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Raw Transcend External Hard Drive not formatted
Transcend external hard drive gets into not formatted error? Have you ever heard of that? In other words, the portable hard disk not formatted means that it is raw file system. What should we do to a raw hard disk drive? It seems that we can not do any other things but to format it when the external hard drive is in raw file system. It makes sense, to some extent. But actually, we can get lost files back from the raw external hard drive is we need to.
Case of Transcend external hard drive becoming raw
I meet a difficult case now. My Transcend external hard drive turns to raw without any sign. I just doubt whether it is raw at the beginning when I can not open the portable hard drive, but when I check its disk properties, the file system is raw. What's more, both the used space and free space are 0 bytes. How unbelievable. Do you have any idea what should I do now, because I want to access files saved on that external hard drive at the previous time. Help me, please. –Wert from Washington
How to recover data from the Transcend external hard drive which is not formatted
We can restore the information from the Transcend external hard drive which is not formatted with the help of data recovery software. What we should pay attention to is that not format the raw external hard drive but to get the needed data back at first. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to recover them:
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.
Transcend external hard drive data loss problems related to format
It is obvious that we will lose files and folders saved on the Transcend external hard drive if it becomes not formatted. We can not open the portable hard drive if we do not format it, so we can not access its data. Files saved on it would be erased if we format the hard disk drive, so we also can not view its contents though we can open it after formatting. So it is terrible to meet such external hard drive not formatted problem, especially those original files are very useful. Actually, there are some other problems related format cases which may lead to data loss problem, too. Here are some of them below:
1. The external hard drive is formatted by accident or by intention. We would lose information saved on the portable hard drive if it is in not formatted error, but if it is formatted accidentally or intentionally, we would lose them, too. New data can be stored on the space which is stored those lost files after formatting. But there is still a chance for us to get those lost contents back from the formatted external hard drive if they have not been overwritten by new data.
2. The external hard drive is not formatted. Just like case above, if the external hard drive gets into not formatted problem, we can not access files saved on it at the previous time. What should we do is to format the hard disk drive if we want to use the external drive. But we should get the lost files at first if those original contents need to be recovered.
3. The external hard drive can not be formatted completely. We may also lose files though the formatting action is not finished when format the portable hard drive. It may because the windows can not complete the format or we quit the format action. No matter which situation, we can ask data recovery tool for help if we need to recover data from the hard disk drive which is not formatted completely.
4. Other related data loss problems to formatting case on external hard drive.
Common brands of external hard drive
Like Transcend, WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and other brands, are also the popular brands of portable external usb. When we buy the external hard drive, we should choose one with good quality and from a reliable source.
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