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Quick Formatted Sony External Hard Disk Drive

What your response is when you happen to quick formatted the Sony external hard disk drive? Are you feel indifferent, anxious or others? You may feel terrible if there are a number of vital and valuable files saved on the formatted external hard disk drive previously any worry to find way to solve this problem. How to get the lost information back? It is another question. Actually, there is a magic tool for you to restore your losses, which is data recovery software.

Example of quick formatting the external hard disk drive

I need your guys help urgently. I quick formatted the Sony external hard disk drive the other day and I don't realize there are useful data on it until my teacher ask me to hand in my summer work today. All my works saved on the formatted external hard disk drive originally. I don't know how to get them back. Is there any possible way for me to retrieve my losses from the quick formatted external hard disk drive quickly and efficiently? Please kindly help me as soon as possible. –Mori from Canada

Steps to restore lost information from the quick formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery software

Data recovery is your faith friend and helper when you happen to format the external hard disk drive by mistake and need to get the lost files back. It could help you retrieve all your losses within a short time and promise you the data safety and quality. Here are its steps as follows to teach you how to perform:

Recover data from formatted external hard disk

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect the external hard disk to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.

1Plug the formatted external hard disk drive into the computer.
2Download and launch the data recovery software on the computer
3Run the data retrieval program, then choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents after the scan and select the needed to recover.

Improper operations to external hard disk drive when save files on it

Though there are a lot of data losses situations happen to external hard disk drive everyday, some of them could be avoided as long as we use the external hard disk drive correctly. The reason is most data loss cases are caused by improper usage and action to external hard disk drive. We should try to avoid making such mistake in daily life. Here are some common incorrect operations as follows:

1. Plug the external hard disk drive out of computer directly or abruptly. Some people remove the external hard disk drive from computer suddenly and directly without closing the related programs and window in order to save time and convenience. But there is risk to lose files on it unplug in such way. The proper way is to close all related programs and click on the external hard disk drive icon to plug it out of computer safely.

2. Hit or impact the external hard disk drive heavily. The strong hitting and other similar behavior will damage the external hard disk drive badly. If better, we may just lose some or all files and folders saved on it. If worse, the external hard disk drive is unusable and we can neither save new information on it nor access files stored on it previously. So we should never compact it whenever.

3. Power failure. Some time we do not supply enough power to the computer when it is working as the external hard disk drive connected to it. As a result, the computer may close abruptly. We may find there is nothing stored on the external hard disk drive when reboot the computer. How terrible it is. So we should supply enough power to the external hard disk drive in order to avoid losing data.

4. Other similar or different incorrect usages to external hard disk drive that could cause damage to information.

Popular brands of external hard disk drive

With the development of science and technology, the demand of external hard disk is increasing through these years. At first, there are just a few manufactures of external hard disk in the world. But now there are so many different brands of external hard disk that we do not know which to choose in the market. They satisfy our demands fully. Here are some famous brands of external hard disk as follows: WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA

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