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Unformat Portable Hard Drive by Mistake
Have you ever formatted your portable hard drive by error? The most serious consequence of formatting is to lose all information saved on the portable hard drive. You have to unformat it if those files and folders are important or previous for you. Whether those lost files and folders could be retrieved or not? Actually, there is a tool for you to get back all your losses, and that is data recovery software. It could restore the lost data from the formatted portable hard drive quickly.
Case of formatting the portable hard drive accidentally
I have formatted my portable hard drive by accident and all information saved on it has been lost to nowhere. What I want to do now is to unformat it and access data saved on the portable hard drive. But I have no idea what should be supposed to do. I have never encountered such formatted portable hard drive problem, neither do people around me. Is there any possible way for me to get back my important and vital files and folders? Please kindly help me. –Adam from New York
How to retrieve lost information from the formatted portable hard drive with data recovery software
Don't worry if you happen to format your portable hard drive by error, as there is a tool for you to get back those lost files and folders from the formatted portable hard drive. That magic tool is data recovery software. It could help you retrieve your losses within a few steps. Here are its steps as follows to show you how it works:
Recover data from portable hard drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, connect the portable hard drive to the computer and run the software. Finally, you can select a proper recovery module.
Caution while retrieving the lost files
No matter how simple a thing is, it still needs your carefulness. So does the data recovery. So we should be careful after the portable hard drive being formatted accidentally if files and folders saved on it previously need to be retrieved. If you ignore something, then maybe you can not get all needed back or retrieve nothing. Here are some cautions below that need your attention:
1. Do not format the portable hard drive which has been formatted already. Some people like to format the formatted portable hard drive again and again in order to let those lost files come back. But the truth is that such reformatting action can not get back any information at all. On the contrary, it may damage the portable hard drive and its files at the second time, which lead you fail to retrieve what you need. So do not reformat the formatted portable hard drive.
2. Do not save any new information on the formatted portable hard drive. Some people tend to store some new data on the formatted portable hard drive though they want to get the lost files back. What they do not realize is that the new data may overwrite the original information which has been lost due to the formatting. It is known to all of us that those contents have no opportunity to be restored once they are overwritten by other documents.
3. Do not save the data recovery tool and files to be restored on the formatted portable hard drive. The data recovery program and information to be retrieved also belong to the member of new data, so do not save them on the portable hard drive which is formatted immediately. You could save both of them on one of the computer disks firstly.
4. Do not let the formatted portable hard drive continue inserting to the computer after being formatted by mistake. There are risks that the lost information be overwritten by other new data if the formatted portable hard drive plug into the computer when you surf the internet without consciousness. So it is better to unplug it from the computer before you know how to retrieve the losses.
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Other storage devices that supported by data recovery tool
Data recovery program could get lost files and folders back from the formatted portable hard drive, but how about other storage devices? As we all know that there are other kinds of storage devices to be used to the different digital devices. So some people wonder whether other storage devices are supported by data recovery tool. Actually, data restoration program could retrieve lost information from any other formatted storage devices as long as they have not been overwritten. Here are some common storage devices below: Pen drive, hard disk, SM card, CF card, MMC card, SD card, XD-picture card, memory stick, and so forth.
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