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Raw Buslink External Hard Drive not formatted

It is useful for us to carry an external hard drive with us, such as Buslink external hard drive. What if it turns to raw and need to be formatted before we can use it? Do you have any way to solve the portable hard drive not formatted error? Maybe some people need to access files saved on the raw portable external usb at the previous time, or some people want to keep using the problematic external hard drive after fixing it, such as save new information on it. Actually, data recovery software can help us.

Example of Buslink external hard drive getting into not formatted error

I need your guys help to view contents which stored on my Buslink external hard drive at the previous time. It is difficult even impossible for me to access them, because the portable hard drive is raw file system now. I can not open it, and what's more, I would be prompted that the external hard drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now when I try to open it every time. I have no idea what to do, but I have to use those inaccessible files as soon as possible. Is there any help? -Su from LA

How to restore data from the raw Buslink external hard drive with data recovery software

We can use the raw Buslink external hard drive to save new data after formatting it like system prompt. If we need to access the original files saved on the portable drive, what we can do is to recover them at first. Data recovery tool may help us get what we need from the raw external hard drive. Here are the steps:

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.

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Insert the external hard drive to the computer on which data recovery tool mounted.
3Open the data restoration program and then we can choose the recovery model and aim disk to scan.
4Preview the contents one by one after the scan and then pick up the files useful to recover.

Cases that the Buslink external hard drive gets into format problem

As we have known, we may be able to get files which stored on the Buslink external hard drive before it becomes raw file system back with the help of data recovery software. It means that we may still have the ability to access information on the portable hard drive when it is in not formatted error. What about other problems happen to external hard drive related to the format matter? Can we also recover lost files and folders? There are various problems related to format we may meet when use the external hard drive, and here are some of them which may be able to be fixed by data recovery tool below:

1. The external hard drive is formatted by accident or by intention. All files and folders saved on the portable hard drive originally would be erased if it is formatted either accidentally or intentionally. What we can do if we need to view the lost information after formatting the external hard drive is to try to recover them. Fortunately, there is an opportunity for us to get them back from the formatted portable hard disk drive with the help of data recovery program.

2. The portable hard disk is in not formatted problem. You need to format the disk in drive O before you can use it. Do you want to format it now? You have encountered the external hard drive not formatted error if you saw sentences above when use the external hard disk drive. In other words, the external hard drive not formatted also called as external hard drive raw problem. We also may be able to get files back from it under the help of data restoration tool.

3. The external hard disk drive can not be formatted. We would lose data if format the portable hard drive, but do you know that we may lose files on the external hard drive when it can not be formatted, either? Sometimes we may see windows can not format the external hard drive information when click on the format button accidentally or intentionally. After that, we may find that can not use the portable hard drive any more. We can ask data recovery tool for help if need to recover the original data.

4. Other external hard drive format cases.

Order of recovering data and formatting the raw Buslink external hard drive

We have talked that we can use the raw external hard drive, such as save new information on it, if we format it. And we can access the original data on the portable hard drive by recovering it with data recovery tool. Which should be done at first, recovering or formatting? Actually, what we should do is to restore needed files firstly and then format the raw external hard drive in order to solve the problem successfully.

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