It is annoying a lot when the external hard drive, such as Memorex external hard drive turn to unformat situation. Do you know why it is annoying? You would get it if the portable hard disk is unusable before being formatted when we use it, and such situation shows that the external hard drive is in not formatted error. It is true that we can use it normally after formatting the portable hard disk drive. But do you want to access files saved on the unformatted external hard drive again? Actually, we can achieve it.
My sister gave me an external hard drive last week and she told me I can store files on it. Days later, she asked me t send some files to her from her portable hard disk drive. Strangely, when I connect the external hard drive to the computer and try to open it, system shows disk is not formatted, and do you want to format it now information. Is it an unformatted external hard drive? How can my sister access files saved on it the previously? By the way, the external hard drive was from Memorex. –Lu from LA
It is also true that we may be able to access information stored on the Memorex external hard drive at the previous time when it is in not formatted trouble. What we need to do is to recover them from the unformatted portable hard drive. Data recovery software is helpful in this case. Here are the steps as follows:
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
It seems that it is not a big deal to meet an unformatted Memorex external hard drive even though there are a lot of files important or precious stored on it at the old time. The reason is that we may be able to get what we need back from the unformatted portable hard disk drive with the help of data recovery tool. But unfortunately, there are more than one problems we may encounter when use the external hard drive. Is the data recovery program useful, either? Actually, it may help us in many cases. Here are some of them below:
1. The external hard drive is raw file system. Like external hard drive not formatted problem, we can not use the portable hard disk drive when it is in raw error. By the way, raw means not formatted. So we can call the unformat and raw as the same problem, to some extent. As the same, we may perform data recovery on raw external hard drive as unformatted portable hard drive to retrieve original information saved on it.
2. The external hard drive is formatted by mistake or by intention. There would be nothing remain after formatting the external hard drive. So it is one of data loss problems we may meet when use the external hard drive. What if we need to view data stored on the portable hard disk drive at the original time? Don’t worry, because we can also ask data recovery tool for help.
3. The external hard drive is infected by virus. Other problems we may encounter when use the external hard drive is virus infection. We may lose files or folders saved on the portable hard drive when it is infected by virus and worms. The harmful matters such as virus and worms are contained on the files which saved on the external hard drive. We may restore lost information with data recovery tool, too.
4. Other problems logically we may meet when use the external hard drive and can be solved by data recovery program.
We may restore pictures, movies and other video files, songs and other audio files, word documents, excel documents, and other file types with the help of data recovery software from the unformatted external hard drive, because nearly all file types are supported by data recovery tool.