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Unformat LaCie External Hard Drive

Have you ever heard LaCie external hard drive unformat problem? We can not use the external hard drive if it is in not formatted trouble. As a result, we can not either view files saved on it at the previous time or store new information on it. What should we do if we need to access those original files? Maybe we can view them again if we can get them back. Do you know how to get files back from the unformatted portable hdr disk drive? How to solve portable external usb problem?

Case of LaCie external hard drive showing unformat error

My sister told me that her LaCie external hard drive becomes not formatted. Actually, I did not know what it means. My sister explained to me that we can not use the portable hard disk drive if it is in not formatted situation later. Then I got that we can not access contents stored on the external hard drive at the old time or save new information on the external hard drive. Is there any way for us to access those original files again if they are important? Anyone know the answer? -Brant from LA

How to recover files from the unformatted LaCie external hard drive with data recovery software

Do you know data recovery software, which may help us get what we need back from the unformatted external hard drive? So we can ask data recovery tool for help if we need to view files on the portable hard disk drive when it is in not formatted problem? Here are the steps as follows to show us how to perform data recovery:

Recover data from 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.

1Plug the unformatted external hard drive to the computer.
2Download and mount data recovery software on the computer.
3Run the data restoration program on the computer and choose recovery model.
4Wait a while to the end of the scanning, we can pick up the files needed from the contents in the list.

Various data loss problems to LaCie external hard drive

You may have lost files from the LaCie external hard drive due to other reasons besides the portable hard disk drive turn to not formatted situation. Yes, it is true that we may encounter other data loss cases when use the external hard drive in daily life. What are they, do you have any idea? As a matter of fact, the situations of data loss are various. We may lose information saved on the external hard drive originally by mistake or by intention. The following cases are some data loss problems we may meet:

1. Files and folders saved on the external hard drive are deleted accidentally or intentionally. We may delete the data on the portable hard drive by intention or just by clicking on the delete or delete all button accidentally. No matter which kind of situations, we would lose those chose contents. But we do not need to worry too much, because we have the chance to get them back with the help of data recovery software.

2. The external hard drive is formatted by error or by intention. We may format the external hard drive so as to against virus infection or in order to delete all files saved on the portable hard disk drive quickly or due to other possible reasons. By the way, we may be format the external hard drive by mistake. it is known to all that we will lose files after formatting the external hard drive. But we can also perform data recovery on formatted external hard drive to restore lost information.

3. Computer operating system error. There is another situation that we may lose information saved on the external hard drive. For example, the computer operating system goes wrong when the external hard drive connect to the computer. We may not lose them of we can access them on other computers. We also may not lose them though we can not view them on other computer, because we can recover them with data recovery software.

4. Other data loss situations, such as virus infection.

Storage deices may appear unformat problem

Besides external hard drive, we also may meet unformat problem when use other storage devices, such as memory card (including SD card, mini SD card, micro SD card, SDHC card, SDXC card, MMC card, memory stick, XD picture card, and so on), USB stick, hard disk, etc. fortunately, we may be able to get the losses back with the data recovery tool, too.

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