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Unformatted External Hard Disk Drive

Have you ever used an external hard disk drive? If you have you must be very familiar with its advantages. External hard disk drives are frequently applied by people because they are portable and much safer than USB flash drives. Also they have a lot of choices of brands, sizes, the categories of connectors which could partially decide the speed of delivering data and so on. People are readily using them to store their important data as backups, since nobody wants to put himself to an awkward circumstance that loosing their crucial information. While there is no fully perfect object in the world, occasionally the external hard disk drive would display their flaws as well. They are also not immune to corruptions, as a result, they might not allow you to get entry. So maybe you know that the sign of the failure is like "Disk is not formatted, do you format it now?" and etc. And of course this is rather frustrated.

"I reckon that my external hard disk drive finally gave in this afternoon, and after 2 years usage it helped me a lot about data reserve. The computer popped up a dialog said that my external hard drive is unformatted and demand me to format it, of course I did. Now all my data on it are gone. I want to know that is there any chance that I can track them back?"

"How can we deal with this situation? Do not worry about it, there is another way to restore your data apart from carry your external hard drive to a computer repair store. I would like to introduce the drive unformatted software to you.

What is the function of drive unformatted software?

The drive unformatted softwares are pointed to those unformatted disk drives, and they aim to find all your data back. They look for your data which was supposed on your external disk drive by scanning it and by the end of procedure your data should be already back on the drive. Besides, this sort of software is able to cope with all kinds of windows systems so that you will not have difficulties to recover data on any patterns of windows application program (Windows 7, Vista and etc.) From the perspective of data itself, the softwares are capable to restore various types of files.(music, movies photos, word document and so on.) Thus, drive unformatted softwares have gained a great deal of compliment and recognition from the customers because of its high efficiency.

The usual causes of unformatted drive errors:

1. Virus attack:

This is one of the major reasons why your external hard drive would be corrupted and pose inaccessible as well as data loss. The viruses could come from many ways: the data you download from internet which was attached with viruses and then you put the data on your external hard drive; other equipments carry viruses like USB flash drive or memory card and you get viruses by connecting external hard drive to computer.

2.Improper operations:

Unappropriate actions also can bring troubles to external hard drive, for example, drawing off the external hard drive directly from computer when is still being used. It is easy to make the external hard drive impaired, also the data on it might get affected too, thus you can not open and use it anymore. The same to another wrong operation, suddenly reboot the system, this would explain why the external hard drive gets damage either, also the this drive is more tend to be corrupted and next time when you use it the unformatted errors could appear.

Other knowledge you might want to know:

1. Before you use the drive unformatted software to retrieve your data, you should not input any new information on your impaired external hard drive. Because the data that you have lost virtually are still on this drive, the computer just marked it as blank space for your new data. Therefore if you put something new on it, the old ones are now really gone. This is also the point why the software can help you find them back.

2. In order to avoid this situation happens again, you really should follow the rules of computer manipulation, because it is certain that the wrong movements could cause damages to the whole computer as well as to those devices involving with it.

3. When an external hard disk shows unformatted error, it may change its file system to RAW. You don't need to worry because you can convert the RAW drive back to NTFS or FAT32 easily by formatting. However, you should remember that you should format the external hard disk when all data has been restored completely.

Recover Data from Unformatted External Hard Disk

The good solution to recover data from an unformatted external hard disk is to use the data recovery software. With the data recovery software, you can recover all kinds of data even if the external hard disk becomes inaccessible due to unformatted error.

Recover data from unformatted external hard disk

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Connect the external hard disk to your PC. Run the software and let it scan the disk for lost files.

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