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Unformat Seagate Hard Disk Drive

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When you want to open your Seagate hard disk drive, you are asked to format the drive? The Seagate hard disk drive not formatted error is a kind of common problems that we may meet in our daily life. Sometimes when we want to open the hard disk drives, there might be some problems, that is, if you want to open it ,there's a letter saying that you must format your hard disk drive, but if you press 'Format', there will be a letter saying that the hard disk drive is not formatted.

"I am very confused about how to resolve the unformatted errors. This evening I intended to put some articles on my Seagate hard disk drive, but it would not allow me to open it, and the dialog said 'Your hard disk drive is not formatted, do you want to do it now?'. I tried it few times but the result is still the same. Then I guess I only have to format it even there are many valuable data on it that I need. But after I press 'Format' the dialog came again. What is going on here? Does this mean my data have already lost? This is quite annoying! Is there any body can help me with it?"

Before we get to know how to deal with such situations let's discuss the reasons first instead for eradicate the problems completely.

Why the Seagate hard disk drive can not be formatted?

There are some common reasons causing the hard disk drives can not be formatted, which we should be careful to avoid.

1.The Seagate hard disk drive has been fragmented.

Here fragmented is the same meaning as damaged, it is very common to us now. However the usual reasons that the hard disk drives be damaged are virus infection and improper manipulations.

Firstly, virus infection is not only affect the hard drive it can put the whole computer operating system in danger, so we need to pay more attention on this part. Normally we can easily got virus, malware, spyware and Trojan horses from internet by download some data which are laced up with them. And transmitting them by insert the external hard disk drives into the sick computer etc.

As for improper manipulations, i personally view this bad habit as the movement which can influence the computer health more than virus infection. Because these habit can damage the structure of hard disk drives and pose data lose which is seriously terrible. Operating the computer under a inferior environments like there are drastic tremors or electromagnetic field exist, shutdown the computer suddenly, making the computer stay opened day and night or implement defrag too frequently. All the operations I mentioned above are harmful to hard disk drives working normally.

2. Other physical damages are existing on the Seagate hard disk drives or some setting issues have been wrongly processed by users. As the long time of using hard drives, the problems like bad sectors can occur, which could impact the whole hard drives a lot.

How can we solve the unformatted Seagate hard disk problem?

Of course you can take the hard disk drives to the computer service spot which is time-consuming and not frugal. Or you can ask data recovery software to help you out of such predicaments.

Data recovery softwares are able to retrieve your lost data as well as fix the unformatted Seagate hard disk drive for you. Initially they are specially designed by professionals to recover the lost data by its mighty scan function which can seek and bring back the data without any difficulties. And now some of them are capable to renovate the hard drives just like they can fix the raw drive.

Referring to data recovery, the emphasis is absolutely regarded down on tracking back the lost data. Then what kinds of data can data recovery softwares assist us find back? They are able to recover any files like music, videos, pictures, documents and so on. Additionally, they are good at retrieving data from almost any computer operating systems. They can deal with many types of files systems too. Also you don't have to worry about how to do this job because all you need to do is pressing the mouse which is simple to manipulate.

Note:

1.You might download an antivirus program to handle the virus attacking problems for you which is very important to the safety of your computer.

2.You might be attentive when you are operating the computer and do not let the wrong manipulations impair your hard drives.

3. You cannot format the hard disk drive before data recovery.

Recover Data When Seagate Hard Disk Is Unformatted

Are you unable to access your Seagate hard disk drive due to unformatted error? This kind of problem can be resolved by formatting the hard disk. However, you need to recover data from the disk first of all.

Recover data from unformatted disk

Preparation: Download and install the data recovery software. Then, run the software and go to a proper recovery module.

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