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Raw Silicon Power External Hard Drive not formatted
Have you ever used Silicon Power external hard drive? If you have used it, you may be familiar with such problem that the portable hard drive become raw file system and need to be formatted before you can use it. Do you have any solution to that problem? How can we use the problematic external hard drive normally and how can we access files saved on it at the previous time? Don’t worry if you do not know, because there is a solution to the portable external disk not formatted problem.
Example of Silicon Power external hard drive not formatted
My Silicon Power external hard drive shows raw file system and system asks me to format it before I can use it. I have no idea what have happened at all. All I know is that I can not open the external hard drive when I want to view information which saved on that questionable portable external usb at the previous time. What should I do to access those files at that time? Those files are very important for me, so I need them back. Anyone could kindly help me? -Jessica from New York
How to restore files from the raw Silicon Power external hard drive with data recovery software
The solution to Silicon Power external hard drive not formatted problem is to format the problematic disk. We can use it normally after formatting the portable drive. But if we need to access files saved on that portable hard drive previously, we have to recover them before format the drive. We can restore them with data recovery software. Here are the steps as follows:
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.
Why Silicon Power external hard drive turns to raw
It is not strange that the Silicon Power external hard drive turns to raw and need to be formatted before we can use it normally, because there must be reasons that result in the portable hard drive raw problem. It may because we have done something wrong to the external hard drive, or because there is something goes wrong on the computer, or other possible reasons. We may be able to avoid that problem if know those reasons. Here are some of them as follows:
1. Virus infection. One of the reasons of external hard drive become raw file system is the virus infection. The virus and worms may be hidden in the files which are suspicious and be stored on the portable hard disk. So we should be careful when need to save new files on the external hard drive. If the names of files contain weird words, we should not store them on the external hard drive, because those files may include harmful matters, such as virus.
2. Quit in the process of formatting the external hard drive. The external hard drive may become raw file system if we do not complete the formatting action. It may because the system such as windows can not complete the format, or because we ourselves cancel the format operation. No matter which kind of situation is, the portable hard drive may turn to raw and need to be formatted after that.
3. There are bad sectors in the external hard drive. If there are bad sectors in the external hard drive, we may find it is raw file system when use it and can not open it to access files and folders saved on it at the previous time. We can recover those files with the help of data recovery software and then format the raw external hard drive.
4. The external hard drive is not formatted. Sometimes we need to format the external hard drive before we start to use it. If we do not, the portable hard disk may turn to raw.
5. Other possible reasons.
Brief introduction to Silicon Power
Silicon Power is a company which produces and sells memory devices. We can buy storage devices such as memory flash card, memory flash drive (such as external hard drive), card reader, SSD, and others from it.
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