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Data Recovery Software from Formatted External USB Hard Disk

Recently I have seen lots of people are talking about data recovery softwares referring to its functions or efficiency. And the original reason why this topic now is so popular is viewed as data loss. Speaking of data loss, this is not a new issue for us. Data loss can occur on computer hard disk drives and on external hard disk drives(like USB flash or pen drives etc.). No matter how good the qualities of data storage equipments are, as the sum of data which have been kept on them increases, there still are some possibilities to lose the data. And various of utility softwares, operating systems, virus, Trojan horses and other elements are the causes which can probably lead more serious data loss or data damage. Therefore, data recovery software is the solution now.

What is data recovery software?

Data recovery software is a category of software which particularly deals with varieties of data loss situations. For instance: carelessly deleted data from hard disk drives or USB hard disks, data loss due to formating the hard disk drives or USB hard disks, hard disk drives or USB hard disks have corruptions, mechanical damage existing on hard disk drives and so on.

Where can we get recovery software?

There is a good deal of data recovery softwares on the internet that you can very easily find by just putting the key words in the search bar. Some of them are freewares, and you might encounter some softwares which ask you for a little amount of money. In my opinion, you can firstly try the free one, if it can work well, then you are able to save the money. Here i would like to recommend some free ones to you.

1. Drive Rescue 1.9d

2. Undelete Plus 3.0.5.334

3. Recover My Files

4. Power Data Recovery 4.5.6

5. Mini Tool

6. EasyRecovery Pro 7.4.262

7. Renee Undelete

8. FreeFastRecovery 2.1

9. FinalData

10. Recuva

How does the data recovery software work?

In order to let you understand the theory more easily, i need to start it from the first step. Actually after people deleted or formatted the hard disk drives( I will use USB hard disk as example below), the data have not been literally cleaned up. The computer just labeled them as "deleted", and put them on the "deleted list" invisibly, which means the computer pretended not recognizing the data. By doing this, the computer can make more rooms for our new data. But when the new data( no matter what kind of files ) are put on this USB hard disk drive, the old potentially existing ones are really replaced without a trace left. Thereby, you better pay more attention on this point named overwrite. So what does our data recovery software needs to do is scanning this formatted USB hard disk drive, and then it bypasses the operating system. When it reaches the"deleted list", it reads the lost data and recover them back on the USB hard disk drive visibly.

Any other features of data recovery software?

They can recover any brands of USB hard disk drive.

They can fit in any computer system.

They can deal with any types of files.

They can face any kinds of format issues.

They can redeem data from any data storage devices.

They can fix raw condition USB hard disk drives.

They can work quickly that only need few minutes.

They are easy to manipulate, all you need to do is click the mouse few times.

How about the results of retrieving data by data recovery software?

This kind of data recovery software is efficient and easy-to-use. Those people who once applied them to getting the information back commended that they almost restored all their data back and they are very convenient to use. Currently the data recovery software has already gained a large amount of accolades and cognitions by the great jobs they can produce.

Successful example :

"This morning I was planning to put some study materials on my USB hard disk drive from my PC, during this time I found out that the available space of my USB hard disk drive is already insufficient. So I wanted to sort out some space for the future usage. However I just formatted it before making the backups, which is really stupid. Consequently I got all my information on it disappeared. I asked my uncle who is a typical computer buff for viable suggestion, and he told me to use data recovery software retrieving my lost data. I downloaded a free one from internet and followed the steps it provided. Just around 40 minutes later i restored all my data back. This is a great software, i have already introduced it to my other careless friends."

Recover Data after Formatting External USB Hard Disk

After formatting external hard drive, you need to rely on data recovery software to retrieve files lost due to formatting. Before running data recovery software, you cannot write any new data to the formatted external hard drive.

Recover data from formatted external usb hard disk

Preparation: Download and install the data recovery software. Then, connect the external USB hard disk to your computer and run the software.

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