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Quick Formatted External Hard Disk Drive

Have you ever encountered a quick formatted external hard disk drive accidentally or intentionally? What if you feel regret for your formatting action? For example, you want to get back files and folders from the previously formatted external hard disk drive. What would you do at that moment? In other words, do you know how to retrieve the lost information saved on the external hard disk drive after it being formatted? Data recovery software can help you actually.

Case of quick formatting the external hard disk drive

I need your help. I quick formatted my external hard disk drive before I know there are files important and crucial saved on it. Now I need to get all of them back but be bothered by no possible way. I really do not know whether there is possibility for me to restore all my losses from the quick formatted external hard disk drive. Any one could tell me if my losses could be retrieved and how to start? Any suggestion would be appreciated from the bottom of my heart. –Faying from Detroit

How to retrieve data from external hard disk drive with data recovery software after being quick formatted

It is true that data recovery software can help you get back all your lost files from the quick formatted external hard disk drive. Maybe you are not so clear that understand the restoration way just seeing such a sentence. Don't worry, as the following steps will teach you how to perform it:

Recover data from formatted external hard disk

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Insert the external hard disk to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.

1Connect the formatted external hard disk drive to the computer.
2Download and launch the data recovery software on the computer.
3Run the software and choose the recovery model, then select the external hard disk as the target disk.
4Preview the recoverable contents in the list after scanning and choose the files you need to recover.

Attention to which should be paid when external hard disk drive is quick formatted

We can get it from the steps about how to retrieve lost files from the formatted external hard disk drive above that the data recovery software is easy to use and there are just 5 steps. Though simple it is, it is also possible for us to make mistakes which may lead to reducing of the opportunity of data recovery. So we should take notice of the following aspects:

1. Do not reformat the external hard disk drive. You should not format the formatted external hard disk drive again or more times if you need to restore files from it. You may format it again when you tried to find out way to get back lost data on it, and reformatting is one of those trails.

2. Do not save new data on the formatted external hard disk drive. Such an action is also should be avoided. You may have backup some lost files and remove them to the external hard disk drive after is being formatted. But you should not do so if you have not all needed backup.

3. Do not download and mount the data recovery tool on the formatted external hard disk drive. Data restoration tool is also a kind of new data, so it is better to store it on the computer disks available.

4. Do not store the recoverable contents on the formatted external hard disk drive. The restorable files are retrieved one by one not all together, so you should save them on the computer disk and remove them to the external hard disk drive after all needed data being restored.

Different external hard disk drive formatted situations

You may be asked to choose quick format or complete format when you intend to format your external hard disk drive. Both of them could format your external hard disk drive ands erase all information saved on it. Generally, there are some different formatted external hard disk drive situations we may meet. Here are they below:

1. Accidental formatting. You may click the format or format all button suddenly which you do not want to operate. For instance, you just intend to delete some useless data, rename files, open it, and so forth.

2. Intentional formatting. Formatting action can delete all files saved on the external hard disk drive quickly and effectively, so you may format your external hard disk drive in order to delete all your documents forever as you think. What’s more, you may format the external hard disk drive on the purpose of anti virus.

3. Be asked to format the external hard disk drive when it becomes RAW drive. The common situation is that system pops out you need to format the disk in drive R before you can use it, and do you want to format it now. Consequently, you format the external hard disk drive and lose files on it.

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