I get the message " Drive needs to be formatted" when trying to access my external drive, which has been formatted and had data on it. What do I do?
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Created by: Fantom Drives
Modified on: Mon, 10 Apr, 2017 at 11:31 AM
Your symptoms are consistent with data corruption, or a drive that has been reformatting with a different file system on another operating system. Do you need access to the data?
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If data recovery is not necessary, you can simply reformat the drive per the instructions in your product manual.
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