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Quick Formatted WD External HD

Do you have any idea how to unformat the western digital external hard disk? Unformatting could be understood to get back lost information from the formatted external hard disk. So do you know how to retrieve data saved on the external hard disk after being quick formatted? There is a way to fulfill the files restoration, indeed. Have you ever heard of it or have you ever tried to reclaim the losses by that way? Actually, it is data recovery software.

Example of formatting the western digital external hard disk accidentally

My western digital external hard disk had been formatted when my friend returned it to me last night. He told me that he quick formatted it by mistake and he was not able to get all contents back when I asked him. What should I do? I forgot to backup data saved on the external hard disk when I lent it to my friend. But I can not lose them honestly. I have asked many people I knew for help but no one can tell me how to restore my lost information. Help me, please. –Teresa from Western

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

You will feel amazing when all your lost data be retrieved from the quick formatted external hard disk by data recovery software. Yes, it seems unbelievable to some extent. But you do can get back all the losses on external hard disk when it is formatted with the assistant of data recovery software with a few steps. Here are its steps as follows:

Recover data from formatted external hard disk

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

1Insert the formatted external hard disk to the computer.
2Download and launch the data recovery software on the same computer.
3Run the data retrieval program to open it. Select the recovery model and aim disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after scanning. Preview them and choose the wanted to recover.

Other kinds of storage devices that can also suffer quick formatted matter

External hard disk is just one of the storage devices to help people save massive files and folders with convenience. It means that there are other kinds of storage devices to store data fro us, because external hard disk just could be inserted to computer or PC. What if we want to expand the internal memory of other digital devices, such as phones, cameras, music players, and so forth? So we need other different kind of storage devices to satisfy our needs. But they also may meet quick formatted problem. Here are some of them below:

Pen drive, Smart Media(SM), Compact Flash (CF), Multi Media Card (MMC), Secure Digital (SD), micro SD card, mini SD card, Memory Stick, XD-Picture Card (XD) and others.

What’s more, the storage media itself such as phone can encounter formatted situation as well. Nowadays, some phones are not supported to insert the SD card, mini SD card or micro SD card to it. It just owns internal memory.

How to recover data efficiently with the help of data restoration program

We can get back our lost files and folders from the formatted external hard disk with the help of data recovery software. But do you know how to retrieve the losses efficiently? The most important principle is that do not let the original files be overwritten. You can restore as much as data you want from the formatted external hard disk as long as they have not been overwritten. So you should not save any new data on the formatted external hard disk including the data recovery tool and the retrievable files on it before all needed information be got back. In addition, the data recovery software also allows you to recover data when format the external hard disk RAW drive error.

Simple introduction to external hard disk

External hard disk is a portable storage device. Compared with computer disk, the most obvious feature of external hard disk is portability. So it is also called mobile hard disk. We don't need to carry with a huge pile of files or take the computer when go home after work or go to business travel. What we need to carry is just a tiny external hard disk. Small as it is, the external hard disk has the ability to save files even with 4TB. As a result, most people who are working prefer to choose the external hard disk as the necessary equipment both in their and life.

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