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1 Tb Seagate has No format error
Have you ever used the 1Tb Seagate external hard drive? Or have you ever found the external HDD unformatted error when use it? We would be prompted that disk is not formatted when try to open the drive. As a result, the external hard drive can not be opened and files saved on it at the previous time are inaccessible if it showed not formatted error. But do not worry, as we can try to get the original files back from the unformatted Seagate portable hard disk drive.
Example of 1Tb Seagate external hard disk drive showing not formatted error
I was told that my 1 Tb Seagate external hard drive is not formatted and I had to format it if I can use it normally. I totally had no idea what was going on at that time and all I knew was the portable hard disk was not able to be opened. So I could not view information stored on it previously. Files I intended to access are useful and important, so I needed to read them as soon as possible. Can you kindly tell me is there any way to access them? -Mina from New York
How to restore information from the unformatted Seagate external hard drive with data recovery software
It is possible to recover previous files from the Seagate external hard drive when it is in not formatted error, and then we may be able to access those contents normally. What we need to retrieve information is data recovery software. Here are the steps as follows to use the data recovery tool to restore data:
Recover data Seagate hard drive
Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Cases in which the Seagate portable hard drive not formatted
We can format the unformatted Seagate external hard drive after the files recovery. The reason that we do not format the problematic portable hard disk drive is to avoid the failure of data recovery. It means that we may fail to get information needed back from the portable external USB drive if we format it at first. Have you ever wanted to know that in which cases the external hard drive would show not formatted error? As a matter of fact, the situations are various, which mean that there are various cases in which we may meet the unformatted external hard disk drive. Here are some of them below:
1. The Seagate external hard drive was infected. One of the Seagate portable hard disk unformatted situations is the virus infection. Files saved on the external hard drive may contain harmful matters such as virus and worms or others and then they may attack the external hard drive and cause the data loss problem, and the not formatted case is one of the data loss problems after the virus infection.
2. The Seagate portable hard disk drive turned to raw file system. Have you ever heard of the raw file system? As a matter of fact, it is one kind of system error and we can not use the external hard drive normally if it was raw file system. What’s more, we can use it as long as format it and then convert it to ntfs or other normal file system. So we would be asked to format the external hard drive if it was raw file system.
3. The Seagate portable external USB was not formatted. Sometimes it is better for us to format the portable hard disk drive when there was no file or folder saved on it, such as the first time usage. Or we may be asked to format the external hard drive before we can use it after storing information on it
4. Other cases in which the Seagate external hard disk drive may become not formatted.
File types may be retrieved from external hard drive unformat
We may have known that we can save nearly all types of files on the Seagate external hard drive such as pictures, videos, movies, audios, work documents, excel files, and so on. What's more, we may still be able to retrieve all of them back from the unformatted portable hard drive with data recovery program.
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