Data Recovery --> Data Recovery Howto --> Quick Formatted WD Portable External USB

Quick Formatted WD Portable External USB

Have you ever met a quick formatted WD portable external USB? Do you have any idea how to cope with such problem? For instance, do you know how to get back lost information from the quick formatted portable external USB? No one want to his portable external USB is formatted without consciousness, especially there are massive useful and crucial files saved on it. But it seems inevitable. Actually, there is a tool to salvage those lost files and folders. It is data recovery software.

Example of WD portable external USB being quick formatted

I need your guys help. My portable external USB was quick formatted weeks ago but I realize there are vital documents saved on it till now. So I need to get my losses back but have no idea how to start. I remember someone ever told me that the lost files could be restored from the formatted portable external USB by a certain way but I forget what the way is at present. Anyone among you could kindly tell me what the possible method is? Any advice will be appreciated. –Joe from Utah

How to retrieve files saved on portable external USB after being quick formatted with data recovery software

You are capable of retrieving the lost data from the quick formatted portable external USB quickly and safely. Please do not doubt it, because there is data recovery software to help you. It is a read-only and risk-free tool for recovering lost files from problematic storage devices, such as formatted portable external USB. Here are its steps below to show you how to perform:

Recover data from formatted portable external usb

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

1Connect the quick formatted portable external USB to the computer.
2Download the data recovery software and mount it on the same computer.
3Start the software and choose the recovery mode and aim disk to scan.
4Preview the retrievable contents after scanning and selected the wanted to recover.

Some possible portable external USB is formatted situations

Different people quick format the portable external USB may because of distinct reasons. For example, some people format it by mistake, and some people format the portable external USB in order to delete all its files quickly, and some other various situations. The same point is that they lose information saved on the portable external USB and the losses could be retrieved by data recovery tool. There are some common formatted portable external USB cases as follows:

1. Formatting the portable external USB by intention. We may format the portable external USB to delete all files on it with less time cost than delete them as normal, because we needn’t choose the object files but just need to click on the format all button simply. Absolutely there are other purposes to format the portable external USB and all the losses could be retrieved by data recovery program.

2. Formatting the portable external USB by mistake. The portable external USB may be formatted accidentally by others or by us. The most common situation is that we intend to click on other options in the list but press the format button by error. Fortunately the lost files could be restored by data recovery tool.

3. Formatting the portable external USB due to RAW file system. We may be asked to format the portable external USB by system that you need to format the disk in drive O before you can use it, do you want to format it now when we double click the portable external USB icon to open it on the computer. Just as the system said, we can not use the portable external USB if we do not format it. Don’t hurry, we should get back the lost files from it by data recovery program and then format it if there are important data on it.

File types which could be restored by data recovery program after being lost

As we all know, there are many types of files we will use and could be saved on the portable external USB. So which kind of file types could be retrieved after being lost? Actually, nearly all file types could be restored by data restoration program after being lost, such as photos, videos, audio files, word documents, music, movies, excel documents, and so forth.

Recommended for You

  • Recover formatted data
  • Recover Raw drive data