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Data Recovery after format Memorex External Hard Drive
What should we do after formatting the Memorex external hard drive if there are files important saved on it? Maybe we would think of the way to get the lost information back at that time. Do you have any idea how to retrieve lost files and folders from the formatted portable hard disk drive? As a matter of fact, we can try to restore files useful after formatting the Memorex external hard drive with data recovery software, and we may be able to recover what we need.
Example of Memorex external hard drive being formatted
My Memorex external hard drive was formatted by mistake five days ago. I can store new contents on it after that, but the problem is all files and folders saved on it at the previous time have been lost now. What can I do if I want to get them back? Actually, those original files are very vital and crucial for me, so I have to retrieve them. Is there any way for me to recover lost information from the formatted Memorex external hard drive? Help me, please. –Neil from New York
How to restore data from the formatted Memorex external hard drive with data recovery software
It is true that we can try data recovery to formatted Memorex external hard drive to get files needed back. What's more, it is not time-cost and difficult for us to perform the data recovery after format. On the contrary, it is easy and simple. The following steps will show us how to restore data with data recovery tool:
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install the data recovery software to your computer. Then, you need to plug the external hard disk to the computer. Finally, launch the software and select a recovery module.
Notice should be took of when recover lost information
There are some things should be took notice of though it is easy and simple to restore lost information from the formatted Memorex external hard drive with data recovery program. We may not be able to get all we need back after formatting the portable hard drive if do something improper at that moment, or we can retrieve nothing from the formatted external hard drive. So we should be careful before all contents useful have been got back. Here are some tips we should keep in mind as follows:
1. Do not format the Memorex external hard drive once again. We may format the formatted portable hard drive again so as to get lost data back, but what we should know is that we can not retrieve what we need from the formatted external hard drive by formatting the external hard disk drive. What makes thing worse is that we may lose the ability to restore lost information from the formatted portable hard drive. So it is better not to reformat the external hard drive.
2. Do not store new information on the formatted Memorex external hard drive. We should not save any new data on the formatted portable hard disk if we need to perform data recovery on it. The reason is that we may lose the possibility to recover files from the formatted external hard drive even though with the help of data recovery tool, because those lost contents may be overwritten by the new data.
3. Do not store data recovery tool and files to be retrieved on the formatted Memorex external hard drive. We have talked that we should nor save any new information on the formatted external hard drive until what we need have been recovered completely with data recovery program. What we should now is that both the data recovery tool and data to be recovered belong to the new data, too. So we can not save them on the formatted portable external usb.
4. Other related tips before all files needed have been restored form the formatted Memorex external hard drive.
Kind of storage devices that can be supported by data recovery tool
We may format other kind of storage devices by error when use them, such as SD card, CF card, TF card, MMC card, memory stick, XD picture card, USB stick, hard disk drive, and so forth. By the way, we can perform data recovery on them with data recovery tool after formatting them, like formatted external hard drive data recovery.
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