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Pen Drive Not Formatting

You need to format the disk before you can use it. Do you want to format it? Are you familiar with this sentence? After seeing this, one situation is to click the format disk button, and your pen drive could be used normally. Consequently, data saved on it has been lost. But what should you do when you encounter the other situation, the system prompt you that your disk can not be formatted, which lead to nothing you can view in your pen drive? Do not worry; the data recovery software could help you restore your data on the pen drive.

Case of pen drive not formatting

I am used to saving my important data on my pen drive, the reason is that it is convenient and safe for me. What's more, I never have a backup for all my files. But now, when I insert my pen drive into the computer, it says that your disk can not be formatted. What happened to it? I can't read anything on it. It just is gone without any reason. I can not lost the data on the pen drive, is there any solution? What can I do to retrieve my important files? Please help me. –Dane from the North Ireland

How to deal with not formatted pen drive

When meeting the pen drive not formatting error, the first thing you should consider is recovering your lost data, not to how to format it. So you need the help of data recovery software and restore the data can't be recognized by the following steps.Finally, you can format the pen drive when data is recovered.

Recover data from unformatted pen drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Insert the pen drive and start the data recovery software. Select the recovery module and let the software scan the device for lost data.

1Download and install the software on your computer. Insert pen drive and run the software.
2Select the pen drive so that the software can scan. You just need to wait during scanning.
3You can preview the files when scanning is completed.
4OSelect the files you need and recover them.

Reasons of pen drive not formatting

Many people feel confused that how can their pen drive appear the pen drive not formatting error when connect to the computer because they can use it normally last time. Actually, there are some reasons could cause this kind of error indeed. They are the following aspects:

1. The pen drive is ruined by heat, striking or water.

2. The pen drive is destroyed by virus.

3. Incompatibilities between the pen drive and computer.

How to protect pen drive from not formatting error

According to the reasons above which result in pen drive can not be formatted error, you should protect your pen drive from it by doing things as follows:.

1. Put your pen drive away from heat, striking or water.

2. Make sure the device your pen drive connects to not be affected by virus.

3. Do not unplug your pen drive from computer until the safe information appears.

Different pen drives not formatting situation

There are some kind of prompt reminds you of data recovery software:

1. The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or used another disk.

2. The disk can not be formatted.

3. Windows was unable to complete to format.

4. Make sure no window is using the device

4. Pen drive is RAW file system

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