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Quick Formatted Maxtor External HDD
What brand is your external hard disk drive? Have you ever used Maxtor external hard disk drive? What would you do if you happened to quick format your Maxtor external hard disk drive? Maybe it should be asked that do you have any idea how to get back information from the external hard disk drive after it being quick formatted. Such as your important photos, office documents, and so forth. Actually, you can retrieve all your loss from the formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery software.
Case of quick formatting the Maxtor external hard disk drive
I bought a Maxtor external hard disk drive a few years ago, so there are massive files and folders have been saved on it through these years. More importantly, it never goes wrong for a second when I use it. But things terrible happened last night. I quick formatted the Maxtor external hard disk drive by mistake. As a result, all files and folders saved on it have been lost without any backup. Is there any way for me to get back my lost information? -Jeff from Bismarck
How to retrieve files from formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery software
Don't worry if you happen to meet quick formatted external hard disk drive problem, because you are capable of getting all lost files back as long as you can get some help and data saved on it originally has not been overwritten. The help you need is data recovery software. Here are its steps as follows:
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.
Notice of which should be took when restore data from formatted external hard disk
We should not do anything without carefulness, and neither does the data recovery. It means that we should be very careful during the process of data retrieval, even after the external hard disk drive being quick formatted at once. The correct action will guarantee the success of data recovery, but the wrong operation will put a second damage to files saved on the formatted external hard disk drive. Here are some cautions below you should take notice of:
1. Do not store any new data on the external hard disk drive after it being quick formatted. It is not right to save new files on the formatted external hard disk drive before the previously lost data has been retrieved. As the new information may overwritten the original lost data, and there is no possibility for you to get back the lost files once they are been overwritten.
2. Do not format the external hard disk drive one more time or more times. Maybe you intend to unformat your external hard disk drive by reformatting it, which is not the correct operation at all. The chance of lost data retrieval may be reduced because of the reformatting action.
3. Do not save the data recovery tool on the formatted external hard disk drive when choose the location to launch it after downloading. The reason is that data recovery program also belongs to one kind of new files.
4. Do not store the recoverable files on the formatted external hard disk drive before all of them have been retrieved. You can save them on the computer disks and remove them to the external hard disk drive after you can make sure all needed have been got back.
Brief introduction to Maxtor
Maxtor Corporation is one of the best suppliers among all companies which supply information memory case. It is founded in 1982, and its head quarter located in Milpitas, California. The main product of Maxtor is hard disk drive, and it is one of the most manufactures of the hard disk drive in the world. Those hard disk drives can be used at home, office and large enterprises. In 2005, Maxtor Corporation was purchased by Seagate. By the way, Seagate is also a famous brand of external hard disk drive, hard disk, and other storage devices.
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