Recover and get data back when encounter "Disk/drive is not formatted..." error

"Disk/drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?", few computer users have never bumped into this error I bet, only sometimes it will be "* drive is not accessible. The device is not ready" message or the disk simply cannot be recognized by Windows. Of course you should firstly check the drive which is reported to be not formatted to make sure the physical connection is right. What if the drive is RAW instead of invalid physical connection? Data recovery software like EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition will help you unformat drive in such kind of condition.

What does "Disk/Drive is not formatted..." error mean indeed?

"Disk/Drive is not formatted..." error may be caused by many reasons, say virus attacks or power failure etc. When you check it in disk management, it might be healthy, but it might have no file system and drive letter. When this happens, we call it a RAW drive. That means the disk is not prepared to be used within the operating system or the data can no longer be read due to data corruption, while every floppy disk or hard disk/drive needs to be formatted with a particular file system before being used, thus we get the "disk is not formatted" message when try to access a RAW disk.

What to do when the system tells "Disk/Drive is not formatted..."?

To access the RAW drive again, you need to format the disk, but once you format the RAW drive, the data will be formatted and lost. So we recommend you to use format recovery software to recover and get your data back from the RAW drive before going any further. Once you've got your data back, you may feel free to format the disk showing "Disk/Drive is not formatted..." in order to access the disk and copy or re-install the recovered data for a fresh start.

How to recover data from the disk showing "Disk/Drive is not formatted..." message?

"Complete Recovery" module of EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition can help recover data from disk showing "Disk/drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" message easily and safely even if you are not a professional in computer. Meanwhile, we recommend you to download the free version and follow the step-by-step instructions below to recover lost files.

Step-by-step instructions:

Step 1: Download it, install and run EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard Free Edition and then select Complete Recovery module.

Step 2: Select the file types you want to recover and then select the drive showing "Disk/drive is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" message in the drive list and click "Next" to scan the drive.

Step 3: Check the partitions you want to recover data from in the list (usually we recommend you to use the highlighted partition we checked in default), and click "Next" to do the scan.

Step 4: Find and select the files or directories you want to recover and click "Next" to save them.

 

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