"Recently, I ran into a problem accessing my Seagate 160 GB External Hard Drive. Every time when I turn it on, Windows prompts that my external hard drive is not formatted and asks me if I want to format it. It's really annoying! Sould I formatted it? Will I lost data after formatting?"
Every floppy and hard disk needs to be formatted to prepare the media for use with a particular file system. In this case, this error usually happens when your disk hasn't been prepared for use with your OS or it has been damaged and the data can no longer be read. Under this scenario, you have no choice, but format it. Format just creates a new file system area saying that there is data on the disc whereas your data is still actually there. Here are two ways for you to safely recover data when external hard drive formatted error happens.
How to deal with External Hard Drive Not Formatted Error?
Way 1: Recover data with external hard drive owns tool or windows chkdsk function
You should scan the Seagate hard drive for viruses and then go back to that site and READ the manual. Now you are ready to diagnose what has gone wrong, and probably FIX it using the tools.
It is possible to recover in most situations using nothing more than the drives own tools, and windows chkdsk function, but you need to know the drive letter to do so. First you need to go to computer management. The information you want is very simple: What is the drive letter. Make sure that you do not write any data to the disc or recover your data to the same disc as it may overwrite your data you are recovering
Way 2: Recover lost formatted data with professional hard drive data recovery
website: http://www.hdatarecovery.com/
Recuva do a free one but only recover a limited amount of data. So H-Data Recovery Master, which can retrieve more than 350+ filetypes will do much more help. It is an outstanding data retrieval tool that is specially designed to regain lost or erased data from Seagate Expansion 150GB, 500GB external hard drive. In addition to this, it also recovers data from internal hard drives of Windows computer and other portable storage devices. The application can quickly retrieve data from FAT, NTFS and extFAT drives present on physical hard drives.
Steps to retrieve data from Seagate 160GB External Hard Drive
Step1: Connet logical damaged hard disk to Computer
Connect the external hard disk to your computer and run the software on Windows OS. (Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP...). You can connect the broken / damaged internal hard drive externally on a workable Windows system (via USB hard drive adapter)
Step2: Select the proper recovery option to begain data recovery.
Step3: Scan deleted files or lost data on formatted crashed not recognized external hard drive
After you select the "USB disk/Card recovery", press "Next" to start scanning for recoverable photos, videos, and music files.
Step4: Select and recover lost hard disk data
After the program finish scanning all files, you can preview the files you wanted. Then mark the files you need. Click the “Recover” button to recover deleted data on htc one.
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