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External hard drive not formatted error? You need to format disk in drive before you can use it OR The disk in drive X is not formatted? External hard drive says it needs to be formatted? How to fix error "you need to format the disk in drive"?

Now, if you encounter the not formatted error, you can do the following 2 things.
First, you should recover data from the not formatted hard drive by using MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
Second, you can format the not formatted external hard dive to NTFS.