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    Lorie3523 Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    Jul 1, 2013, 08:24 PM
    Ok! The dread “not formatted error” message generally indicates hard drive problems. This can occur for many different reasons including a computer virus, hard drive problem, power surge, or problems with the operating system. If you receive this type of error message, it is important that you act carefully to keep your important data safe.

    1. Do NOT say "yes" to format the drive in case it could make things much more complicated.

    2. Do NOT attempt to write anything new on this hard drive in case that new data would overwrite your drive data and make it gone forever.

    3. Download data recovery freeware to help you. There are many data recovery tools out there. But, no all of them could be efficient and useful enough. You should pay much attention to opt for a proper one.

    Read more information about hard drive data recovery freeware here:
    http://geeksdo.com/freeware/data-recovery.html

    4. Run the selected hard drive recovery tool to retrieve your inner files and pictures.

    5. Save and back up all your restored data on another storage device in case of data recovery failure.

    Note: Actually, in your case, if you have backed up everything important on another drive before, you would not have so many troubles. Therefore, you should learn a lesson to do regular data backup.
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    Jul 1, 2013, 08:26 PM
    Ok! The dread “not formatted error” message generally indicates hard drive problems. This can occur for many different reasons including a computer virus, hard drive problem, power surge, or problems with the operating system. If you receive this type of error message, it is important that you act carefully to keep your important data safe.

    1. Do NOT say "yes" to format the drive in case it could make things much more complicated.

    2. Do NOT attempt to write anything new on this hard drive in case that new data would overwrite your drive data and make it gone forever.

    3. Download data recovery freeware to help you. There are many data recovery tools out there. But, no all of them could be efficient and useful enough. You should pay much attention to opt for a proper one.

    Read more information about hard drive data recovery freeware here:
    Best 6 FREE Data Recovery Software with each tutorial to recover deleted data

    4. Run the selected hard drive recovery tool to retrieve your inner files and pictures.

    5. Save and back up all your restored data on another storage device in case of data recovery failure.

    Note: Actually, in your case, if you have backed up everything important on another drive before, you would not have so many troubles. Therefore, you should learn a lesson to do regular data backup.
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    Jul 7, 2013, 10:56 PM
    OK! You are right!

    1. The formatting process often would increase the difficulty of complete data recovery. So, it is really right not to format it before you are really to restore your data.

    2. Do not save anything new on this drive in case that new data would rewrite your needed data.

    3. Download a drive data recovery freeware that has ever successfully restored all the data of my boyfriend from his “not formatted” hard drive. It is really worth a shot.

    4. Save all your restored data on a different drive in case of data recovery failure.

    5. Back up everything important at least on two drives or locations from now on.
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    Kordell Stewart Posts: 2, Reputation: 1
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    #24

    Aug 1, 2013, 11:53 AM
    Hi,


    You can easly get it from Google. There is a recovery program named remo recover toolkit. I think they are providing free demo tool kit. Worth a try.
    Wishing luck for getting back your files.

    Tnks
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    #25

    Aug 1, 2013, 11:54 AM
    Hi,,

    You can easly get it from Google. There is a recovery program named remo recover toolkit. I think they are providing free demo tool kit. Worth a try.
    Wishing luck for getting back your files.

    Tnks..
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    Aug 1, 2013, 12:02 PM
    Oh no! No one has figured this out since 2005!
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    Nov 1, 2013, 11:06 AM
    @WaseemOnLine... Genius! Thank you soooooo much! This worked to get my flash drive back. Was able to recover all of my files and move them to another location just in case something is wrong with the flash drive. Awesome. Can't thank you enough.

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