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Drive Not Formatted
Have you ever encountered the “drive not formatted” error? What should you do if you cannot access your hard drive (including external hard drive, internal hard drive, USB drive, SD card, etc.) because of the not formatted error? How to solve the not formatted error?
Now, in today’s post, I am going to show how to solve the drive is not formatted error with ease.
Disk Drive Not Formatted Error Message
When you cannot access your hard drive because of the not formatted error, you will receive the following errors:
The disk in drive [drive letter] is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
You need to format the disk in drive [drive letter] before you can use it. Do you want to format it?
In general, not formatted error not only happens on our computer hard drive but also appears in external hard drive, USB flash drive, SD card, and so on. And, the drive not formatted error can be caused by various reasons including virus attack, wrong or damaged file system, bad sectors…
Now, more and more users want to know how to fix this “You Need to Format the Disk before You Can Use It” error.
How to Solve the Disk Drive Not Formatted Error
Users who successfully solve the drive not formatted error without losing data do 2 things very well:
First, they recover lost data from the not formatted drive.
To recover data from not formatted hard drive, you can try using MiniTool Power Data Recovery. This read-only, easy-to-use and all-in-one data recovery software can help you effectively, completely and safely recover lost data from not formatted hard drive with 3 steps.
1.Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery, and then select Damaged Partition Recovery.
2.Full scan the not formatted drive.
3.Save all needed data.
Second, they format the not formatted drive.
Windows disk management, Windows explorer and some partition magic tools like MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you format hair disk effectively. You can read this post “How to Format a Hard Drive with Ease” to know more information about formatting.
Here, if you want to know more detailed steps about dealing with the drive not formatted error, you can watch the following video.
LOOK! I quickly solved the SD card not formatted error without losing data.
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