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Unformat Samsung External Hard Drive
We should not format the external hard drive at once when it shows unformat error, such as Samsung external hard drive. But it doesn’t matter if files saved on the unformatted portable hard disk drive previously are useless. The reason why we should not format the problematic immediately is that we can recover more information needed from it. Yes, we may be able to get files useful back from the unformatted portable hard disk with data recovery tool.
Case of Samsung external hard drive showing unformat
I was so confused to be asked to format the Samsung external hard drive before I can use it. But I did not choose to format it, because I had no idea what is going on. And then I tried to open the external hard drive again, but situation not changed and I still need to format it at first. I can not format the portable hard disk drive because there are contents vital on it. What is the solution to portable external usb unformat problem? Will I lose all files saved on the unformatted external hard drive? -Joe from LA
How to restore files from the unformatted Samsung external hard drive with data recovery software
What we can do to view files saved on the unformatted Samsung external hard drive is to recover them. We can start to restore those contents needed with data recovery tool. What's more, the following steps can help us know how to restore information from the portable hard drive with unformat error with data recovery program:
Recover data from external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install the data recovery software to your computer. Then, you need to plug the external hard disk to the computer. Finally, launch the software and select a recovery module.
Attention should be paid to while performing data recovery
Do you know how to get more information useful from the unformatted Samsung external hard drive with the help of data recovery software? As the same, we may lose the opportunity to restore data from the portable hard disk drive when it is in not format trouble. What those actions which cause the failure to data recovery are? How can we get as many contents as we want from the unformatted external hard disk drive with data recovery program? Don't worry, as here ate some tips we should pay attention to as follows:
1. Do not format the problematic Samsung external hard drive at once. Just as what we have discussed, we should not format the portable hard disk when asked to format it before we can use it, because we may not be able to get files useful or important back later. We can recover data from both unformatted external hard drive and formatted external hard drive. But is we meet an unformatted portable hard disk, there is a bigger chance for us to perform data recovery when it is still not format situation than formatting it.
2. Do not select the unformatted Samsung external hard drive as the location to save data recovery tool or files to be recovered. We will be asked to choose the location to store data recovery program when install it and the location to store data to be retrieved. We should pick up one of the computer hard disk drives as the location to save them in that case.
3. Do not keep using the questionable Samsung external hard drive. It is better not to use the external hard drive when it is in unformat trouble until files important stored on it at the old time have been got back in order to retrieve as much as files we need. The reason is that there may be other corruption problem to the unformatted portable hard drive.
4. Other tips when restoring files from the unformatted external hard drive with data recovery tool.
Common brands of external hard drive
External hard drive is useful for us, so there are more than one manufactures which produce and sell it in the market. For example, Samsung, WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so on, all of them are common brands of external hard disk. We can perform data recovery on them if they become unformat.
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