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Reformatted LaCie External Hard Drive by mistake

Are you feel upset when reformat the LaCie external hard drive by mistake? Actually, we do not need to feel terrible or sad after reformatting the portable hard drive by accident, as we may be able to recover lost information later. How to recover them, then? We can ask data recovery software for help. It can help us retrieve what we need from the reformatted external hard drive if it can scan them and then we can preview them normally. Here is an example of reformatting external hard drive:

Case of reformatting the LaCie external hard drive

Have you ever used LaCie external hard drive? What's more, can you help me recover lost data from the reformatted LaCie external hard drive? I reformatted my portable hard drive which from LaCie the other day and then lost all contents on it. I did not know what should be done to restore lost files from the reformatted external hard drive. I hope someone can help me get them back, because they are vital and crucial for me. Is there any one can kindly help me? -Olsson from New York

How to recover data from the reformatted LaCie external hard drive with data recovery software

There is a possible way for us to solve problems that external hard drive is reformatted like example above. We can ask data recovery tool for help in that case, and it may help us get what we need back from the reformatted portable hard disk drive. Here are the steps as follows to show us the detail information to data recovery:

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.

1Plug the reformatted external hard drive to the computer.
2Download the data recovery software and launch it on the computer.
3Run the data recovery tool on the computer and then choose recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview contents displayed in the list after the scan and then pick up the normal and wanted to recover.

Various data loss situations when use LaCie external hard drive

Is data recovery software useful in other data loss cases? As we all know, we may met other problems that lose files or folders saved on the LaCie external hard drive when use it in daily life. So can we ask data recovery tool for help in other case besides portable hard disk drive is formatted again? Actually, we also may be able to get what we need back from the aim external hard drive with the help of data recovery program. For example, we can perform data recovery from the following cases:

1. Files saved on the external hard drive are deleted. There are various ways to delete files and folders on the external hard drive. For example, we can delete them directly, or we can delete them with shift delete button clicking, or we can delete them by formatting the portable hard disk drive, or we can delete them with other methods. No matter how to delete them, we can ask data recovery tool for help to try to recover our lost information.

2. The external hard drive is infected by virus. Sometimes we may met such strange situations such as the portable hard disk drive turns to raw file system, or the external hard drive can not be formatted by windows, or files saved on the portable hard disk drive become lost partly or totally, or those original contents turn to messy codes, or other possible case. One of the same reasons of those strange situations is virus infection. We may be able get lost files back in those cases with data recovery tool, too.

3. System error. We may see nothing on the external hard drive when connected to the computer runs windows 7 or other system. What is the matter? It may because there is something wrong to the system. We can connect the portable hard drive to other computer or reinstall system to check whether the previous data is stored on the external hard drive. If we still can not view them,. We can try to restore them with data recovery tool.

4. Other logical data loss situations.

Popular brands of external hard drive

The LaCie is one of the popular brands of external hard drive in the market. There are some other common brands of portable hard disk drive, too. For example, we may see external hard drive from WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so forth.

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