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Recovering data on Samsung external drive reports format disk in drive G: before you can use it
We may see such information on the computer screen that you need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it when try to open the external hard disk, such as the Samsung external hard drive. Is there anything we can do if contents saved on the portable hard disk drive at the previous time are meaningful? We may want to recover them sometimes. As a matter of fact, it is possible to get the files which lost off the external hard drive due to the format back from it.
Example of being asked to format the Samsung external hard drive
You need to format the disk in drive G: before you can use it. I was prompted by sentence above when I tried to open the Samsung external hard drive by double clicking its icon. I really did not know what I can do in the next step. I could choose format the problematic portable hard drive or not format it. Can you tell me what I should do if I want to access information stored on the portable external USB previously? Those contents are very important, indeed. Thank you. –Mindy from LA
How to recover files useful from the Samsung external hard drive with unformat error
We may be able to recover files needed from the Samsung external hard drive which shows unformat error, because we can ask data recovery software for help, which is a kind of tool to retrieve the lost files and read-only. So we can try to perform unformatted external hard drive recovery with it. Here are the steps in detail as follows:
Recover files from unformatted samsung external hard drive
Preparation: Plug the samsung external HDD to your computer and download the data recovery software. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Various reasons of the Samsung external hard drive shows not formatted error
The Samsung external hard drive may need to be formatted before we can use it normally when we try to open it, or when we read or write files saved on it previously, or when we connect it to the computer immediately, or at other time. The only way to use the questionable portable hard disk drive normally is to format it. And we have known that we can perform files recovery when external hard drive unformat before format it to get information useful back. But what the reasons of portable drive unformat are? Actually, the reasons are different and more than one. Here are some of them below:
1. The Samsung external hard drive becomes raw file system. If the system of portable hard disk drive is raw, we need to format it before we can use it normally.
2. The Samsung portable hard drive is infected by virus. Harmful matters such as virus and worms may be hidden in the contents which saved on the external hard drive sometimes and then infected the portable drive. One of the results of virus infection to portable hard disk is the external drive need to be formatted before we can use it. So we should be careful to pick up files to be stored on the external hard drive. By the way, files which contain virus or worms seem suspicious, generally speaking.
3. There are bad sectors in the Samsung portable external USB. Generally speaking, we would meet various problems after using the external hard disk drive a long time, and the most common problem is the hard disk bad sectors. And one of the expressions of hard disk bad sectors is the portable hard drive unformat error. The reasons of hard disk bad sectors are various, and what we can do is to use the external hard drive correctly to reduce the bad sectors situation.
4. Other reasons of the Samsung external hard disk drive showing not formatted problem.
File types can be retrieved from unformatted Samsung external drive
As it known to all of us, we can store various types of files on the Samsung external hard drive, such as image files, video files, audio files, word documents, power point files, and so forth. As the same, we may be able to restore all types of those files from the portable hard disk drive with data restoration tool if it shows unformat error.
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