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Raw Generic external hard drive which is not formatted
Would you format the Generic external hard drive when told it is not formatted? Disk is not formatted; do you want to format it now? We may be familiar with sentence above when use the portable hard drive. So we face the situation whether format the hard drive or not at that time. The external hard drive need to be formatted before we can use it because it is raw file system. How to recover data from the raw portable external usb? We can restore them at first if need and then format it.
Example of Generic external hard drive showing not formatted error
Have you ever used Generic external hard drive? I have one and it was into not formatted error days ago. It is still raw file system now, because I have no idea how to deal with such portable hard drive not formatted problem. The thing I am concerned most is that data saved on the external hard drive at the previous time, and I need to access them as soon as possible. But I don't know how to view files on the raw portable external usb at all. Any help here? -Dun from New York
How to recover information from the raw Generic external hard drive with data recovery software
In order to access files saved on the raw Generic external hard drive, we need to recover them firstly. The reason is that we can not open the portable hard drive when it is in not formatted error, as we all know, so we need to get those original files back before format the drive. What should we do is to use data recovery software to restore those contents. Here are the steps below:
Recover data from RAW external hard disk
Preparation: You can download and install the data recovery software on your computer after connecting the external hard disk. Then, you need to run the software and choose a recovery module.
Various data loss situations on Generic external hard drive
We may lose files on the Generics due to its raw file system which is not formatted, or lose information from portable hard drive because of other events. It means that there are more than one data loss situations we may meet when use the hard disk drive. How many of them do you know or how many of those situations have you ever met? It is necessary for us to get what they are though we may have not heard of them, because we may be able to avoid those terrible data loss matters if we know what they are. Here are some of them as follows:
1. Files saved on the external hard drive are deleted. We may delete files or folders stored on the portable hard drive by accident or by intention, or those contents are deleted by others accidentally. It is common for us to meet such data loss problem. But we do not need to worry too much, because we may have the chance to get those lost files back if they are not overwritten by new data with the help of data recovery tool.
2. The external hard drive is formatted. Sometimes we may format the portable hard drive because of some certain reasons. As it known to all, all files and folders saved on the external hard disk drive would be lost after the formatting. It is another common data loss cases that files lose from the external hard drive. Fortunately, we can also restore what we need from the formatted external hard disk drive.
3. The external hard drive is not formatted. We have discussed that we would lose original information saved on the portable hard drive when it is in not formatted error, because we can not open it before format it. but information on the external hard drive would be erased after the formatting, and we lose them, too. So what we should do is to retrieve needed data from the raw portable hard drive and then format it.
4. Other possible logical data loss cases that can be fixed by data recovery tool.
Other storage devices can be fixed when turn to raw by data recovery tool
Except from external hard drive, we also need to use other kind of storage devices to help us save files and folders. For example, we may pen drive, SD card, MMC card, CF card, memory stick, XD picture card, and others or hard disk on the computer. What if they become not formatted case? Can we get files back from them with the help of data recovery program? Yes, we can recover data from them when they are raw file system with data recovery too, too.
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