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Unformat Golden Star External Hard Drive

Have you ever heard of or used Golden Star external hard drive? And do you know the solution to Golden Star external hard drive unformat error? Generally speaking, we need to solve two problems when the portable hard disk drive shows unformat error. One is how to use the problematic external hard drive normally. The other is how to access files saved on the unformatted portable hard drive previously. We can solve the first one by formatting the external hard drive. As for the second one, actually, we can try to recover those original contents.

Example of encountering a unformat Golden Star external hard drive

There is a Golden Star external hard drive with unformat problem. I do not know when and how the portable hard disk drive turn to unformat situation and can not be used. What's more, thing I want to make it clear urgently is how can I read information stored on the unformatted external hard drive at the previous time. I have asked some people, but all of them have no idea. Is there any one can kindly help me? Any help would be appreciated. –Johnny from New York

How to recover information from the unformatted Golden Star external hard drive

In order to access files saved on the Golden Star external hard drive after it showing unformat problem, we should not format the portable hard drive immediately. What we can do is to try to recover those previous files from the unformatted external hard drive with data recovery software. Here are the steps of data recovery as follows:

Recover data from external hard disk

Preparation: Download and install the data recovery software to your computer. Then, you need to plug the external hard disk to the computer. Finally, launch the software and select a recovery module.

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Insert the unformatted Golden Star external hard drive to the computer.
3Operate the data restoration program and then choose the recovery model and aim disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and then pick up files needed to recover.

Situations that the Golden Star external hard drive loses its data

Which kind of situations have you ever met that contents saved on the Golden Star external hard drive get lost? We should know that there are more than one cases that we lose information from the portable hard disk drive, and the external hard drive unformat problem is just one situation of them. Actually, we do not need to worry too much though there are various data loss problems we may met when use it, because we may be able to recover the lost data with data recovery tool, like unformatted external hard drive case. Here are some of them below:

1. Delete files or folders saved on the Golden Star external hard drive. It is known to all of us we would lose contents saved on the external hard disk drive if delete them by mistake or by intention. If those files are saved on the computer hard disk drive, we can restore them in the recycle bin, but if they are stored on the external hard drive, we need to recover them with data restoration tool.

2. Format the Golden Star external hard drive accidentally or intentionally. We would lose contents on the external hard drive entirely if it is formatted no matter by error or by intention. For instance, we may format the portable hard disk drive when meet external hard drive unformat error (in this case, we should restore information at first and then format the external hard drive). Fortunately, we may be able to get the lost files back with the help of data recovery software.

3. Store files which contain virus and worms on the Golden Star external hard drive. We should keep it in mind that the external hard drive may be infected if files saved on it include harmful matters such as virus and worms. Them we may lose some or all contents on it, or we may see messy codes on the portable hard disk drive, or we may not be able to open the external hard drive after virus infection. Data recovery tool is also useful in this case.

4. Other situations that files saved on the external hard drive get lost logically.

File types can be retrieved by data recovery tool from unformatted Golden Star external hard drive

Data recovery software is powerful tools for us to get lost files back from the Golden Star external hard drive when it is in unformat trouble. For example, we may be able to recover audio files, video files, image files, word documents, excel documents, power point files, and other types of files from the unformatted external hard drive.

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