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External hard drive was formatted by mistake
How much do you know about data recovery after format? For example, can we perform data recovery after format the external hard drive by mistake? Then how to perform it if we can? As a matter of fact, we can try to get the lost information back from the formatted portable hard disk and the exact way is to use data recovery software, which is read-only. Then we may be able to view files on the external hard drive at the previous time normally after the files recovery.
Case of formatting the external hard drive by accident
I make a mistake and I had no idea how to fix it. I formatted my external hard drive accidentally days ago and all files and folders stored on it originally were deleted after the format. I wanted to unformat it but I did not know how to do. Contents on the portable hard disk drive are useful and crucial for me, so I needed to get them back. I know I can perform portable hard disk accidental formatted recovery, but have no idea how to perform it in detail. Can you kindly help me? -Raven from LA
How to retrieve files from the formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery software
The exact way to retrieve contents from the external hard drive after format is to use data recovery software, a tool to get the lost files back. By the way, it is easy and simple to use the data recovery program to restore data needed from the formatted external hdd, the following steps can help us know more detailed information:
Recover files from formatted external hard drive
Preparation: Plug the external HDD to your computer and download the data recovery software. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
Different cases that the external hard drive is formatted
We may format the external hard drive due to different reasons, because we may meet different problems which the portable hard disk drive need to be formatted before we can use it or some of us format the external hdd just due to accident. So here the question is whether we can try to recover lost information which erased off the external hard drive due to the format reason in all cases? As a matter of fact, we can perform formatted external hard drive recovery in most cases. Here are some of them as follows:
1. Raw external hard drive error. We may see the file system of external hard disk drive is raw after double clicking on the disk properties of it. What’s more, both the free space and used space are 0 byte in that case. The expression of raw portable hard disk drive is that we can not open it to read files saved on it at the previous time or store new data on it. We have to format the raw external hard drive before we can use it, actually. So we may format the external hard drive due to the raw file system problem.
2. Windows can not complete the format problem. We may format the external hard drive by accident and click the quit button after recognizing it. Unfortunately, we may see such prompt that windows can not complete the format during the format process if the computer runs windows system. Then we need the format tool to format it completely if we want to keep using the portable hard disk drive.
3. Accidental format situation. One of the most common data loss cases is the accidental or abrupt format to the external hard drive. We may press the quick format or format button by mistake sometimes because of carelessness. We may be able to get the lost files back as long as not using the portable hard disk after the format with big chance.
4. Other cases that the external hard disk drive was formatted which lead to the data loss.
Files can be previewed during the formatted external hdd file recovery
We can preview the contents displayed in the list after scanning, it is good for us. But actually, it not means that we can preview all file types after the scan. File types like pictures, word documents and the similar file types can be previewed only. But files like videos, movies and other can not be previewed.
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