Step 2. Run Magoshare Data Recovery on your computer, then it shows all hard drives. Just select the external hard drive to start data recovery. Step 3. Click on Scan button to scan the external hard drive. It will deeply scan the external hard drive and find every recoverable file. Step 4. Once the scan is completed, it shows all recoverable files. You can preview the recoverable files. Just select the wanted files and save them. Formatting hard drive does not mean wiping hard drive.
The two methods above can help you securely format external hard drive, but it can permanently wipe your data. If you are going to sell, donate or lend your external hard drive to others, you should find a more powerful methods to format your external hard drive and permanently wipe your data.
AweEraser is a powerful data erasure software. However, sometimes they cannot format external hard drive to NTFS as expected like the below real user story:. Now it won't work. The computer recognizes its existence on the F drive and disk management says the status is healthy but it will not format.
Under File system, the drive is described as RAW. I do not want to throw it away and buy a new one. Any help would be much appreciated. When your external hard drive becomes RAW file system or write protected due to corrupted file system, the Windows built-in formation methods cannot finish the formatting task as usual. For example, you may need to format partitions to perform a clean installation of Windows system, get rid of a virus or malware, delete files from the external hard drive to re-use it, etc.
Besides, when the current file system of your external hard drive is not compatible with some device, you will also need to reformat it to another different file system. No matter what is your reason, the most important thing is learning how to do it.
The Windows built-in tool Disk Management and Diskpart can help you. Next are stepwise guides on the 2 methods. If there is any important data on the hard drive, please make sure it has been backed up beforehand. Windows 10 Disk Management tool is a native partition manager that can help you solve your basic disk partition problem like extend partition, shrink partition, create partition, format partition, etc.
To format external hard drive, do as below:. Connect your external hard drive to your Windows 10 PC. Right-click This PC on the desktop. All your hard drives will be displayed here. Right-click the external hard drive or partition, choose "Format When it pops up the format window, you can select the file system and set the cluster size according to your requirements.
Some users, especially those who have grasped enough computer knowledge, would like to format external hard drive in Windows 10 with command prompt. Do as follow:.
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