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unformat Silicon Power External Hard Drive

It may be hard to choose what to do when the external hard drive shows not formatted error, for example, the Silicon Power external hard drive. You need to format the disk in drive R: before you can use it. And do you want to format it now? What is the right choice, format the external hard drive or do not format it? What’s more, how to access files stored on the unformatted portable hard drive at the original time? Actually, we can recover those previous files firstly and then format the external hard drive.

Example of Silicon Power external hard drive unformat

I get into such trouble that the Silicon Power external hard drive needs to be formatted before I can use it. in my mind, I do not want to format the portable hard disk drive which is in unformat error, because there are a lot of files and folders important saved on the unformatted portable external usb. But I can not view them as the same if I do not format it, as I can not open the unformatted external hard drive before format it. It is so terrible to meet such situation. Is there any help? -Abel from Washington

How to restore data from the unformatted Silicon Power external hard drive with data recovery software

The solution of Silicon Power external hard drive unformat problem could be the following: we can restore what we need from the unformatted portable hard drive and then format it to use it normally. We need to ask data recovery tool for help so as to retrieve files needed. Here are the steps as follows of 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.

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Plug the unformatted Silicon Power external hard drive into the computer.
3Open the data recovery tool and then choose recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Pick up contents in the list after the scan to recover

Various problems related to the format case to Silicon Power external hard drive

It is common for us to encounter such case that the external hard drive shows not formatted problem when we use it, such as the Silicon Power external hard drive like example above. Have you ever met it? We have known that we can ask data recovery program for help in that case if we have to get lost files saved on the portable hard disk drive at the pervious time back. As a matter of fact, data recovery tool is also useful in other cases related to the format event. There are some of them below:

1. The Silicon Power external hard drive is formatted by mistake or by intention. We will lose files and folders on the portable hard disk drive if it is formatted, just as it known to all. If those lost files are important or useful and we have to access them, we can try to recover what we need from the formatted external hard drive. As restore data from the unformatted portable external usb, we can also ask data recovery tool for help to get lost contents back from the formatted external hard drive.

2. The Silicon Power external hard drive is reformatted accidentally or intentionally. We may reformat the formatted external hard drive in order to get lost information back or reformat it because of other reasons. Unfortunately, we can not retrieve what we need from the formatted portable hard disk by formatting it again. But we may still restore files wanted from the reformatted external hard drive with the help of data recovery software.

3. The Silicon Power external hard drive is raw. Have you ever heard that the external hard drive turn to raw file system? Actually, it is a kind of system error and we can not use portable hard disk drive with raw file system. What’s more, raw means not formatted, so we can use it normally after formatting the raw external hard drive like unformatted portable hard disk. As the same, we can recovery files form the raw portable hard disk with data restoration tool.

4. Other format cases to Silicon Power external hard drive. For example, the external hard drive can not be formatted.

File types we can recover with data recovery tool

We do not need to worry about which kind of files we can recover from the unformatted external hard drive with data recovery tool. Because we may able to restore nearly all types of files such as pictures, videos, audios, e-mails, word documents, movies, songs, and other file types from the external hard drive with unformat problem.

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