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Recover deleted files from Crucial External Hard Drive

Do you know deleted files recovery? For example, do you have any idea how to get the information which saved on the Crucial external hard drive previously back after deleting it? We may feel anxious after deleting contents off portable hard disk drive if they are useful or important. Actually, there is a piece of news that can make us happy. The good news is that we may be able to get the deleted information back from the external hard disk drive.

Case of information on the Crucial external hard drive is deleted

My files on Crucial external hard drive were deleted by my brothers accidentally. They told me that they clicked on the delete all button by mistake and then the whole information on the portable hard drive was disappeared quickly. They promised to get the lost files back within two days. But three days past, I see nothing on the external hard disk drive at present. Those contents on the external hard drive are vital and precious for me, so I need to get them back as soon as possible. Can you help me to perform deleted information recovery from portable external usb? -Joe from LA

How to retrieve deleted files from the Crucial external hard drive with data recovery software

The way to get the deleted files back from the Crucial external hard drive is to use the data recovery software, a tool to recover lost information after formatting, deleting, etc. We may be able to view the deleted data few minutes later with the help of data recovery program. The following steps can help us get more information about external hard disk drive deleted recovery:

Recover deleted files off external hard disk

Preparation: Connect the external hard disk to your PC properly. Then, download and install the data recovery software. Launch the software adn select a recovery module.

1Connect the Crucial external hard disk drive to the computer.
2Download the data recovery software and install it on the computer, too.
3Run the data recovery program on computer and choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents if they are photo files or the similar and pick up the data wanted to recover.

Way to use the Crucial external hard drive correctly in case of data loss

We will lose files and folders which saved on the Crucial external hard disk drive after deleting them, and we may lose contents off portable hard drive due to other events, too. For example, we may lose data which stored on the external hard disk drive at the old time because of the incorrect usage to the portable hard disk. So we should be more than careful in order to avoid the data loss problems though we may be able to get the lost information back just like in the deleted files case. Here is the guidance as follows:

1. Do not use the Crucial external hard disk drive when the concerned computer is in low power. The computer would be closed suddenly if the power supply is not enough. Do you know it is dangerous if the portable hard disk drive is connected to the computer and it is working at that time? As a matter of fact, we may lose files form the external hard drive due to the power failure. So it is better not to use the external hard disk drive when the power of computer is low.

2. Do not connect the Crucial portable hard disk drive to the computer when the latter is closed. The proper time to insert the external hard disk drive to the computer is when the computer is fully opened. It means that we should not plug the portable hard drive into the computer when it is closed or in the process of opening in case of losing data from external hard drive. As the same, we should remove the external hard disk drive from the computer safely, too.

3. Do not store the weird files on the Crucial external hard drive. We may find that some files contain weird matters such as suspicious words in the name or others when we need to save them on the computer. Generally speaking, we should not store data like them above on the external hard disk drive, because those suspicious files may include virus and worms and then infect the portable hard drive and cause data loss problem at last.

4. Other guidance to use the Crucial external hard disk drive correctly.

Memory devices can be performed data recovery

We may delete data saved on other storage devices besides external hard disk drive, such as memory card( SD card, SDHC card, SDXC card, CF card, TF card, memory stick and other kind of memory cards(, USB flash drive, and other memory devices. Actually, we may be able to retrieve the deleted files form them, too.

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