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Recover data after format Samsung External Hard Drive

Have you know anything about Samsung external hard drive? For example, do you have any idea how to get lost data after formatting the Samsung external hard disk drive? We have to retrieve the lost files after formatting the portable hard disk drive accidentally if they are vital or crucial. It is not impossible for us to get lost information back from the formatted external hard drive, actually. We can ask data recovery software for help in that case.

Case of formatting the Samsung external hard drive

Have you ever used Samsung external hard drive? I need your help to get information back from the formatted Samsung portable hard disk drive. I formatted it by mistake days ago and lost all files stored on it at the previous time. Do you have any idea about portable external usb recovery after format? Those lost files are useful and vital, so I have to restore them with any cost. Is there any flexible way to get the lost information back from the formatted Samsung external hard drive? -Po from LA

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

We can ask data recovery tool for help after formatting the Samsung external hard drive, because it may help us get files saved on the portable hard disk drive at the previous time back at that moment. The following steps will tell us how to recover what we need form the 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.

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Insert the formatted Samsung external hard drive to the same computer
3Run the data restoration program on computer and choose the recovery model and object disk to scan.
4Preview contents in the list after the scan and then pick up the information needed to recover.

Different data loss situations we may meet when use the Samsung external hard drive

Besides the Samsung external hard drive is formatted, we may meet other situations that files or folders stored on it get lost. It means that there are more than one data loss situations we may encounter when use the portable hard disk drive. So the question is can we get the lost data back in other data loss cases like recover files form the formatted portable hard drive? Actually, it is possible for us to perform data recovery in most data loss cases, too. Here are some of them as follows:

1. The Samsung external hard drive shows unformat error. We may lose contents on the portable hard disk drive after formatting it. But do you know we are not able to view files on the external hard drive when it is in not formatted problem? We can not open the portable hard drive when it is unformatted, so we can not see its data. We can use data recovery tool to get its information back and then format the external hard drive in that case.

2. The information on the Samsung portable hard drive is deleted. Deletion is one of the common data loss events we may encounter when use the portable hard disk drive in daily life. Like external hard drive is formatted problem, we can use data recovery program to try to retrieve lost files. By the way, we should not save new data on it until the data recovery is finished.

3. Plug the Samsung external hard drive out of computer directly. We may lose information stored on the portable; hard disk drive if remove it from computer directly. It is possible for us to lose data from external hard drive due to abrupt removal, especially when files on it are in the process of read or write. So we should plug the external hard drive out of computer safely.

4. Other cases that contents lost form Samsung portable hard drive.

Common brands of external hard drive

Do you know WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, and ADATA? Actually, they are the common brands of external hard disk drive, like Samsung. And we can perform data recovery on them and other brands of portable hard drive after formatting them.

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