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Reformatted ADATA external hard drive by mistake

Have you ever reformatted the external hard drive by mistake, such as ADATA external hard drive? You may have thought of recover lost information after formatting the formatted portable hard disk drive again by error, if those lost files are precious or valuable. Then what should we do to get the lost information back from the reformatted external hard drive? Do not worry, as we may be able to restore all we need from the reformatted portable external usb with data recovery software.

Example of reformatting the ADATA external hard drive

It is so terrible to reformat the ADATA external hard drive by accident; because I remember that it is possible to get lost files back after formatting the portable hard disk drive. How about reformatting the external hard drive? Is it still flexible for us to restore information from the reformatted external hard drive? I do not know, actually. But the fact is that I have to get some contents saved on the reformatted external hard drive at the previous time back, as they are crucial. Can you help me? Alfred from New York

How to restore data from the reformatted ADATA external hard drive with data recovery software

It is true that we may able to get the lost files needed back from the reformatted ADATA external hard drive with data recovery software. It can help us scan files on the external hard drive after reformatting it and then recover them. Here are the steps as follows to recover lost data from reformatted portable hard disk drive:

Recover data from reformatted external hard disk

Preparation: You can download and install the data recovery software on your computer after connecting the external hard disk. Then, you need to run the software and choose a recovery module.

1Download and install data recovery software on the computer.
2Connect the reformatted ADATA external hard drive to the computer.
3Open the data recovery program and then choose the recovery model and object disk to scan.
4Pick up contents to recover after the scan. We can preview them if they are photos, word documents.

Data loss problem related to format matter

Have you ever met other data loss problems that related to the format matter? We have known that we would lose all contents stored on the ADATA external hard drive at the old time if the external hard drive is formatted, and the result is the same if the portable hard disk drive is reformatted accidentally or intentionally. But as a matter of fact, there are other kinds of data loss situations which due to format case when we use the external hard drive. How many of them have you ever met? We can still perform data recovery in other cases, and here are some of them below:

1. The external hard drive is in not formatted error. Disk is not formatted; do you want to format it now? Or you have to format the disk in drive O before you can use it, do you want to format it now? Sentences above show that the external hard drive is in not formatted problem if we see them when try to open the portable hard disk drive. The result of external hard drive get into not formatted error is information on it would be inaccessible.

2. The external hard drive can not be formatted. Sometimes we may not be able to format the external hard drive when click on the format or format all button by mistake or by intention. What’s more, computer operating system may show us that windows can not format the external hard disk drive. Then we may find that we can not access files saved on the external hard drive at the original time. So we lose them in this case.

3. The external hard drive is formatted by error or by intention. We have known that there would be nothing saved on the external hard drive if it is reformatted. So we can conclude that we would lose files on the portable hard drive if reformat it. but as a matter of fact, we lose those original contents when we format the external hard drive at the first time.

4. Other cases. By the way, the external hard drive shows raw file system means that it is in not formatted error.

Common brands of external hard drive we can perform data recovery

Besides ADATA external hard drive from which we may be able to get lost files back after reformatting it, we can also perform data recovery on portable hard disk drive from other brands while being reformatted by mistake or by intention. For example, we can ask data recovery program for help after reformatting the external hard drive from WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, and others.

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