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Raw Samsung External Hard Drive not formatted

Have you ever seen information that you need to format the external hard disk before you can use it when use the Samsung external hard drive? It means that the portable hard disk drive is raw file system and can not be used until being formatted. Maybe you will ask what should we do if there are files important saved on the external hard drive. Actually, we do not need to worry about it, because there is a chance for us to recover data from raw external hard drive.

Case of Samsung external hard drive turning to raw

What should I do guys? My Samsung external hard drive can not be used and I am asked to format it before I can use it normally. How can I format it when there are massive files vital and crucial saved on the portable hard drive? So I know the portable external usb need to be formatted before I can use it, but I choose not to format it. Is there any way for me to access those contents saved on the external hard drive at the previous time. Help me, please and thank you. –Bruit from New York

How to recover data from the Samsung external hard drive not formatted with data recovery software

How to grasp the chance to recover data from the raw Samsung external hard drive? What we can do is to ask data recovery software for help. It may help us get what we need from the portable hard disk drive which need to be formatted before can be used. The following steps can let us know more detail information:

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.

1Download the data recovery software and launch it on the computer.
2Insert the external hard drive which is in not formatted error to the same computer.
3Operate the data restoration tool and we can choose one recovery model and target disk to scan.
4There will be displayed files after the scan, we can preview them and pick up the useful files to recover.

Notice should be took of when recovering data from raw Samsung external hard drive

We may be able to get files back from the raw external hard drive, and we may not be able to recover what we want from it. Is there any thing we can do to increase the chance to restore information from the portable hard disk drive which is in not formatted error? As a matter of fact, it is true that we may lose the opportunity to restore files from the raw portable hard drive if we do something wrong. So we should take notice of something when getting the data from the raw external hard drive. Here are some of them as follows:

1. Do not check the raw external hard drive. We may have a check to the external hard drive when it turns to raw file system in order to know what is going wrong. For example, we may perform chkdsk on the raw portable hard drive. What we should pay attention to is that it is better not to perform any operation on the external hard drive when it is in not formatted error. Or we may lose the chance to retrieve the needed files and folders from the raw external hard drive.

2. Do not format the raw external hard drive. We have talked that we would be asked to format the external hard drive before we can use it if the portable hard drive becomes raw file system. We can format the external hard drive at that moment if there is no information useful or vital saved on the external hard drive at the previous time. But we should recover the original data at first with data recovery tool if we have to use that information.

3. Remove the raw external hard drive from computer. It is better to plug the external hard drive which is in not formatted error out of computer if we have no idea how to deal with it. as we have talked, we should not perform chkdsk or any other operation on the external hard drive if have to restore files from it when it turns to raw file system in order to recover what we need completely and successfully. There may something goes wrong if the external hard drive keep connecting to the computer.

4. Other cautions in order to retrieve all we need from the raw external hard drive.

Popular brands of external hard drive

WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA and others are common brands of external hard disk drive, like Samsung. We can buy one form them with reliable quality. What's more, no matter which brand the portable hard drive is, we can ask data recovery tool for help when it is in not formatted error.

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