Wondershare-Disk-Manager-Wizard-Mode.jpg]];var lpix_1=pix_1.length;var p1_0= [[628' alt='Ontrack Disk Manager 10.46' title='Ontrack Disk Manager 10.46' />Bulletin Daily Paper 0. Western Communications, Inc. Bulletin Daily Paper 0. Published on May 3. The Bulletin Daily print edition for Wednesday May 3. SOLVED You Need to Format the Disk Before You Can Use It after improper USB unplugging. Sometimes the following error appears after you have accidentally unplugged your External USB drive without using the Safely Remove option You need to format the disk in drive X before you can use it. Do you want to format it. As a result of that you cannot access your data using Windows or another OS. Full software with working crack, Ontrack EasyRecovery Enterprise version 11. Windows 7 Lite English 64 Bits Espanol. Atola Insight Forensic Allinone forensic data recovery tool. Indepth disk diagnostics, disk duplication and wiping, firmware and file recovery. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Easily share your publications and get. The above error happens because when you accidentally force unplug disconnect your external USB drive USB HDD, USB drives, etc. Safely Remove Option Safe Remove Hardware option, then the USB drive Partition Table becomes corrupted. To avoid losing your data or corrupting the storage drives partition table, always make sure that you have closed any open files and terminate any actions regarding your USB drive including Windows Explorer, and always use the Safely Remove option before unplugging your drive. In the case that you still receive a warning message when Ejecting USB Mass Storage Devices like This device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using the device, and then try again, then log off and log on your computer again or restart your computer. In this tutorial you can find clear instructions on how to restore the corrupted partition table on your hard drive HDD after unplugging it improperly. Ontrack Disk Manager 10.46' title='Ontrack Disk Manager 10.46' />I have used this procedure several times with successful results to resolve the described problem for my customers. Attention Keep in mind that you follow this guide at your own risk and you have to be very careful with the steps on it, to avoid losing your data. In order to solve the USB HDD unrecognized problem I have use the Test. Disk utility several times with great results. Test. Disk is powerful FREE data recovery softwareIt was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions andor make non booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table. Partition table recovery using Test. Disk is really easy. How to solve You need to format this drive problem Restore lost HDD partition table using Test. Disk. Notice. Before you continue to the steps below try to use the CHKDSK command to repair errors on the disk. To do that 1.  Open an elevated command prompt Command Prompt Admin. Type the following command and press Enter chkdsk  X F RReplace the letter X in the above command, accordingly the drive letter of the problematic disk. Step 1. Download Testdisk utility to your computer. Navigate to http www. Test. Disk and download Testdisk utility. Click to download the Test. Disk version according your OS. Windows. 3. When download operation is completed, navigate to your download location folder and right click on testdisk 7. WIP. win. zip compressed file and select Extract All to decompress its contents. Step 2. Use Testdisk utility to recover hard drive lost partition. In this step, you can learn how to use Test. Disk, to restore the corrupted partition table on your damaged hard drive. First of all, connect the unrecognized hard disk drive HDD on your computer. Now explore testdisk 7. WIP. win folder contents and double click to run the testdiskwin. Click Yes at UAC warning message. At the Test. Disk utility first screen, press Enter at the highlighted Create option. Wait until Test. Disk scans your computer for connected disks. Using the keyboard arrow keys CAREFULLY select the unrecognized external USB hard drive and press Enter to  Proceed to disk analysis. At the next screen select using the keyboard arrows keys the partition table type e. Intel and press Enter. Notice At this point, Test. Disk utility usually recognizes the correct partition table type and highlight it automatically. For Windows OS the partition table type is Intel. At the next screen press Enter at the Analyze option and let Test. Disk utility to analyze your HDD and find the lost partition table structure. After disk analysis, Test. Disk should display the current partition structure. Press Enter again and let Test. Disk to Quick Search your disk for lost partitions. If Test. Disk can locate the lost partitions, during Quick Search operation, then you will see a similar screen like below. Press the P key letter on keyboard to ensure that the partition found contains your files. At this point two different things cases can happen Case 1. If you can see a list of your lost files on your screen like the screenshot below, then press the q letter key to return to the previous menu and continue to Step 3. Important Notice At this point I suggest to use the copy c to copy function of Testdisk utility, to recover the founded files to another media before applying the instructions on Step 3. Case 2. If the Test. Disk cannot open recognize the filesystem or the filesystem is damaged, then you have to perform a deeper search using Test. Disk utility to find lost partitions. To do that a. Press q to quit this section and return to the previous one. At the previous sections screen, press Enter. Press Enter one more time to perform a Deeper Search. Now be patient until Test. Disk analyzes your disk. This operation may take some time. When the Deeper Search operation is completed, press P again to see if your files are listed. If you files are listed, then press q letter key to return to the previous screen and then continue to the next step. Important Notice At this point I suggest to use the copy c to copy function of Testdisk utility, to recover the founded files to another media before applying the instructions on Step 3. Step 3 Write Partition Structure back to disk. After successful recognition listing of your files as described above, press q to proceed to restore the partition table on your disk. NCE AGAIN DO NOT PROCEED TO OVERWRITE THE FOUND PARTITION TABLE IF YOUR FILES ARE NOT LISTED ON YOUR SCREEN. At this case use one of the recovery programs mentioned on this article to find out if you can recover your files, or visit a data recovery professional service. At the screen below, by using your keyboard arrows, highlight the Write option and then press Enter to write the found partition structure to the hard disks MBR Master Boot Record. Press y when asked to confirm your decision. After that, press Q several times in order to quit Test. Disk utility and then restart your computer for the changes take effect. IMPORTANT If during Startup, Windows wants to check the problematic hard disk for errors DO NOT INTERRUPT the check disk operation. If you follow the above procedure correctly and with a little luck you should see again your hard disk contents back to life Suggestion Before using the disk, follow the instructions given in this article to test and diagnose your disk for hardware problems. 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