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Reformat external hard drive recovery
Have you ever met such problem that files saved on the external hard drive are not recognizable when the portable drive connected to the computer? What's more, the computer operation system may show the message that we need to reformat the drive before we can use it normally. As a result, we can not see files or folders saved on the external drive at the previously. What we can do in that case? As a matter of fact, we can try to perform not recognizable external hard drive recovery at first.
Case of external hard drive need to be reformatted
My external Hard Drive was not recognizable has messages that I needed to reformat the drive when I inserted it to the computer intended to access data saved on it. I did not format the portable hard disk drive at that time, because I had no idea what was going on. I know the external hard disk drive need to be reformatted before I can use it normally now, but I still have no idea how to read files and folders on the external hard drive originally. Can we view them normally again? Help me, please. –Yu from LA
How to recover data from the external hard drive which need to be formatted before we can use it
We can try to perform files recovery when portable hard drive not recognizable to access those contents again though we are asked to reformat it before we can open it normally. We can format the problematic external hard drive after the data recovery. Here are the steps to retrieve files form the unformatted external drive with adapt recovery software:
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Preparation: Download the data recovery software and connect the external hard drive. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Various situations that the data on the portable hard drive is inaccessible
It is annoying that files or folders saved on the portable hard disk drive originally become inaccessible if those contents are useful. Generally speaking, we can ask data recovery software for help to access those previous files again if they are inaccessible due to logical reasons. There are various situations that the information on the external hard drive turns to inaccessible when we use it in daily life. Then in which cases we can perform files recovery to get the lost data back? Actually, there are some of them below:
1. The external hard drive turns to raw file system. As the portable hard disk drive is not recognizable when plugged into the computer case, we also would be asked to format the external hard drive before we can use it if the portable external USB become raw file system. What’s more, one of the reasons that external hard drive is not recognizable and need to be reformatted is the raw file system error. Fortunately, we can ask data recovery program for help in that case.
2. The portable hard disk drive is formatted. There would be nothing on the external hard drive after the format, so files and folders saved on it at the previous time become inaccessible at that time. The portable hard drive may be formatted by accident or by intention in daily life. But please do not worry, because we can try to recover the lost files with data recovery tool to see them again.
3. The external hard disk drive is infected by virus. One of the results of virus infection to external hard drive is the whole information stored on it become messy codes after that, so they are inaccessible and we need to recover them to normal at first. What’s more, if the external hard drive turns to raw file system, we can not access its original data, either.
4. Other situations that files or folders saved on the portable hard drive are inaccessible.
Brands of external hard drive are supported by data recovery tool when unformat
There are various brands of external hard drive in the market such as WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so on. We can perform files recovery when portable external USB not formatted to access their original files with data recovery program if need.
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