You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it error

Hello everyone, so today I bring you one of the stupidest things I've ever done in my history with computers.

So, me and a couple of my friends were shooting a short film on a Canon camera and I am the one who usually does the montage. So, we shot the scenes and it was time to montage the scenes and edit them, as I usually do, I connected the SD card to my memory card reader and connected it to my PC. Everything was going well, I had access to the files, pictures, videos, everything. But, the videos were a bit heavy for my computer for an instance and my computer froze and so, stupid me pulled the card reader out to fix the freeze and it actually did fix the freeze. However, when I reconnected my card reader, instead of giving me the option to open the disk and browse my files, it showed me this:
"You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it.

Do you want to format it?

[Format the disk] [Cancel]"

And of course, as I do not want to lose ALL of the things we shot on the camera, I pressed cancel. And my SD card became something called RAW.

What I've done so far:

• Downloaded a bunch of file recovery softwares which were no good.
• Followed several guides of how to recover my files, which were also no good.
• Tried the chkdsk thingy, which was also no good.

I'm desperately seeking for help right now, I really can't afford to lose over an hour of shooting scenes.
I currently am entering the final year of High School in my country, which is really a big deal, I have many studying to be done and I don't have the time to reshoot ALL the scenes. Please, any help would be so, so, so much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Fist guess is that you lost the files by messing the allocation tables. The disk guru is Jumanji (https://www.sevenforums.com/members/jumanji.html) Ask for his help. Did you pulled the card reader out without Safety Remove Hardware permitting? Did you tried any un format software?

"Current version (ZAR X) supports digital photo recovery for the following file formats: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, CRW (Canon RAW data), MOV, AVI movie, WAV, CR2 (Canon CR2 RAW format), ORF (Olympus RAW format) and most of the digital camera models."

If you know that the digital image/Video format is one of the above then try Zero Assumption Recovery.

Digital image recovery - ZAR

Camera Compatibility List Camera Compatibility List for Free Photo Recovery

Background on Z-A Photo Recovery Background on Z-A Image Recovery

Digital Image Recovery module in ZAR is free.

If not successful, you can try Partition Recovery Wizard in MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition https://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html

Launch PartitionWizard, on the left Pane click on Partition Recovery Wizard > Next >Select your SD card > Next > Full Disk > Next > QuickScan > Next. Allow the quickscan to complete. At the end of the quickscan you will get a window showing all the found partitions . Post ascreenshot of it. After you have taken the screenshot click on Cancel button on that Window and close PW. You can run it again after getting further instructions from me. You may have to wait since it is already bedtime for me ( I am two and a half hours ahead of you) and I can see it only after another 10 hours.

Don't use recovery software all that's happened is the partition has gone you need specific partition recovery which can restore very quick

Megahertz07 said:

Fist guess is that you lost the files by messing the allocation tables. The disk guru is Jumanji (https://www.sevenforums.com/members/jumanji.html) Ask for his help. Did you pulled the card reader out without Safety Remove Hardware permitting? Did you tried any un format software?

Yes, unfortunately that's what I did, I pulled it out while it was frozen, without safely removing it. I have tried tons of unformatting and recovery softwares. However, none of them seemed to work for my case.

jumanji said:

"Current version (ZAR X) supports digital photo recovery for the following file formats: GIF, JPEG, TIFF, CRW (Canon RAW data), MOV, AVI movie, WAV, CR2 (Canon CR2 RAW format), ORF (Olympus RAW format) and most of the digital camera models."

If you know that the digital image/Video format is one of the above then try Zero Assumption Recovery.

Digital image recovery - ZAR

Camera Compatibility List Camera Compatibility List for Free Photo Recovery

Background on Z-A Photo Recovery Background on Z-A Image Recovery

Digital Image Recovery module in ZAR is free.

If not successful, you can try Partition Recovery Wizard in MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition https://www.partitionwizard.com/download.html

Launch PartitionWizard, on the left Pane click on Partition Recovery Wizard > Next >Select your SD card > Next > Full Disk > Next > QuickScan > Next. Allow the quickscan to complete. At the end of the quickscan you will get a window showing all the found partitions . Post ascreenshot of it. After you have taken the screenshot click on Cancel button on that Window and close PW. You can run it again after getting further instructions from me. You may have to wait since it is already bedtime for me ( I am two and a half hours ahead of you) and I can see it only after another 10 hours.

First of all, thank you VERY much for your precious time and for your reply. As far as I remember, I've tried the Minitool Partition Wizard and when it is supposed to show all found partitions, it instead showed nothing at all. So, what I did was giving the SD card to a friend of mine, to try it on a camera and on a laptop and surprisingly enough, it worked on both. Could it have been the memory card reader the faulty element here?

Glad you tried the card on another camera and laptop.( We always forget the interface and fear the worst :) .

Try a good SD Card with data on it in your card reader.If the SD Card is not read, throw away the card Reader and buy a new one.You may mark this thread as solved so that other people can take a lesson out of this - to first try the Card on another known to be good Card Reader/ laptop/ same model digicam.

jumanji said:

Glad you tried the card on another camera and laptop.( We always forget the interface and fear the worst :) .

Try a good SD Card with data on it in your card reader.If the SD Card is not read, throw away the card Reader and buy a new one.You may mark this thread as solved so that other people can take a lesson out of this - to first try the Card on another known to be good Card Reader/ laptop/ same model digicam.

As far as I am aware, I have another SD card lying around here or there, haha! I'll definitely give it a try.
Thank you very much for your time.