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Get data back from HD WD Hard disc

Have you ever tried to get lost files back from WD hard disc? Those contents may be deleted off the hard drive by mistake, or they may be erased off the hard disc due to the accidental format, or other cases. We need to retrieve those lost files if they were vital or valuable. It is flexible to restore lost information from the WD hard drive, and do you know what the way is exactly? As a matter of fact, we can perform files recovery from WD hard disc with data recovery tool.

Example of losing files off WD hard disk drive

I need to get data back from HD WD hard disc, because I formatted the hard drive by mistake the other day. As a result, all files and folders were erased off the hard disc permanently after the accidental format. But there were some contents saved on the hard disk at the previous time useful and precious, so I want to restore them. Is it possible to get lost data back from the formatted WD hard drive? Please help me, because I have to access those files urgently. –Gorge from New York

How to restore information from western digital hard disc with data recovery software

Actually, the way to retrieve lost data from WD hard disc is to use the data recovery software, a tool to get lost files back from storage devices. So we can try to restore information needed from the WD HD with the help of data recovery tool if lost it by error. Here are the steps as follows to use it in detail:

Recover data from wd hard disk

Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.

1Download and install the data recovery software on the computer.
2Plug the aim WD hard disc into the computer on which the data restoration tool launched.
3Run the data restoration program on the computer and then choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and then pick up the information useful to recover.

Reasons that files lost from the WD hard disc

There are more than one cases in which we need to perform WD HD data recovery. In other words, we may lose information off the WD hard disc due to various reasons. As a matter of fact, it is true that we can delete files off the hard disk drive in many ways. Is it possible to get those files back no matter how they get lost? Actually, we can perform hard drive data recovery in most cases as long as the data was lost logically. Here are some of them as follows:

1. The WD hard disc was formatted. All contents would be erased off the WD hard drive if it was formatted accidentally or intentionally, so it is one of the reasons that format the hard disk to delete information off it. But we do not need to worry too much, because there is a way to get those lost files back after the accidental format. And the exact way is to perform data recovery with the help of data restoration tool.

2. The WD hard drive shows not formatted error and turns to raw file system. We would lose all files and folders off the WD hard disc if formatted it, but we would not be able to access files saved on it at the original time as the same if the hard disk showed not formatted error. For example, disk is not formatted, do you want to format it now. We may see information above when tried to open the hard disc. We should perform files recovery and then format the hard drive in that case.

3. The WD HD was removed from the computer suddenly. One of the reasons of data lose off the WD hard disc is the abrupt removal. It means that we may lose files which stored on the hard disk drive previously if removed it from the computer suddenly. So we should avoid plugging the hard disc out of computer directly or abruptly though we may be able to get the lost data back.

4. Other reasons that information lost off the WD hard disc, such as it is deleted off the drive mistakenly.

Brands of hard disk from which lost data may be recovered

Besides save information on the WD hard disc, we can also store files on the hard drive from other brands, such as WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so forth. What's more, we may be able to get lost data back from nearly all brands of hard disk drive with data recovery tool as long as those lost files have not been overwritten and corrupted yet.

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