Solution for Pen Drive not formatted error, accidentally formatted pen stick

Last updated on 24/04/2017

Pendrive not formatting error is a common problem about pen drive data loss. When a pen drive has not formatted error, you may receive message like:

• The disk in drive is not formatted do you want to format it now?
• You need to format disk in drive before you can use it
• CHKDSK is not available for RAW pen drive

Meanwhile, your pendrive will show RAW file system format and its capacity might become 0 byte. The pen drive is inaccessible when it reports not formatted error. How to change RAW pen drive to FAT32? Can you get back files when pen drive is not working when it gives format disk and not formatting RAW error warning?

You can download iCare Data Recovery to recover files from unformatted pen drive.

Video Tutorial: how to use iCare Data Recovery for file rescue

Steps to Recover Files from not formatted pen drive

Pen drive data recovery software free download for formatted pen stick data recovery within a few steps:

Step1. Connect the pen drive to PC running Windows OS. Launch the software and wait the software to scan.

Step2. Choose the pen drive as aim disk to scan.

Step3. You can preview the files after scanning and then select the files lost from the pen drive to recover.

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Pen Drive Format Related Problem Fixing

This article is telling you what happend to your pen drive and the chance of recovery and how to use iCare Data Recovery to restore files from pen drive.

If you are seeing the not formatted notice when you connect your pen stick to your PC and Windows come up with the above error, the boot sector may become bad or some related problem that makes your usb pen stick not working.

To restore files from usb pen stick, you need a professional data recovery tool like iCare Data Recovery, which will search lost files for free and makes sure you can restore lost files with it evaluation demo preview.

Convert Pen Drive from RAW to FAT32

In order to repair not formatted error on pen drive, you need to format the pen drive from RAW to FAT32. First of all, you can run Windows built-in Error-checking tool to check if the pendrive contains any bad sector. If the pen drive contains bad sectors, you can full forma the pen drive. If it doesn’t contain bad sector, you can also quick format the pen drive, which can save much time.

==>> For more information to convert RAW pen drive to FAT32, please go to this page - Convert RAW disk to FAT32>>

==>>If you need to convert RAW to NTFS, please visit - RAW file system to NTFS>>

Supported media:

Cellphone, Flash drive, memory card, hard disk drive, USB drive, external hard disk, pen drive etc.

Are you also looking for a free photo recovery program for memory card when you mistakenly format your SD card, CF, XD or when the memory card has not formatted error? You can also rely on iCare Data Recovery software. This software helps recover deleted data from CF card, unformat memory card and more.

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