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Quick Formatted Toshiba Portable Hard Drive

What would you do if you happen to quick format the Toshiba portable hard drive? Have you ever formatted the portable hard drive again so as to get back the lost information which saved on it previously? You can not retrieve what you want or even you may lose the chance to restore the lost files and folders in such way, in reality. It is wrong to reformat or save new information on the formatted portable hard drive in order to restore the lost data. The correct way is to ask the data recovery software for help.

Case of quick formatting the Toshiba portable hard drive

I have a Toshiba portable hard drive on which I have saved a lot of files and folders. It helps me a lot when I am on a business trip. But it was quick formatted by my little sister the other day accidentally. Now I need to get those lost files back from the formatted portable hard drive because there is no backup at all. I have no idea what is supposed to do on such case, not to mention my sister. Is there any feasible way for me to retrieve all my losses from the formatted portable hard drive? -Ben from LA

How to get back lost files from the quick formatted portable hard drive with data recovery software

You have the ability to restore the lost information from the quick formatted portable hard drive. What's more, you could get them back quickly and safely. But you need some help of course. The data recovery software could assist you retrieve all your losses within a few minutes. Here are its steps as follow to show you quickness and effectiveness:

Recover data from formatted portable hard drive

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect the portable hard drive to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.

1Download and install the data recovery software on the computer.
2Connect the formatted portable hard drive to the computer.
3Run the data retrieval tool on the computer and choose the recovery model and object disk to scan.
4Preview the contents after the scan in the list and select the data need to be retrieved to recover.

Various data loss problems may happen to portable hard drive

Apart from the quick formatted portable hard drive will lead to information lost from it, there are some other various data loss situations, which could be salvaged by data recovery tool. Such kind of data loss cases are regarded as logical corruption and the lost information could be retrieved by data recovery program easily and quickly. Here are some data loss scenarios as follows besides the formatting case:

1. Files stored on the portable hard drive are deleted accidentally or on purpose. It is one of the common data loss situations we may meet in our daily life. Those files could be deleted directly, or shift deleted, or the recycle bin is empted without backup. Fortunately, all those lost files have the opportunity to be retrieved no matter they are deleted by mistake or by intention. Data recovery tool could restore them efficiently.

2. Virus attacks. It is other common data loss situation happen to portable hard drive when we use it. The portable hard drive and information saved on it would be infected by the virus and worms easily once they are contacted. We may can not open the portable hard drive, we may lose some files saved on the portable hard drive previously, some files or all information may become messy code, or other unpleasant results if virus attack our portable hard drive and files.

3. System error. All information saved on the portable hard drive may become inaccessible if there is something goes wrong about the computer operating system. System can not read the portable hard drive or its data on such condition. We can connect our portable hard drive to other computer to check whether its information is accessible or not. We should ask the data recovery program for help if we still are not able to view the files.

4. Disk corruption. There is nothing we can get from the corrupted disk, such as save new contents on it, view data on it, remove files from it, and so forth. The reasons to result in a corrupted disk are various and the only thing we can do to let all files accessible is to get them back with the data recovery software.

Other storage devices that supported by data recovery tool

The portable hard drive is just one of the portable storage devices to save files in this day and age. What's more, information saved on other storage devices also could be retrieved by data recovery program after being lost due to some reasons. There are some of them below: Pen drive, memory card, such as SD card, memory stick, MMC card and so on.

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