Digital Camera reformatting?

Question

I took a lot of pictures with my digital camera the other day and I was looking at the pictures on my camera before uploading them onto my computer, and everything was fine, but when I put the card from my camera into my laptop, it told me that I had to reformat the card, and that reformatting would erase all memory from the card, and obviously I don't really want to do that, so I put it into my camera to check it out again, and then my camera said that I need to reformat my card. So did I essentially just lose all of my pictures or can I recover them somehow?

Answer 1

There are ways to get the pics back.

I have never seen a message on a PC saying that the card needs to be formatted. But if you must reformat, so it in the camera. That way, you know that the camera can write picture files.