I have a 3tb seagate desktop hard drive, the connector on the back was getting a bit flaky so i took it out of its enclosure and bought a Probox enclosure for it. I’ve just tried it on my PC and it says I need to format the drive before i can use it.
It that how it has to be? It’d be better if i can read whats on the drive (although its backed up elsewhere).

I can’t immediately think of any reason why that should be the case other than a faulty enclosure. Does it work if you put it back in the old enclosure again?

I’m assuming they’re both USB > SATA and there’s no sort of encryption in use?

I’ll try it back in the original case and see what happens.

No encryption and USB/SATA although the original enclose had one of those flat style USB connectors with the little bulge on one side while the new one is USB3 with a square connector.