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Reformatted External Hard Disk Drive Data Recovery

What would you do if happen to format the external hard disk drive by mistake? Some people may format the external hard disk drive at the second time, maybe because they think those lost files could be retrieved after that. But those losses can not be got back by that reformatting way. What should we do if we want to restore information form the external hard disk drive after reformatting it? Don’t worry, as we can get files needed back from the reformatted external hard disk drive.

Case of reformatting the external hard disk drive

Please help me. I formatted my external hard disk drive the other day and all files saved on it have been lost. What makes things worse; I formatted again in the second day. Could files be got back form the external hard disk drive after being reformatted? Those files are very valuable and useful for me, and I can not afford to lose them. I have tried that the action of reformatting is useless to restore the lost data form the formatted external hard disk drive. Anyone could kindly help me? -Yu from Utah

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

Don't worry too much if format the external hard disk drive at the second time, because there is still chance for us to get the lost files back form the reformatted external hard disk drive. What we can do is ask the data recovery software for help. Here are the steps as follows to show us how to restore data with data recovery tool:

Recover data from reformatted external hard disk

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the external hard disk drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.

1Download and launch the data recovery software on the computer.
2Plug the external hard disk drive which is formatted again into the exact computer.
3Operate the data retrieval program. Then choose the recovery model and object disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan, and select the needed to recover.

Related formatting problems to external hard disk drive

We will lose data saved on the external hard disk drive after formatting it. What makes things worse, we format it again later. Format and reformat is two of the actions that lead to the files lost form external hard disk drive among those data loss events. There are many other data loss situations in daily life. And just as for formatting, there are various related data loss problems we may meet. Here are some of them below:

1. The external hard disk drive is not formatted. We may meet external hard disk drive not formatted error some times. System will prompt us that you need to format the disk drive before you can use it if we happen to encounter that problem. We lose files saved on it originally because we can not open the external hard disk drive when it is in not formatted error.

2. The external hard disk drive raw problem. Like external hard disk drive not formatted error, we also can not open the external hard disk drive when it is raw file system and cause us lose data saved on it. What’s more, one of the reasons of raw external hard disk drive is that the disk drive is not formatted. We can use it after formatting it.

3. The external hard disk drive can not be formatted completely. When we format the external hard disk drive on the computer, system may appear that windows can not complete the format some times. There are some reasons that cause the formatting not available, and we need a formatting tool at that time. We can use data recovery too to restore files firstly at that time.

4. The external hard disk drive is formatted successfully. Like reformatting situation, files saved on the external hard disk drive would be lost after the formatting. But compared with the reformatted external hard disk drive, there is a bigger chance to retrieve data form the formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery program.

5. Other related formatting problems.

Common brands of external hard disk drive

There are a lot of brands of external hard disk drive in the market, so how to pick up one with good quality? Firstly, we should select one form the common manufactures, such as WD, ADATA, Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, and so forth. Secondly, we should buy one in a reliable store.

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