External Hard Disk Asking to Format It

Although tons of people are using external hard disk as a tool to reserve their files, not many of them can totally handle every situation that external hard disk would occur. Lately the highly inquired issue about formatting is frequently appeared on line, which implies people have very little knowledge about it.

"Around 30 minutes ago I put my external hard disk on the computer, after a while a window came asking me to format my external hard disk. I intended to choose 'no', but after I click the mouse the computer did not allow me to get into the drive. So of course I changed my mind and chose the other button. Things did not work out because later I found out that all my files are gone! This external hard disk drives me crazy, I really need the videos on it for my sister's wedding ceremony. Can anybody please help me out of this emergency?"

I can understand how this guy's feeling right now, frustrated, vexed, angry. Well, in order to solve the problem, we need to initially figure out why this situation happens and then we could make a choice to track the data back.

Why external hard disk asks to format it?

Mainly the external hard disk only makes this demand under two different conditions. First one is that the drive is intending to create new file system so that it needs to be cleaned once for ordering out space to user's new data. Another one is the drive has somehow been corrupted, so it can not been entered or the files on it can not be read.

1. External hard disk needs to be formatted

A. Choose to format it.

The users planed to format it as for more spaces to keep files.

B. Formatted it by mistake

a. The users have carelessly chosen the wrong button and formatted the external hard disk by mistake.

b. The users accidentally clicked "yes" when the dialog asking to format the external hard disk

2. Have to format the external hard disk due to corruption

Corruption is the failure of external hard disk, which indicates that the drive has been damaged and now it is not usable. There are few common reasons for corruption.

A. Virus infection

This is easy to understand, nowadays virus are attached with the files which are popular and attractive to people. So when you download the files the virus also laced up with them.

B. Bad sectors or partition errors

The former one means some parts of the external hard disk have been impaired; latter one tells you that drive partition has been wrongly divided.

C. Improper manipulations

It is very common to see that people sometimes do not operate computer in the right way, and if these movements happen too often then the hard drive would be vitiated. Thereby the infos on it absolutely would be vanished.

a. Unplug the external hard disk directly from computer while it was being used.

b. Abruptly shutdown the computer

The solution for formatted external hard disk

If your computer asks you to format you external hard disk, and if you already did it, you can retrieve your files by data recovery softwares. There are plenty of them on line, you just need to download it and launch it. Data recovery software has powerful scan engine which can scan your affected drive in minutes and bring your lost data back to your drive. The data recovery software enables you to recover data when external hard disk shows RAW file system due to unformatted error. And it was planed by professionals to cope with any kind of files and different Windows systems as well as Mac systems. The instruction is easy so you will readily find your data. This kind of software is currently widely applied and people are very impressive about its efficiency.

Note:

1. Do not enter anything on your external hard disk as soon as you realized it was formatted. Because it will be almost impossible to find your files back after you did so.

2. Please be careful and attentive when you are choosing hard drive to format.

3. Capture an antivirus program is necessary and you should inspect your computer regularly.