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Formatted external hard drive recovery
Have you ever formatted the external hard drive by mistake or by intention? If we have done such things once, we would know that there is nothing remains on the portable hard disk drive after the format. What if those original contents on the external hdd are important or crucial? And is there any way to read them again after formatting the external hard drive? As a matter of fact, we can try to get those lost files back from the formatted portable hard drive with data recovery tool.
Example of formatting the external hard drive mistakenly
I lost my files which exist in external hard disk because of format. The portable hard disk drive was formatted because I clicked on the format button by accident the other day. I felt upset at that moment because some files and folders stored on the external hard disk drive at the previous time are useful and vital for me. I have come up with various ways to try to get those losses back, but all failed at last. I really have no idea at present. Can you kindly help me retrieve my losses? -Miranda from Utah
How to retrieve lost files from the formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery software
The possible way to get the lost information back after formatting the external hard disk drive is to use data recovery software, a kind of tool to retrieve the lost data. Then we can perform formatted external hard drive recovery with data recovery tool. The following steps can guide us how to perform it in detail:
Recover files from external hard drive
Preparation: Download the data recovery software and connect the external hard drive. Install it properly and launch the software. Finally, you can select a recovery module.
How to avoid data loss problems when use the external hard drive
It is terrible to format the portable hard disk drive, because we would lose files and folders original completely after the format. What makes things worse is that there are more than one data loss situations when we use the external hard drive, besides the formatted portable external USB case. It is annoying that lose data off external hard drive though we have known that we may be able to get the lost information back, so we should protect data from being lost. Here are some tips to avoid data loss problem as follows:
1. Back up files important frequently. Do you have the habit to back up files which saved on the external hard drive or other storage devices regularly? For example, we can copy files on the external hard drive originally on the computer hard disk drives or other memory devices. The obvious advantage to backup is that we can get them back quickly and easily after losing them by mistake, so try to back up information usually.
2. Use anti-virus software. We may lose files or folders off the portable hard disk drive because of virus infection. For example, the external hard drive would be infected by virus if data saved on it contain harmful matters such as virus and worms, and then files or folders would be inaccessible after the virus infection. We can download and install the anti-virus tool on the external hard drive or on the computer to which portable hard drive inserted.
3. Think twice when delete files off portable hard disk drive. We would delete contents off the external hard drive if they are useless or we want to save new files on it. Or we may format the whole external hard drive in order to delete all contents off it. Before delete data or format the portable hard drive, we should make it clear whether those chose files are not important any more.
4. Other ways to avoid data being lose off the external hard disk drive.
Brands of portable hard drive are supported by data recovery program after format
Common brands of external hard drive such as WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and others are supported by data recovery tool. It means that we can try to ask data recovery program for help after formatting portable hard drive from those brands.
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