External hard drive suddenly cannot open it give the message error "you must format the disk in the drive until you can use it", and your hard disk is 0 bytes

External hard drive can not suddenly open - fixed

my external hard drive worked very well all the time, but suddenly I can't open it more, when I tried to open it, it gives the error message "You must format the disk in the drive until you can use it" and my hard drive is 0 bytes, average there is no file in the hard drive. Average, all the data inside hard disk are gone!

Hello muhammad.

Before you do anything with this player, you can search online for some data recovery utilities so that you can try to recover your data.

What operating system do you use?

Have you tried running chkdsk on the drive?

Let us know.

Best regards

Matthew_Ha

Tags: Windows

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