Hard Disk Recovery

I am running computer with Windows 7 very well. However, today, I find one of my hard drives is not accessible and I receive the following error.

In this situation, what should I do? Should I take Windows’s suggestion to format hard drive?

Hard Drive Is Not Accessible

Remember!!! DO NOT format your hard drive before you take out the data in it. Formatting is a bad idea if the drive is failing since formatting will delete all data. As a matter of fact, the data in the not formatted hard drive could be get recovered as long as they are not overwritten. Therefore, please do nothing before recovering lost data.

Recover Data from Inaccessible Hard Drive

As a matter of fact, if you receive the warning “You Need to Format the Disk before You Can Use It”, you need to recover its data first, and then format it. MiniTool Power Data Recovery proves to be an excellent choice for lost data recovery because of its excellent performance, high security and simple interface. Now, let’s see the detailed steps.

Step 1: Launch MiniTool Power Data Recovery to get its main interface as follows.

Step 2: In this interface, to recover data from inaccessible hard drive, you can select the “Damaged Partition Recovery” module since it focuses on recovering data from damaged, formatted, RAW partition. In general, as long as the partition exists, you can recover its data with this professional data recovery module.

Step 3: Select the not formatted hard drive and then click “Full Scan” button to thoroughly scan it. After scanning, all found data are listed in the following window.

Step 4: Choose all desired data and then click “Save” button to store them. Note: it is recommended to store recovered files on another drive. Otherwise, the lost data could be overwritten.

After all operations are done, you have finished recovering lost data from not formatted hard drive before formatting with MiniTool Power Data Recovery. Next, you can turn to the “Format” disk provided by MiniTool Partition Wizard to format this hard drive. For more information, please see How to Fix: You Need to Format the Disk before You Can Use It.