I have a HP Pavillion laptop that just shut down on me a couple of days ago and wont reboot. Upon performing several startup repairs, I finally got a hard drive failure message. I then purchased an external hard drive enclosure, connected it to the laptop hard drive and now I cannot read the data. It’s actually requesting a reformat prior to it being used. Is there anything that I could do to get this to work without doing a reformat and losing the important data that’s on there? Please help.
