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Can you give me some advice?"Ĭan't format hard drive in Windows 10 8 7 error message after confirmed the formatting But I need to get back all data before formatting the external HDD. I want to format my external hard drive because system disables me to open the disk if I do not format it. "I need external hard drive data recovery software to restore files from RAW external hard drive that cannot be formatted. You need to format disk before you can use it Now, what can I do to fix the external hard drive not formatted error?" Without other choice, I click yes to format the external hard drive, but system reports another message to say cannot complete the format. "Can I recover data from my external hard drive that won’t format? I want to write some data to my 500GB external hard drive, but system says external hard drive is not formatted when I plug it to my computer. Is there any way to force format hard drive or external hard drive or SSD when it cannot be formatted? A quick format doesn’t delete the data but instead erases only the pointers to the files.External Hard Drive Won't Format - Cannot format removable HDD/SSD (7 solutions) Yes, but don’t use this method if you want the data to be permanently erased.

Then, follow the Windows Disk Management method below since the disk won’t be visible in Windows Explorer.

Unplug the drive you want to format and connect it to a different SATA port on your motherboard which isn’t part of the RAID controller.

Go into the RAID controller’s BIOS (look for a message during PC boot up) and look for an option to format the drive(s) or reconfigure the RAID as individual disks (this will erase them all).

Use a software utility which came with your RAID controller or motherboard.Before you use any of them, make sure you back up any files you want to keep. If you have two or more disks configured as a RAID, there are various ways to format these drives. It will treat the USB as another drive so to avoid inadvertently wiping that as well, remove it after you’ve booted into DBAN. Your PC should automatically boot the DBAN software, which will guide you through the process of erasing your hard drive, with options for different levels of data-wiping.