My friend's External HDD when connected gives a message the drive needs to be formatted.
He has some important files in the HDD like Personal Videos pictures which he would like to access.
Can someone please suggest how this can be recovered?
Its WD External HDD.
Hi [MENTION=29208]ajayritik[/MENTION],
Based on your post, I'd like to check with you, have you tried to connect the HDD to another PC? Is it working ok from the existing PC? If yes, please backup your existing data. Did you run the antivirus scan recently for the PC? Can you see the HDD used space in “Properties”? Could you give me some details about that? For the meantime, I’d suggest you some basic troubleshooting steps that may help you to solve the issue.
1) Go into Disk Management and in the bottom-right panel look for a ribbon which labelled as RAW and has no drive name.
2) Right-click on that & choose Change Drive Letter and Path.
3) Click Add and accept the default letter or choose preferred letter from the list.
4) Click OK.
For data recovery, you can try the 3rd party data recovery software's.
Example: Recuva and Hd sentinel.
Hope it helps.