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Recover pictures from the HDD damaged 1.5 Tb WD hard drive

We can save numerous pictures files on the WD 1.5TB hard disk drive. What’s more, we can access any one of them easily and quickly wherever we are as long as there is computer. But have you ever thought such situation that the WD hdd is damaged? Image files and other contents saved on the hard disk drive at the previous time would become inaccessible at that time. But do not worry, because we can try to recover those photos from the damaged WD hard disk drive.

Case of losing photos off damaged WD 1.5TB hard drive

Can you kindly tell me how to recover pictures from the HDD damaged 1.5 TB WD hard drive? I had no idea how the hard disk drive was damaged, and all I know was that the hard drive was unusable and there was no way to access files stored on it at the original time. There were some photos which important and precious for me, so I want to get them back to view them again. But I do not know how to retrieve them? I need you guys to help me, please. Thank you in advance. –Bill from Washington

How to retrieve lost image files from the damaged WD 1.5TB hdd with data recovery software

What we need is data recovery software in order to retrieve lost image files from the damaged WD 1.5 TB hard disk drive. And we may be able to access those previous pictures quickly, because it will not cost time too much to perform pictures recovery from WD hard drive. Here are the steps as follows:

Recover data from WD Hard drive

Preparation: Download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.

1Download and install the data recovery software on the computer.
2Operate the data restoration program on the exact computer.
3Choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and then pick up pictures needed to recover.

Situations that the WD 1.5TB hard disk drive is damaged

It is known to all of us that files saved on the WD hard disk drive are inaccessible when it is damaged, so we need to perform damaged hard disk drive recovery to get those original contents back if they were useful or important. Do you know in which situation the WD external drive is damaged? Or in other words, do you have any idea why the hard disk drive would be damaged? The following cases are some of them:

1. There are bad sectors on the WD hard disk drive. The hard disk drive would show damaged problem if there were bad sectors on it. Some of us may intend to fix those bad sectors, but it is better not to perform such operation on the corrupted hard disk at once if there were contents on the hard disk drive at the previous time need to be retrieved. What we should do at first is to perform files recovery according to steps above.

2. The WD HDD is raw file system. The hard disk drive is damaged and we can not access information stored on it at the original time either if it was raw file system. Raw is one kind of file system, like fat32 and so on, but the difference between them is that raw is a system error and can not be used normally. But we can perform raw files system recovery to restore its previous files, too.

3. The WD hard drive is infected by virus. Have you ever met the virus infection problem when store files or folders on the WD hard disk drive? We would know that the hard disk may become unusable if it was infected as long as we have experienced it. But still do not worry, because we can try to perform data recovery, too.

4. Other situations that the WD hard disk drive is damaged and cause data loss problem.

Brands of external hard disk can be performed photos recovery if damaged

After perform damaged WD hard disk drive pictures recovery, we may want to know whether we can perform photos recovery on other brands of hard drive if they were damaged. Obviously, the answer is yes, we can perform files recovery on the hard disk which is from Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and others if they were damaged.

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