Recover Data from Seagate Hard Drive after Format Error
Requirements: Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003 and 2008
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5.x and above (Including Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks and Yosemite)
I am stuck with this situation; I was looking to move some essential files and folders from my friend’s laptop to my Seagate hard drive. After completing the process when I tried to access Seagate hard drive from my laptop, format error is getting displayed on my screen. It says “The disk drive is not formatted, would you like to format it now”. The point is I am unable to access any of the files that are moved to my Seagate hard drive. To get away from this error message, the only solution is formatting the Seagate hard drive, which will erase all the files and folders contained in it. How can I recover Seagate hard drive after format error?
These are several reasons that may force you to do format. To continue using the Seagate hard drive the only option in front of you is to click on “yes” after such error message. If you can cancel the process by “No” this will do nothing and the Seagate hard drive will stay inaccessible. Let’s find the out the reasons that led to “Disk not formatted” error message
Causes behind “Disk not formatted” error on Seagate hard drive:
- Abrupt system termination: Interrupting the process carried out on Seagate hard drive by inadvertently terminating the system.
- Virus/malware intrusion: Attachment of viruses or malwares to the files in Seagate hard drive will corrupt the Seagate hard drive; this will lead to the prompting of format error.
- Logical errors: These kinds of errors are not known in most circumstances, which damage the file system of Seagate hard drive leads to format error.
- Other reasons: Seagate hard drive malfunctioning, formation of bad sectors, aging of Seagate hard drive in these cases error will be displayed.
How to restore Seagate hard drive after format error?
The solution to the problem starts after formatting the Seagate hard drive; you might be worried about the contents inside the Seagate hard drive, as formatting will erase all the contents in your hard drive. But formatting doesn’t actually mean that you have lost the file forever, by formatting the Seagate hard drive, old file system is replaced with a new file system and the registry file entries will get erased. You can recover Seagate hard drive after format error easily with the help of a professional application. It is always advised to do the Seagate hard drive recovery after format error as soon as possible, ensure that new files are not stored before recovering the files from Seagate hard drive.
Recover Seagate is an eminent tool that helps in faster recovery of data from Seagate hard drive after disk not formatted error. It is a simple application with advanced techniques that allows quick scanning of the Seagate hard drive. This tool identifies and retrieves all major types of file formats of document, pictures, audios, videos and many more. It is one of the best applications that help to recover Seagate hard drive after format error with great ease. This tool can also be used to recover Seagate RAW partition data in an easy and efficient manner.
Main features of Recover Seagate application
- The well designed graphical user interface makes it extremely easy, even without prior knowledge of this tool user can recover Seagate hard drive after format error.
- User can employ this tool to recover Seagate hard drive after format error from Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista and other versions.
- Besides recovering Seagate hard drive, this tool also facilitates SSD recovery from Seagate, Toshiba, Lexar, Kingston, Sony and various other brands.
- The demo version of this tool allows the user to verify the contents inside the Seagate hard drive by previewing it on the interface after recovery.
- It is capable of retrieving files from formatted Seagate hard drive which is corrupted, damaged or containing lot of bad sectors.
- Application works perfectly in restoring files from formatted hard drive that may have done intentionally or unintentionally due to errrors.
- Apart from Seagate hard drive, it has the also proven that it is powerful in resttoring data from portable devices such as Pen drive, USB drive, etc. without spending much time.
Steps to recover Seagate hard drive after format error:
Step (i): Download and install the free version of Partition Recovery tool on your PC. After successful installation, launch the software. In the Main Screen, select “Recover Partitions” option. Then, the tool shows all the logical and physical disk drives available in the system. Choose the formatted Seagate drive from where you have to recover data and click "Scan" option
Figure A: Main Window
Step (ii): Now, the software scans the selected partition to regain it's files back. Wait for the scanning to get complete. Upon the completion of scanning process, a list of recovered files are displayed. You can view the recovered files in Data View, and File Type View.
Figure B: Recovered Files in Data Type & File Type View
Step (iii): At last, if you are satisfied with the tool, then activate the license key of the tool and select the destination drive to save the recovered files.
Figure C: Save Recovered Files
