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Raw Sony External Hard Drive not formatted

Sony external hard drive may turn to raw file system when we use it sometimes. Have you ever encountered the similar problem? You would be told that the portable hard drive is not formatted and be asked to format it before you can use it if meet the raw portable hard drive. Then what should we do when the portable external usb become raw file system if we need to view files saved on it at the previous time? In fact, we can recover them with the help of data recovery software.

Case of Sony external hard drive becoming raw

I was asked to format the Sony external hard drive, because it turned to raw file system. I had no idea what to do at that time. Days later, I still do not know whether should I format the raw portable hard drive or not now. I need to access files saved on it because they are vital and crucial, what's more, they are the one and only. I know I would lose them after formatting the problematic external hard drive, but I still can not access them if do not format it. Is there any other ways? -Allan from Utah

How to recover data from the Sony external hard drive not formatted with data recovery software

We may be able to recover needed files from the raw external hard drive which is not formatted with the help of data recovery tool, and we can access them normally after the recovery. What's more, it is not difficult for us perform raw data recovery. The following steps will let us know better how to restore the needed information:

Recover data from RAW 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.

1Insert the raw external hard drive to the computer..
2Download and launch the data recovery software on the computer .
3Open the data recovery tool and then choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and we can pick up the needed to recover.

Attention should be paid when Sony external hard drive turn to raw

It is important for us to get lost files back when the external hard drive is in not formatted error if those files are useful and unique. Do you how we can recover what we need from the raw portable hard drive successfully with the help of data recovery software? Actually, there are something need our attention when find the external hard drive become raw file system. If we do something wrong at that time, we may lose the chance to restore the lost information from the not formatted portable external usb. Here are some cautions as follows:

1. Do not format the raw external hard drive immediately. We would be prompted that you need to format the disk in drive R before you can use it, and we also would be asked that do you want to format it now. If we need to get information back from the raw external hard drive, we should not format it right now. What we should do is to recover data at first and then format the problematic external drive, or we may not be able to get what we want back.

2. Do not perform chkdsk operation on the raw external hard drive. We may start chkdsk to the portable hard drive when find it is in not formatted error to get what is going wrong with it. Actually, if we perform chkdsk operation on the raw portable external usb, files saved on it at the previous time may be damaged at the second and can not be restored any more. So we should not do such things to the external hard drive when it needs to be formatted before we can use it but to retrieve needed data with data recovery software.

3. It is better to plug the raw external hard drive out of computer. If we have no idea how to deal with the portable hard drive when it is in not formatted error, we should better remove it from the computer safely. If we keep connecting the questionable external hard drive to the computer, it may be damaged again and result the failure to recover data when we use the computer without consciousness.

4. Other improper operations should be avoided. Actually, except from data recovery, we should not perform any operation on the raw portable hard drive.

Popular brands of external hard drive

Sony is one of the popular brands of external hard drive, and besides it, there are some other common brands of portable hard drive, too. For example, they are WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Memorex, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so on.

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