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Reformatted Seagate External Disk
If the Seagate external hard disk is formatted, people may format it again later. After reformatting the external hard disk, we can get nothing at all. There is not any file could be retrieved. But we are wrong if we think we will lose those files saved on the external hard disk at the previous time forever after reformatting the external disk. Actually, those lose files can be got back form the reformatted external hard disk. We can ask the data recovery tool for help.
Example of Seagate external hard disk being reformatted
Is there any one of you know the reformatting recover? I reformat the Seagate external hard disk after I have formatted it once by error. I need to restore files now. Files saved on the external hard disk are very useful and important for me, even for my whole family. It is my own false to lose them and I know it, so I want to get them back as soon as possible. But I have no idea and fail to try. What should I exactly do? Any one could kindly help me? -Cosmo from New York
How to restore files from the raw Seagate external hard disk with data recovery software
Data recovery is so helpful that can get lost files and folders back form the external hard disk which has been formatted twice. We can access those lost contents after restore them. By the way, it will not take much time and energy to perform data recovery. The following steps will guide us start to recover information:
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.
Things should be took notice of after formatting the Seagate external hard disk
We have the ability to recover data from the reformatted Seagate external hard disk under the help of data recovery tool. But what we should know is that the reformatting action is not proper. If we format the external hard disk which has been formatted once, there is influence bad to the data recovery. Apart from formatting the external hard disk again, there are some other incorrect actions that also may influence the result of data recovery. We should try to avoid those actions. Here are some of the below:
1. Format the external hard disk twice. We have said that the reformatting action is not supposed, but people may do not know the reason. After we format the external hard disk at the first time, files seems to be erased are still stored on that external hard disk but we can not see them. But they may be erased form the external hard disk permanently if we format it again. In other words, the opportunity to get needed data is reduced after formatting the external hard disk at the second time.
2. Plug the external hard disk which has been formatted out of the computer. If we want to get useful information back after formatting the external hard disk by mistake but have no idea what to do, it is better for us to remove that drive from the computer at that time. Such action is in order to avoid us doing something wrong to the external hard disk whose files have been lost due to formatting.
3. Do not store any new information on the external hard disk after format it. Some people may save new files and folders on the formatted external hard disk before getting what they need from it. As a matter of fact, such action, may do harm to data need to be retrieved. Those new contents may overwrite the original data which seems to be lost. We can not restore them if they have been overwritten.
4. Other related cautions after formatting the external hard disk.
Common brands of external hard disk
We can get needed files back form the Seagate external hard disk after reformatting it accidentally with the help of data recovery tool. Some people ask that can I recover lost information from WD external hard disk or other brands' external hard disk. The answer is certainly yes. Besides Seagate external hard disk, we can restore data form external hard disk of other manufactures, too. For example: WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA
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