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Seagate external hard disk recovery with not formatted erro

May 25, 2014 7:41PM PDT

"Disk in drive is not formatted, do you want to format it now". As a computer user, you may be quite familiar with such kind of error message. We often simply call it not formatted error, which often occurs on hard disk drive or external hard disk like Seagate.

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(NT) And what's your question?
May 25, 2014 7:56PM PDT
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This is possible also
May 27, 2014 10:39PM PDT

I had the same issue with one of the 3 hard drives inside my computer.(Windows 7 Pro) Not only it gave that same error message but it was also making a clicking sound. As soon I a removed the case cover (computer was on) the clicking noise became sporadic. So i figure: "must be a loose connection" so I Turned off the computer, I then disconnected/reconnected both the data and power cables. Turned the computer back on. No more error about formatting. And no more clicking sound. This also happens if you encrypt the whole hard drive with TrueCrypt. But this only happened to me on a XP OS Machine. I have not tried it in windows 7

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Seen this as well
May 30, 2014 1:08PM PDT

I also have seen this but if I exit out of the prompt to format, I can open it no problem under My Computer. Never really knew why it comes up but it never proved to be a burden.

I now format all my new drives as exFAT as it works on both MAC and PC and can transfer large files. Never had an issue after I changed to exFAT.