Fix External Hard Drive Not Formatted Error

Recover External Hard Drive

Simple method to fix external hard drive not formatted error is to follow the error message to format the drive. However, what make the situation complicated is nobody can ensure data will not be deleted from the external hard drive after formatting. Therefore, it is imperative to recover files from external hard drive before format.

External drive recovery software is helpful software to recover files from external hard drive that has not formatted error. As you know, when an external hard drive is saying not formatted error, you will be denied to access the drive. However, external drive recovery software provides method to scan the external hard drive to search for inaccessible files.

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External Hard Drive Is Not Formatted, Want to Recover Data

"I have to face a problem with my external hard drive. When I connect it to my computer, I will always receive an error message: disk in drive is not formatted do you want to format it now. I am an architect, and I have saved many design drawings in the external hard drive. Should I format the external hard drive? How could I restore data from the external hard drive if I formatted it? Do I have any other way to access the external hard drive without formatting?"

"I am a photographer. Every time go holiday, I would like to take my digital camera and a memory card. In this way, I can insert the memory card to my digital camera to take pictures. When holiday is over, I will transfer all pictures from the memory card to my laptop to free the memory card so that I can use it to take more pictures in the next time. However, my laptop was broken last week and I transferred all the pictures to an external hard drive. Today, I connect the external hard drive to my new laptop, but it shows me not formatted error. How can I retrieve the pictures from the external hard drive which disables me to access it?"

Fixing Not Formatted Error on External Hard Drive

Formatting is the most effective method to fix not formatted error on an external hard drive. Therefore, when data is recovered, you can format the external hard drive on your computer. If Windows keeps saying formatting is not completed, you can try to format the external hard drive under "Disk Management". You can even try to use format tool to format the external hard drive. If the external hard drive is corrupted seriously, you had better no longer store important data to the drive in the future.

What makes hard drive data recovery solutions complicated is nobody can ensures data will not be deleted from external hard drive after formatting. Therefore, it is imperative to recover files from external hard drive first before formatting the external hard drive. Formatting is the most effective method to fix not formatted error on external hard drive. How can I retrieve files from external hard drive without formatting? It has become a quite serious problem that asked by many users.

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