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Unformat SATA Hard Disk Drive
It is annoying to meet a hard disk drive not formatted. Information saved on it can not be viewed, new data can not be saved on it, and even it can not be opened if the hard disk drive becomes unformat. It is known to all that the hard disk drive could turn to usable once being formatted. But files saved on it are lost at the same time. So it seems that the hard disk drive can not be formatted immediately. It doesn’t matter, because those lost files could be retrieved form the unformatted hard disk drive.
Case of SATA hard disk drive becoming unformat
My SATA hard disk drive turned to unformat the other day, and I have asked many people for help to let me access data saved on it these days. But it is still showing unformat problem now. I have no idea how the hard disk drive need to be formatted before I can use it and I also do not know how to fix it without data loss. Those files are important and crucial for me, so I have to get them back with any cost. Is there any possible way for that? -Bruce form Los Angeles
How to retrieve lost data from the hard disk drive not formatted with data recovery software
Data recovery software could solve problem like example above that get files back from the unformatted hard disk drive. You can retrieve information first and then format the hard disk drive. At last the annoying problem is solved. Here are it's the guiding steps as follows to tell you how to restore data from the unformatted hard disk drive with data recovery tool:
Recover data from SATA hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, run the data recovery software and select a proper recovery module so that you can perform data recovery.
Reasons that hard disk drive turn to unformat
Some people think it is strange that the hard disk drive turn to unformat when use it, because they do not know why it should need to be formatted before we can use it. But as a matter of fact, there are some reasons that cause the hard disk drive not format situation happen. What's more, we can reduce or avoid the times of the unformatted hard disk drive occur if make it clear that why would it happen. Here are some of them below:
1. The hard disk drive is infected by virus. The hard disk drive may be attacked by virus and worms if they are involved in the software and other files that saved on the hard disk drive. Those harmful software and files are mainly come from the suspicious sites, such as malware, adware and so forth. Or those harmful files may come from other storage devices, such as memory card, external hard disk drive, and so on.
2. The file system of hard disk drive turns to raw. A raw hard disk drive also can not be opened to save new contents on it or access data saved on it previously. If you check the disk properties of the raw hard disk drive, you will find both the free space and the used space are 0 byte, and the file system of hard disk drive is raw.
3. System corruption. The hard disk drive also can not be used if the computer operating system goes wrong due to some reasons. At that time you can plug the hard disk drive out of that computer and insert it to another computer or reinstall the system to check whether the hard disk drive works normally.
4. Other various that responsible for the appearance of unformat hard disk drive. Data recovery program may be able to help you restore information from those formatted hard disk drive.
Brief introduction to SATA
SATA, whose full name is serial advanced technology attachment, is a kind of serial hardware interface based on the occupation standard. It is put forward by Intel, IBM, Dell, APT, Maxtor and Seagate in 2001.
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