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Unformat PWR External Hard Drive
We would be asked to format the external hard drive if it shows unformat problem, such as PWR external hard drive when we use it. You need to format the disk in drive O before you cab use it. Do you want to format it now, for instance? What would you do if you met it when there are files useful saved on the unformatted portable hard disk? Actually, we can start data recovery when encounter portable external usb unformat error with data recovery software.
Case of PWR external hard drive showing unformat error
I need a way to fix my PWR external hard drive unformat error. I know how to use it normally, that is to format the unformatted portable hard disk drive according to the system prompt. So the way I want to know to not format external hard drive solution is how to access original data stored on the portable hard drive. I totally have no idea whether could I view them again, but I hope you guys can tell me what I should do to access them, because they are really important for me. –Neil from LA
How to recover lost files from the unformatted PWR external hard drive with data recovery software
We have the ability to restore files saved on the unformatted PWR external hard drive and then access them with the help of data recovery software, because it can scan them and then recover if they are still on the portable hard disk drive. The following steps aim to show us how it works in detail:
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.
Different situations that data lost from PWR external hard drive
It is one of the data loss cases that the PWR external hard drive needs to be formatted before we can use it. Namely the PWR portable hard disk drive gets into unformat trouble. The reason is no matter the problematic external hard drive is formatted or not, we can not access files or folders saved on it at the previous time. It is terrible, indeed. Actually, there are situations as similar as the external hard drive unformat case. The same point of them is that information on the external hard drive is erased. Here are some of them as follows:
1. Files or folders saved on the external hard drive are deleted. It is familiar with us to delete contents stored on the portable hard disk drive because of some reasons or delete them just by mistake. What should we do when can not find them in the recycle bin if those deleted files are still useful? As a matter of fact, we may be able to get them back with the help of data recovery software.
2. The portable hard disk drive is formatted. There would be nothing remain on the external hard disk drive after being formatted by mistake or by intention, no matter which kind of situation it is at that time, such as normal or unformat situation. Fortunately, we still are able to perform data recovery on formatted external hard drive with data recovery program like unformatted portable hard drive.
3. The computer closed abruptly when the external hard drive connected it. we may encounter such situation that the computer closed suddenly due to power failure. It is dangerous for contents saved on the external hard drive if it is inserted to the computer and those files are working at that time, because we may lose some or all data in that case. We may still get them back with data recovery tool.
4. Other logical data loss situations to us when we use external hard drive.
Types of files can be retrieved from the unformatted PWR external hard drive
Generally speaking, we tend to save file types like image files, word documents, video files, audio files, excel files, power point files, and other common file types on the external hard drive. So if the PWR external hard drive gets into unformat trouble, there is possibility for us to get all of them back with data recovery program.
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