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Recover data after format Sony External Hard Drive
Have you ever encountered any problem when use the Sony external hard drive? For example, the portable hard disk drive is formatted by accident? It is very terrible if there are massive files or folders important stored on the external hard drive, because all of them would be erased after the portable hard drive is formatted. What if we can get them back? As a matter of fact, it is possible for us to retrieve those lost information from the formatted external hard drive.
Example of formatting the Sony external hard drive
Can you help me restore the lost data from the formatted Sony external hard drive? I formatted the portable hard disk drive by mistake days ago and I want to get the information saved on it at the previous time back, because they are useful and vital. Three days have past; I can not retrieve any of them. But I still believe that there is a certain way for me to restore lost files form the formatted external hard drive. Can you kindly help me if you have any idea? -Megan from New York
How to retrieve data from the formatted Sony external hard drive with data recovery software
The possible way for us to get lost contents back after formatting the Sony external hard drive is to use data recovery program. It may help us retrieve what we need from the formatted portable hard disk drive just within a few minutes. Here are the steps to formatted external hard drive data recovery 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.
Way to protect files on Sony external hard drive from being lost
Do you have any idea how to protect files and folders stored on the Sony external hard drive from being lost, such as the portable hard disk drive is formatted by accident? It is necessary for us to think of way to protect those original contents on external hard drive in case of losing though we may be able to get them back after losing them with the help of data recovery tool. Here are some precautions below to help us not to lose files on the portable hard drive more than often:
1. Back up the useful data on the Sony external hard drive. The basic step to protect information on the Sony external hard drive from being lost is to back up them. We can get them back quickly and safely after losing them no matter which kind of reasons we meet. For example, we can recover what we need after formatting the portable hard disk drive or deleting files by mistake, or lose those contents because of other reasons.
2. Use the Sony external hard drive correctly. We may lose information from Sony portable hard disk drive due to improper usage. Do you know how to use it correctly? Actually, there are many aspects we need to pay attention to. For example, we should plug the portable hard drive out of computer safely, we should connect the external hard drive to the computer properly, and other things we should keep in mind.
3. Download and install anti-virus software on the Sony external hard drive. We may lose files or folders on the Sony portable hard drive because of virus infection. What we can do before the virus infection is to download and launch anti-virus tool on the external hard drive. As a result, files which contain virus and worms or other harmful matters can not be stored on the portable hard disk drive any more.
4. Other aspects we should take notice of in order to protect data on the Sony external hard drive from being lost.
File types we can recover from the formatted Sony external hard drive
We are able to get pictures files, video files, audio files, word documents and other file types back after formatting the Sony external hard drive. It means that we may be able to retrieve almost all kind of files saved on the portable hard disk drive at the old time. So we can ask data recovery tool for help no matter which kind of files we need to restore after formatting the external hard drive.
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