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Unformat Toshiba Portable Hard Drive

What would you do if your portable hard drive happens to become unformat? You have to format it before you can use it according to the system prompts. Of course you can format it in order to use it normally. But what about information saved on the portable hard drive previously? What if they are important for you? Can you recover the lost files after formatting the portable hard disk? So it seems that you can not format the portable hard drive easily. The truth is that you can retrieve those lost files at first with data recovery software.

Example of Toshiba portable hard drive becoming not formatted

My Toshiba portable hard drive is unusable suddenly without any sign. It needs to be formatted before I can use it. In other words, it meets unformat problem. My friend formatted it directly when he faced such unformatted portable hard drive last week. But I can not imitate him because there are massive valuable and useful files still saved on the portable hard drive. I am confused what should be done to view those files. Anyone could kindly help me? -Brian from New York

How to restore lost files from the unformatted portable hard drive with data recovery software

Those lost files could be retrieved from the portable hard drive not formatted with data recovery software. So we can restore them at first and then format the portable hard drive. What we should do is to keep the station of portable hard drive when find it is unformatted and retrieve information with data recovery tool. Here are its steps as follows:

Recover data from Toshiba portable hard drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the Toshiba portable hard drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.

1Download and launch the data recovery software on the computer.
2Insert the problematic portable hard drive to the computer.
3Run data restoration program on the computer. Then choose the recovery model and aim disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan, and then select the files useful to recover.

Way to protect data saved on the portable hard drive from being lost

Some people hold that it is inevitable to lose files from portable hard drive or other storage devices, because sometimes they are lost without any hint or reason. Actually, some data loss situations could be avoided as long as we know how to protect them. Some data loss cases because of virus infection, some due to incorrect usage to portable hard drive, and some other reasons. Here are some precautions as follows:

1. Back up the useful files. It is the basic precaution that back up the important information on computer hard disk or other storage devices. Even though you think the data loss case id an inevitable thing, you can retrieve those lost contents quickly and easily if you have backup. So try to back up the needed files and folders regularly in case of having no idea how to get the lost data back.

2. Do not use the harmful software and save suspicious files on the portable hard drive. It is better to download software and files from the reliable sites, because the portable hard drive even the computer may be infected by virus and worms which are hidden in those harmful software and files. One of the consequences is information saved on the computer and portable hard drive will be lost.

3. Do not unplug the portable hard drive from computer abruptly. Some people tend to plug the portable hard drive out of computer directly regardless of the portable hard drive is in the process of read and write. It is dangerous to such behavior, because we may lose information on the portable hard drive. So try to make sure remove the portable hard drive form computer safely.

4. Try to avoid physical damage to the portable hard drive. The physical damage include bend the portable hard drive, burn the portable hard drive or other similar actions to the portable hard drive. It is hard to get tiles back form the portable hard drive once it is corrupted physically, even with the help of data recovery tool.

5. Other useful precautions to lose data from portable hard drive.

Where the data is when portable hard drive turns to unformat

Some people where data saved on the portable hard drive is when it can not be opened and need to be formatted. As a matter of fact, those files are still saved on the portable hard drive though they are inaccessible. So we can retrieve them quickly and easily with the help of data recovery tool as long as there is no other corruption case happen to the portable hard drive. Please keep remember do not format the problematic portable hard drive immediately but restore lost data at first.

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