External Hard Disk Formatted by Mistake

"I made a mistake half an hour ago that I think I just clicked the button to format my external hard disk. I know this sounds stupid but after a long day I am extremely tired so that I operated the wrong movements by accident. I've got tons of my daughter's photos on the drive which is supposed to send to her dad. But the computer shows there is nothing left on the drive. My daughter has already gone bananas now. Please give me the methods how to get the data back!"

Nowadays, computer application is all-pervading, and people are more likely to use digital productions preserve their data. Among them, external hard disk holds a chance to exhibit its merits. The overwhelming majority of people are using it to keep infos as backups due to its flexible types of different sizes and its efficiency. Besides, external hard disk is handy and portable, another charming point. Yet we still have some little problems when we enjoy its functions, just like the example I put on the top. Formatted the drive by mistake is rather nettlesome. I believe this is not strange to those people who have come across the scenarios. Then, in this information era, how can we retrieve our data whilst do not waste our time and cost us extra money?

External hard disk data recovery softwares can help you!

Comparing other ways, using data recovery softwares would be your best choice.

* First, what is external hard disk data recovery software?

This is the particular software that the pros designed for data loss.

* Then how does it work?

The way the data recovery software work is implementing their mighty scan function to locate your lost data and bring them back.

* What is the range of it?

The data recovery tools are powerful, and they cover a large sphere of kinds:

1. Types of data: documents (word document, pdf, excel), pictures(jpg, raw, tiff.), videos(avi, rmvb, flv), music(mp3, wma, wav) and so on.

2. Versions of your computer system: Windows (windows 7, window XP, windows 8), Mac (Mac G5, Mac OS, Mac OS X) and so on.

3. Types of your external hard disk: Western Digital, Samsung, Toshiba and so on.

* What is the result of it?

The figure of people who chose data recovery software to get the infos from formatted external hard disk is continually increased over time. And this kind of software gained many praises due to its efficiency.

Usual causes of external hard disk format:

1. Formatted it by mistake:

This reason is not less common. Although tons of people use computers, but not all of them are computer professionals. A large amount of people do not even know that formatting drive means their data would be deleted. So they just followed the computer's order when the "External hard disk drive is not formatted, do you want to format it?" comes out. And some of them just did not read the dialog carefully and pressed the mouse.

2. External hard disk drive is initialized when you put it on your computer.

Every external hard disk dive need to format so the room which has been divided could be used in the future. But if this not happens at the first time you use it, then you should be aware that your drive might be corrupted.

What should you keep in mind?

As soon as you found out that your important data on your external hard disk are vanished you should stop writing anything on it and unplug it from the computer. By doing so you can avoid overwrite which is one of the vital points of finding your data back.

Maybe you should know that why the computer asks you to format external hard disk or why the external hard disk turns to RAW drive. Corruption is one of the answers, virus attack and wrong operations are the common reasons for hard drive corruptions. Another one is your external hard disk need more spaces so it reminds you to clear it.

In order to prevent formatting the external hard disk by mistake again, you might read the dialog carefully and be attentive whether your manipulations are right when you use the computer.