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Recover data off 1 TB western digital external drive which is corrupted
The western digital 1TB external drive may be corrupted sometimes when we use it, such as read files saved on it. Then what we can do at that time if those contents were vital and we need to view them as soon as possible? Do not worry, as we may be able to get the information saved on that WD external hard disk drive at the previous time back if it was corrupted. And the possible way to restore those original files is to perform corrupted external hard drive recovery.
Case of western digital external hard drive get corrupted
I bought my western digital external hard drive months ago, but it was corrupted last night. I did not know why the external drive get corrupted, and all I get is that I can not access files saved on the WD external HDD at the original time any more. Is there anything I can do to restore those previous contents? Someone told me that I should format the corrupted external hard drive, but I know there would be nothing I want after the format. Can you kindly help me? -Richard from Washington
How to retrieve data from corrupted WD external hard disk drive with data recovery software
We can ask the data recovery software for help to perform the WD external drive corrupted recovery, because it is the tool to get lost files back from memory devices, such as the external hard drive. By the way, it is not hard to use the data restoration tool, and here are its steps as follows:
Recover data from external hard drive
Preparation: Connect the external hard drive to your computer and download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Attention should be paid during the process of corrupted external HDD recovery
We can get that it is easy and simple to perform the corrupted external HDD data recovery under the help of data recovery program. It is true, to some extent. But we may fail to restore files needed from the corrupted western digital external hard drive with data recovery tool. What is the reason? As a matter of fact, it may because that we have done something wrong on the corrupted portable hard drive. Here is something we should keep in mind during the process of corrupted external drive data recovery. Here are some of them below:
1. Do not format the corrupted WD external hard disk drive. Generally speaking, we need to format the western digital external hard drive when it is corrupted if we want to keep using it, such as save new contents on the external drive. It is better not to format the corrupted portable hard drive immediately though we need to. We should perform the corrupted external hard drive at first and then format it in case of the failure of files recovery.
2. Do not save new files on the western digital external hard drive until the end of data recovery. We can not save new files or folders on the WD external hard drive if it was corrupted, in fact. But we may store new information on the portable hard disk drive if formatted it. If we happened to format the corrupted external hard disk drive by error, we should not save new data on it but to perform the data recovery.
3. Choose the computer hard disk as the location to store files to be retrieved. We need to select the location to save files which have been picked up in step 4 during the data recovery process, and it is better to choose one of the computer hard disk drives as the location to save those contents. And then we can remove those files to the WD external hard drive when it is normal to use.
4. Other things we should take notice of.
Types of files can be restored from WD corrupted external drive
Files like pictures, videos, songs, movies, power point, and others may be saved on the western digital external hard drive in daily life. We may be able to retrieve all of them from the portable hard drive with data recovery program if it was corrupted.
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