Says I need to format disk in drive E: but I dont want to format it!

I recently needed to get a new hard drive because my Laptop would not start up, and from then when ever I put in a USB or SD card, it says that it needs to be formatted although it works perfectly fine on other computers. Is there anyway I can get it to
work on my laptop because I really do not want to format it. And it would also say that "the volume does not contain a recognized file system"
I have used a recovery tool but they don't recovery everything that I need.

Hello,
I'd ask in the Windows forum on Microsoft Community.
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