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Recover data after format LaCie External Hard Drive
We may format the external hard drive by mistake or by intention some times. Let us take the LaCie external hard drive as example today. Do you know what we can do after formatting the LaCie portable hard disk drive? As a matter of fact, we can try to get the lost data back at that time. In order to recover what we want from the formatted external hard drive, we need to ask data recovery tool for help, as it may help me restore files needed from the formatted portable external usb.
Example of formatting the LaCie external hard drive by mistake
I have a LaCie external hard drive and I formatted it by mistake one day ago. I felt upset because there are a lot of contents saved on the external hard drive important and precious, but all of them are erased after the portable hard disk is formatted. Is there any way for me to get the lost data back from the formatted LaCie external hard drive? I hope I can view them as soon as possible. Anyone can kindly help me? Any help would be appreciated. –Patrick from New York
How to restore files with data recovery software after formatting the LaCie external hard drive
It is helpful to get the lost content back with the help of data recovery software from the formatted LaCie external hard drive, because it can scan whether the lost information is still saved on the formatted portable hard drive. And then it can recover them as long as it can scan those files. Here are the steps as follows:
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.
Situations that data lost from the LaCie external hard drive
Have you ever encountered other data loss cases besides the formatted LaCie external hard drive when use it? As a matter of fact, there are some other different data loss situations we may meet when use the portable hard disk drive. What if those lost files in that case are very valuable? What can we do then? Actually, like formatted LaCie external hard drive case, we can try to restore those lost contents from the formatted portable hard disk with data recovery software in most cases. Here are some of them below:
1. Accidental or intentional deletion. One of the common data loss situations is the information on the LaCie external hard drive is deleted by mistake or by intention. No matter which kind of situation is, we would lose them if we click on the delete button to those files. Fortunately, we can try to recover them if they are important. Actually, it is also possible for us to recover files with data recovery tool after deleting them.
2. Abrupt removal. We may lose information on the LaCie external hard drive because of abrupt removal, which means that we may lose files if plug the portable hard disk drive out of computer suddenly. We should avoid such behavior in case of losing files though we may not meet data loss trouble by that. We can ask data recovery program for help too if those lost contents are important.
3. System error. We can not use it normally if the file system of LaCie external hard drive is raw. As a result, we can not view files saved on it at the previous time. Actually, raw is kind of system error and should be formatted before we can use the portable hard disk drive normally. But we should perform data recovery at first before format it if those original contents are useful.
4. Other data loss problems to LaCie external hard drive, such as virus infection.
Storage devices that supported by data recovery tool
We can perform data recovery on formatted LaCie external hard drive with data recovery tool. As the same, we can also recover lost information with data recovery program from the memory card, such as SD card, MMC card, CF card, memory stick, XD picture card, and so forth, hard disk, pen drive, and other storage devices after formatting them.
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