What would you do when asked to format the external hard drive before you can use it, such as Transcend external hard drive? It seems that it is not a good idea either format the unformatted portable hard disk or do not format it, because we can not view files on the external hard drive in both cases. What should be done can we access those original files after the portable hard disk drive become not formatted? Fortunately, we can try data recovery at that moment.
Is there anyone can help me? My Transcend external hard drive gets into not formatted trouble and becomes unusable. I know how to make it usable, that is to format the unformatted portable hard disk drive. But what I am concerned about is contents saved on the problematic external hard drive at the old time. I need to view and use them in recent time. How can I access those original files and folders when the external hard drive is in not formatted error? -Aaron
We can access files saved on the unformatted Transcend external hard drive at the original time as long as we can recover them successfully. The way to restore files needed is to try data recovery software. It may help us retrieve information from the unformatted portable hard drive. Here are its steps as follows:
Recover data from external hard disk
We can access files on the formatted portable hard disk drive after recovering them completely with the help of data recovery program. But what we should know is that we can not get the one hundred percent guarantee to restore information from the unformatted external hard drive even though under the help of data recovery tool. What we can do is not to reduce the chance to get what we need back from the unformatted external hard disk drive. Here are some tips as follows to guide us not to do something improperly:
1. Do not format the unformatted Transcend external hard drive at once. It is true that we can use the problematic external hard drive normally again after formatting it. But we should not format it immediately if there are files saved on the portable hard disk drive need to be restored. What’s more, we should recover what we need urgently from the unformatted portable hard drive disk with the help of data recovery tool and then format it. Or we may reduce the chance to restore files needed from the unformatted external hard drive.
2. Do not perform check disk operation. it is reasonable to check what is going wrong when find the external hard drive is in not formatted error, and most of us will choose to perform chkdsk action at that time. But it is risky to do so if we need to restore files form the unformatted external hard drive, because we may not be able to recover all we need in that case, no matter how many times we try. So we should retrieve information wanted at first.
3. Plug the unformatted Transcend external hard drive out of the computer. It is better to remove the unformatted external hard drive from the computer when it is in not formatted error if we have no idea how to solve this problem. Then we can surf on the internet to find way to recover files needed from the unformatted portable hard disk drive and connect the questionable external hard drive to the computer again after getting we can restore files with the help of data recovery tool.
4. Other tips when the external hard drive is in not formatted problem.
Have you ever used or seen other brands of external hard drive get into unformat trouble like Transcend portable hard drive? What I want to say is that we can also ask data recovery tool for help if other brands of external hard drive become not formatted to recover what we need. Here are some common brands of external hard drive below: WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so forth
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