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Unformat External WD Western Digital HDD

You could save massive files on the external hard disk drive with convenience. But do you know how to get back files saved on it if it is formatted by mistake or on purpose? You may think that the lost files could be found in the recycle bin. Or you may hold that the lost data could be retrieved by reformatting the external hard disk drive. All methods above do not work at all. The efficient way is to restore information from the formatted external HDD with the help of data recovery software.

Case of formatting the western digital external hard disk drive by error

All files and folders saved on the western digital external hard disk drive are lost before I backup them. I wanted to copy them but click on the format all button by mistake. Then I plug it into another computer to check whether I can access those files and folders, but unfortunately, there is nothing appearing. What should I do if I have to get back all information from the formatted external hard disk drive? Anyone could kindly help me? -Gig from Annapolis

How to get back lost data from the formatted western digital external HDD

It is easy for you to retrieve lost files from the external hard disk drive within a short time if you ask data recovery software for help. Data recovery tool is powerful and simple to use. The following steps will show you its usage:

Recover data from formatted external hdd

Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Connect the external hard to your computer and launch the software. Then, select a proper recovery module.

1Connect the external hard disk drive to the computer.
2Download the data recovery software and launch it on the computer.
3Open the data recovery program and select the recovery model. Then choose the target disk to scan.
4Preview contents in the list after scanning and select files need to be restored to recover.

Caution that guarantee success of data recovery with data recovery software

You may have not got back all files needed saved on the formatted external hard disk drive after the process of recovery finished with data recovery tool. It may because that some cautions have been ignored after you format the external hard disk drive or when you restore the lost information. Here are some things that you should keep in mind:

1.Stop using the formatted external hard disk drive. You should not format the external hard disk drive again or save new data on it once it is formatted. Put it in a safe place before you get how to retrieve information from it.

2. The data recovery software should be saved on the computer normal disk not the formatted external hard disk drive when you install it.

3. Store the recovered information on the computer normal disk not the formatted external hard disk drive when choose the location, too. But you could remove that data to the external hard disk drive after a while.

Different external hard disk drive formatted situations

Data saved on the external hard disk drive will be lost once it is formatted, but you can find back it with data recovery program. External hard disk drive formatted scenario is not an individual case nowadays. So on which condition will the external hard disk drive be formatted? Here are some common external hard disk drive formatted scenarios as follows:

Accidental formatting. It is a common mistake when using the external hard disk drive. You click the format all button when you intended to perform other actions, so data saved on it is lost.

Recommendatory formatting. You may be prompted that you need to format the external hard disk drive before you can use it, and you format it in order to use it normally according to the system requirement.

Brief introduction to western digital

One of factors that embody the powerfulness of data recovery software is that it could get back almost data with any files formats or types, such as pictures, videos and texts. Here are some common files formats are supported by data recovery program below: JPG, JPEG, TIF GIF, RiFF, TIFF, AVI, PNG, BMP, 3GP, MPEG, MOV, WAV, MIDI etc.

Western digital is a popular brand to produce hard disk and it is a brand of America. It founded in 1970. All information on the internet could be saved on its hard disk or external hard disk drive. All work of western digital corporation are to design, produce and sell hard disk.

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