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Unformat External SSD Disk
Have you ever met the external SSD disk problem, such as it shows unformat? Do you have any idea how to view files after formatting or unformatted external SSD disk as they are inaccessible at that time if you happen to met it? In other word, do you know how to get back those inaccessible files from the unformatted external SSD disk? There is a way to retrieve them, actually. Then you can view them on the computer. That way is to use data recovery software.
Case of external SSD disk showing unformat problem
I have saved a lot of files which are important and precious on my external SSD disk. But now I can not view any one of them, because the external SSD disk encounter unformat problem. System prompts me that the external SSD disk needs to be formatted before I can use it. What should I do? I know I will lose those files on the external SSD disk once I format it. Is there any other way to let me access that data but not format the external SSD disk? -Alex from New York
How to retrieve information from the external SSD disk which is not formatted with data recovery software
Those inaccessible files could be restored from the unformatted external SSD disk with the help of data recovery tool. What we should do to use the external SSD disk is to get back the lost data firstly and then format it after all needed files have been retrieved. The following steps will guide you how to restore information with data recovery program:
Recover data from external ssd disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the external ssd disk to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Way to protect data being lost from external SSD disk
It will trouble people a lot when meet an unformat external SSD disk if they have no idea how to get back those files, so does other data loss cases. As a result, it is important for them to know how to protect data from being lost when use the external SSD disk though there is opportunity to get those lost files back under the help of data recovery tool. Here are some tips as follows to show you how to avoid he disaster of losing information:
1. Back up the important files. It is a good habit that back up files vital and useful regularly. We can retrieve those files quickly and easily no matter what reason that leads to the data loss situations, such as deletion, formatting, unformatting, virus attacks and so forth. It is better to not back up them on the same storage devices but others.
2. Do not hurt the external SSD disk physically. It is hard to get back the lost information from the external SSD disk which has been damaged physically even with the help of data recovery or other professional engineers. So do not bend the external SSD disk, or burn the external SSD disk, or other actions that may result in physical corruption to external SSD disk.
3. Do not delete files or format the external disk casually. It is better to think twice before delete files or format the external SSD disk, especially there is no backup. Though data recovery software could get back those files simply which are lost because of logical reasons, we still should be careful to delete information from external SSD disk.
4. Other possible ways to protect data saved on the external SSD disk form being lost.
What is external SSD disk?
External SSD disk, whose full name is external solid state disk, is one kind of external hard disk. The external SSD disk is widely used to military affairs, video surveillance, internet surveillance, electric files and so on. Its function and way to use is as same as normal external hard disk and the size and appearance of external SSD disk is also similar with the normal one. We should buy it from the reliable sources in order to sue it smoothly. The popular brands of external SSD disk are SanDisk, Kingston, OCZ, PQI, WD, and Transcend and so on for store data.
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