Hard Disk Recovery

Question: when I stored data on my Windows hard drive, I received a warning as following:
“You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it. Do you want to format it?”

And then, I click Cancel button since I know formatting will erase all data on the partition. However, I received another warning, as shown below.

At this time, what should I do? Anyone who can help me for this partition containing some significant data?

Now, in today’s post, you will learn how to fix this problem as well as recover data from this unformatted partition.

How to Fix: You Need to Format the Disk before You Can Use It

Chapter one: recover data from not formatted hard drive

As a matter of fact, to successfully deal with this error to reuse this partition, you need to recover its data at first. MiniTool Power Data Recovery, a piece of professional data recovery software, can help to recover data that have been lost in a variety of ways including mistaken formatting, accidental deletion, partition changes, computer virus invasion, etc. What’s more, it is a read-only tool, thus you can use it to recover lost data without affecting the original data.

The above window is the main interface of this green, professional, free data recovery software. Here, to recover data from unformatted hard drive, you can try clicking “Damaged Partition Recovery” since this feature is specially designed to recover data from damaged, formatted, RAW partition. In general, as long as the partition exists, you can click this module to recover lost data.
Then, full scan the unformatted partition.
Finally, save all needed files on a safe place.

Chapter two: format the unformatted partition

After recovering lost data with MiniTool Power Data Recovery, you are able to format it to rescue it. Here, formatting partition effectively and easily, you can click this post to know more details.

Watch how to successfully deal with this error in Youtube.

Bottom Line

After seeing the simple introduction, you should know how to successfully fix: You Need to Format the Disk before You Can Use It.

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