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Quick Formatted USB External HDD

Are you bothered by the quick formatted USB external hard disk drive? For instance, you want to get back the lost information from external hard disk drive after being quick formatted but have no idea what to do. You are wrong if you think it is an inflexible thought, because you are able to retrieve all your lost data from the formatted external hard disk drive under the help of data recovery software. It could restore all your losses quickly and safely.

Case of losing files off formatted USB external hard disk drive

I want to know how to get back the lost files and folders from the quick formatted USB external hard disk drive. Anyone could kindly help me? I have a USB external hard disk drive for many years and have saved a lot of precious files on it. But it was quick formatted by my brother accidentally. He has no idea how to get the losses back, neither do I. Those lost files are valuable and need to be retrieved emergently. So I need you guys help. –Lemmon from Utah

How to get back files from the formatted USB external hard disk drive with data recovery software

It will not cost too much time or power to get back the lost files and folders from the quick formatted USB external hard disk drive. You can accomplish it with the help of data recovery software within a short time. Its steps are very easy to understand and perform. Here are they as follows:

Recover data from formatted USB external hard disk

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

1Download the data recovery software and mount it on the computer.
2Connect the formatted external hard disk drive to the computer.
3Run the data retrieval tool and select the recovery model. Then choose the object disk to scan.
4 Preview the contents in the list after the scan and pick up the files need to be restored to recover.

Different situations that lead to USB external hard disk drive is quick formatted

USB external hard disk drive become quick formatted situation could come from many different reasons in daily life. Maybe different people have their own special cases or the same person can meet various quick formatted external hard disk drive problems. As far as I am concerned, there are some common external hard disk drives are formatted situations as follows:

1. USB external hard disk drive is formatted by error. It is one of the most common mistakes happen to external hard disk drive like accidental deletion. But don’t worry, as data recovery tool can fix such trouble that gets back all the lost information.

2. USB external hard disk drive is formatted by intention. You may think that what the problem is now that the external hard disk drive is formatted on purpose. It is kind of reasonable. But you may forget there still are useful files and folders saved on the external hard disk drive or have no backup when you intend to format it, which cause you lose those files.

3. USB external hard disk drive is formatted due to external hard disk RAW file system. System may show you that you need to format the external hard disk drive before you can use it or the external hard disk drive is unformatted when you tried to open it, so you just click on the format option impulsively.

4. Other formatted external hard disk drive scenarios.

Popular brands of USB external hard disk drive

In this day and age, with the development of information technology, the demand of external hard disk drive is more and more urgent. There are more and more manufactures of external hard disk drive in order to conform to such trends. And here are some common brands of external hard disk drive as follows: WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and other popular manufactures.

Tip in case of losing data due to formatted external hard disk

It is better to keep the habit to backup the important or useful files and folders regularly.

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