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Reformatted Transcend External Hard Drive by mistake

Have you ever reformatted the Transcend external hard drive by accident? What have you seen after that? We would get that there is nothing changed after formatting the portable hard drive again compared with the situation that format the external hard drive once. What should we do to recover lost information after reformatting the external hard disk drive? Don’t worry, as we can ask data recovery tool for help to retrieve what we need from the reformatted external hard drive.

Case of Transcend external hard drive being reformatted accidentally

Can you help me recover data from the reformatted external hard drive? I formatted the Transcend external hard drive at the second time after formatting it once by mistake. I have no idea how to restore files from the formatted external hard drive; neither do I know how to recover data from the reformatted portable hard disk drive. Do you have any suggestion what should I do? I have to recover those lost files no matter how long it will take. Help me, please. –Lois from New York

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

Data recovery tool have the function to scan files on the external hard drive after reformatting it and then recover them if they are still saved on the portable hard drive, so we may be able to recover lost data from the reformatted external hard disk drive. The following steps will help us know better about it:

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.

1Insert the reformatted external hard drive to the computer.
2Download data recovery software and install it on the computer.
3Open the data recovery tool and then choose the recovery model and target disk to scan.
4Preview the contents in the list after the scan and select them to recover.

Attention should be paid after formatting the Transcend external hard drive

Actually, it is not supposed to format the external hard drive again after formatting it. The reason is that we may be able to restore lost data from the formatted portable hard disk drive, but the possibility would be reduced if the external hard drive is reformatted. So we should not format the external hard drive at the second time if there are files saved on it need to be retrieved though we may also restore information from the reformatted portable hard drive. Here are some related tips need to be taken in mind after formatting the external hard drive:

1. Do not format the formatted external hard drive again. It is better not to format the external hard drive again after formatting it if we need to restore files or folders from it. More times we format the portable hard drive; there would be more damage to the external hard drive and its original data. Consequently, the chance to recover lost information is reduced after reformatting the external hard drive.

2. Do not save new data on it. The external hard drive is usable though has been formatted and we can save new files and folders on it and read them normally. But we should not store new information on it at once if there are files saved on it originally need to be retrieved. The new data may overwrite the original files and result in the failure of data recovery. So it is right to store new contents on the formatted till all needed files have been recovered.

3. Do not store data recovery tool and files to be restored on the formatted external hard drive. We have talked that we should not save new data on the external hard drive after formatting it until the lost data needed has been recovered successfully. The data recovery program and information to be retrieved also belong to the new data, so it is better to save them on one of the computer hard disks at first.

4. Other events that may cause data recovery failure should be avoided.

 

File types can be restored from the reformatted Transcend external hard drive

We can save pictures, word documents, movies and other video files, songs and other audio files, excel files, and other types of files on the Transcend external hard drive. Which of them can be retrieved by data recovery tool after reformatting the portable hard disk drive? Actually, we do not need to worry about such problem, because we may be able to recover all file types from the reformatted external hard drive with the help of data recovery tool.

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