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Data erased from the external hard drive recovery
Files or folders stored on the external hard drive may be erased from it accidentally. For example, we may format the portable hard drive by mistake or delete contents off external hard disk drive by error. What if those erased files are useful or precious? Can we access them again? As a matter of fact, we may be able to view those erased contents again, because we can try to get them back from the portable hard disk drive. The possible way is to use data recovery software.
Example of files being erased off the external hard drive
I have no idea what to do after deleting some files off the external hard disk drive by mistake. Those erased contents are my work documents and I have no backup. I want to get the back to read and write them, because they are so vital and crucial for me that I can not lose them. Other people tell me that I can try to retrieve those deleted files, but unfortunately, I do not know what I can do. I do not dare to have a try, because I am afraid of failure. Help me, please. -Kate from Washington
How to retrieve the erased information from the external hard disk drive with data recovery software
It is easy and simple to use the data recovery tool to get the erased files from the external hard drive on which they are saved at the previous time. What's more, we just need five steps to complete the data recovery after deleting files off external hard drive. Here are the steps in details as follows:
Recover data from external hard drive
Preparation: You can connect the external to your computer. Then, download and install the data recovery software on your computer. Finally, you can run the software and choose a recovery module after entering the main interface of the software.
Attention should be paid to during the erased files recovery process
We need to perform carefully when retrieve the erased files from the external hard drive though it is easy and simple or we may lose the opportunity to get the deleted contents back. Do you wonder what the reason is? As a matter of fact, the erased contents may be overwritten or corrupted if we do something wrong or improper to the object portable hard disk drive. It is hard or impossible to recover files wanted from the external hard drive if they are overwritten or corrupted. Here are the things we should pay attention to below:
1. New information is forbidden to save on the external hard drive. We may store new files or folders on the external hard disk drive whose contents are erased just now. We can save new contents on the portable hard drive, because it is normal to use though data is erased off it. But we should not store new information on the external hard drive if its erased files are vital or useful and need to be retrieved. We can save new data on it at the end of the data recovery.
2. Stop using the external hard disk drive. Besides store new information on the portable hard disk drive which needs to be performed erased files recovery, other operations should be avoided on it, either. In other words, we should stop using the external hard drive until the data recovery finished successfully. Or we may fail to retrieve files wanted.
3. Disk check action is not allowed to the portable hard drive. Some of us may want to check the disk after the contents of external hard drive are erased off it. it seems that it doesn’t matter to perform check disk operation on the portable hard drive, but actually, we may lose the chance to get erased information useful from the external hard drive after the disk checking.
4. Other things we should not perform on the target external hard drive which need to be performed erased files recovery.
Brands of external hard drive supported by data recovery tool
We can perform erased files recovery on the external hard drive no matter which brands it is. For example, we may be able to restore the erased information from the portable hard drive of WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so on.
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