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Recover data after format ADATA external hard drive

Do you know what should be done after formatting the ADATA external hard drive by mistake? We may intend to get the lost files back if they are useful or precious. But how to recover those lost files after formatting the external hard drive? Or can we retrieve what we need from the formatted portable hard disk drive? Actually, we do not need to worry about it, because we may be able to restore the lost information in that case with the help of data recovery tool.

Example of formatting ADATA external hard drive

Do you know ADATA data recovery after format? I formatted my portable hard drive by mistake the other day and I bought it from ADATA months ago. I have stored a lot of files and folders on the external hard drive since bought it, so want to get them back after formatting the external hard drive by accident. Is there any possible way? Please help me if you have any idea and any suggestion would be appreciated. By the way, I have not performed any operation on the formatted external hard drive. –Donald from Washington

How to restore information from the formatted ADATA external hard drive with data recovery software

We can ask data recovery tool for help to restore lost data after formatting the ADATA external hard drive accidentally or intentionally, indeed. It doesn't matter if we do not know how to perform the formatted data recovery, as the following steps can help us get the idea how to retrieve data from the formatted portable hard disk drive:

Recover data from formatted external hard disk

Preparation: You can download and install the data recovery software on your computer after connecting the external hard disk. Then, you need to run the software and choose a recovery module.

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Connect the formatted ADATA external hard drive to the same computer.
3Open the data restoration program and choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview files available in the list after scanning and then pick up the needed to recover.

Various data loss situations to ADATA external hard drive

Do you wonder that can we perform data recovery with data restoration tool when encounter other data loss cases, such as the information saved on the ADATA external hard drive is deleted by mistake? Besides the formatted external hard drive case, there are some other different situations that contents are erased from the portable hard disk drive or we are not able to access them due to some certain reasons. As a matter of fact, we can try to perform data recovery as well in those situations like external hard drive formatted case. Here are some of them as follows:

1. Files stored on the ADATA external hard drive are deleted. We may delete those contents on the portable hard disk drive by mistake or by intention. There is something we can do if those deleted files or folders are meaningful or useful, that is to try to get them back. We can also ask data recovery tool for help at that moment. It may retrieve what we need from the external hard drive quickly.

2. The ADATA external hard drive is infected by virus. There may be nothing on the external hard drive if it is infected by virus or worms. It means that we may lose information on the portable hard drive due to virus attacks. Actually, there are other possible results after the external hard drive is infected. For example, the portable hard disk drive may become raw file system and can not be used normally before being formatted. Data recovery tool is useful in this case, too.

3. Data lost from ADATA external hard drive due to power failure. We may not be able to view files needed on the external hard drive after the computer closed abruptly when the portable hard drive connected to it. One of the reasons of computer abrupt close is power failure. So we may lose information saved on the external hard drive because of power failure.

4. Other logical data loss cases to when use ADATA external hard drive.

File types may be retrieved successfully from formatted ADATA external hard drive

We may just want to get the image files back, but other may intend to recover video files or other file types from the formatted ADATA external hard drive. Can all of us get what we need back after formatting the portable hard disk drive? Actually, we may be able to retrieve most file types with the help of data recovery program, such as pictures, movies, songs, videos, audios, word documents, excel documents, and so forth.

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