac OS cannot recognize

DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac offers easy and reliable solution to format unrecognized memory card on Mac. It will quickly format the unrecognized memory card for your Mac, and permanently remove all errors and data on the memory card. It means once the memory card is formatted by DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac, you will get a brand new memory card.

Format the memory card that can not be recognized by the Mac system with DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac.

Step 1: Connect the inaccessible memory card to your Mac and then run DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac.

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Step 2: Select the option "Wipe Hard Drive", select the drive corresponding to the memory card connected to your Mac that can’t be recognized and then click on the "Wipe Now" button so that DoYourData Super Erase for Mac can format it correctly.

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DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac will remove all your personal and important information from the memory card that is not recognized by the Mac in a completely simple way so that when you get rid of it you should not worry that an unauthorized person can retrieve any information that you have had in the past no matter if the memory card cannot be recognized by MacOS.

After you format the memory card with DoYourData Super Eraser for Mac, you can reuse your memory card and the memory card can be recognized by your Mac or PC because all errors have been fixed. No any damage. Or you can sell, donate, discard or give away the memory card. All your history data on the memory card is gone forever.

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Written & Updated by Shirly Chen

Shirly Chen has been writing data recovery, data erasure articles for DoYourData over 4 years. She has been working as a professional website content writer & editor for quite a long time. She also writes articles about disk clone, Mac optimization, disk backup, etc.

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