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Recover data after format Generic External Hard Drive
Do you have any idea what to do after formatting the external hard drive, such as Generic external hard drive? Have you ever thought of data recovery at that time? We may want to recover files stored on the portable hard disk drive after formatting it if those files are important or useful. But do you have any idea how to perform the data recovery after format external hard drive? Actually, we may restore the information needed from the formatted portable hard drive with data recovery software.
Case of formatting the Generic external hard drive
I formatted my brothers' external hard drive, and they were mad at me. The reason is there were a lot of contents which are important for them stored on the portable hard drive at the previous time. I want to fix the mistake I have made. Hours ago I clicked the format button by accident when use the external hard drive and then all contents disappeared soon. Is there any way to get those lost contents from the formatted external hard drive? By the way, the external hard drive is from Generic. –Peter from New York
How to recover data from the formatted Generic external hard drive with data recovery software
We can try to recover files useful or important after formatting the Generic external hard drive with the help of data recovery tool. And we may be able to get all we need back from the formatted portable hard disk drive within a while. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to perform data recovery on formatted external hard drive:
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install the data recovery software to your computer. Then, you need to plug the external hard disk to the computer. Finally, launch the software and select a recovery module.
Caution after formatting the Generic external hard drive to recover more data
We should be more than careful after formatting the Generic external hard drive if there are files useful saved on it needs to be restored. We may be able to get lost information back from the formatted portable hard drive, but we may not be able to recover what we need after formatting the external hard drive, either. There is more chance for us to retrieve lost data from the formatted external hard disk drive if we don't do things incorrectly at that time. Here is the caution we should keep in mind:
1. Do not save data recovery tool and data to be recovered on the formatted Generic external hard drive. We would be asked to choose the location to store data recovery program in step 2 and to save files to be restored in step 5 when recover information useful from the formatted portable hard disk drive according to steps above. The proper action is to select the computer hard disk as the location to save both of them.
2. Other new files also should not be saved on the formatted external hard drive. Besides data recovery tool and information to be retrieved, we should not store new contents on the formatted portable hard disk drive until all files needed have been recovered in case of overwriting. We can not restore them any more if they are overwritten by new data.
3. It is not proper to reformat the formatted Generic external hard drive. Besides new information is forbidden to be stored on the formatted portable hard drive, the reformatting action is not allowed to perform on it, either. We may recover less files from the reformatted external hard drive than formatted one, or we may not be able to restore them.
4. Other aspects we should be careful in order to retrieve more files important from the formatted Generic external hard drive.
Popular brands of external hard drive
Have you ever used other brands of external hard drive, such as the common brands WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA and so on? Actually, we can recover lost information from those brands of portable hard disk with data recovery tool after formatting them by error.
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