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.

Hard Drive Not Formatted Error Messages

Cases on Hard Drive Not Formatted Error Message

Case 1: I keep getting the same error message whenever I want to access my hard drive partition. No matter I double click or right click on the partition to open it, Windows always pops up a message to say: you need to format disk in drive G before you can use it (G is the drive letter of this partition). There is no idea what is wrong, but I guess that my computer is infected with virus. So I ran an anti-virus software to scan the whole hard drive. However, I still cannot access the partition by saying the same error message.