Mac OS X Computer Can Not Read Memory Stick

Data is the most important assets for professional as well as home computer users. You can store your significant data on various types of storage media, and removable storage media is one among them. Removable storage media, like Memory Stick Duo, has various advantages over internal storage media and they are very handy to move data from one system to another. Memory Stick Duo is a special storage media for pocket size devices.



The device is completely safe from physical data loss problems as it does not have any moving components. However, in some situations, this media may become inaccessible on your Mac computer. It leads to critical data loss and put you in need of Mac undelete software.



Below is a practical example that tells you how you can lose your valuable data from a memory stick on Mac machine. When you attempt to access your mission-critical data from Memory Stick Duo, you may face any of the following symptoms-



When you connect the memory stick to your Mac OS X computer, system can not recognize the stick and you encounter the below error message-



"The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"



You get three options on the error message window, which are- Eject, Ignore, and Initialize.



The memory stick can not be detected in any other device, like digital camera.



When you try to check integrity of the memory stick using Disk Utility, Repair Disk and Verify Disk options are shown as gray when you see the stick. Furthermore, memory stick appears as unformatted under the Partition tab.



Typically this problem occurs due to corruption to the memory stick. The stick is unusable and unreadable as the file system structure of the stick is damaged.



You can try the following solutions to perform data recovery Mac in such cases-



Format the memory stick using a valid file system, like HFS, HFS+, or HFS Wrapper file system. The Memory Stick Duo becomes reusable using this method.



The above method removes all the data from the disk and thus you need to restore database from backup for Mac undelete. The backup must be valid and updated for Mac undelete files.



If you can not recover your lost data using either of the above methods, you can perform drive recovery Mac using third-party applications. They ensure safe and easy recovery with read-only conduct and simple user interface.



Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery is an efficient tool to recover data from HFS, HFS+, HFSX, and HFS Wrapper file system volumes.