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Formatted external hard drive by mistake
We may format the external hard disk drive by error sometimes. As a result, all files and folders saved on the portable hard drive at the original time would be erased off the drive after the accidental format. So we can not access any data on the formatted external hard disk drive, no matter what they are. What if those contents were meaningful or useful? Actually, there is a way to restore those deleted files from the formatted external hard disk drive.
Case of formatting external hard disk by error
I formatted my external hard disk drive by mistake days ago and consequently, lost all contents saved on it at the original time. What I want to do now is to retrieve those lost files, because they are important and crucial for me. But unfortunately, I had no idea how to get them back. I am doubt is there any way to restore lost information from the formatted portable hard disk drive? I have tried some ways but failed at last. Please tell me what the exact way to retrieve data from formatted external drive is? -Joplin from Washington
How to retrieve lost files from the formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery software
The exact way to restore lost information from the formatted external hard disk drive is to use data recovery software, a kind of tool to get the lost files back. so we can try to use the data recovery program to restore files needed after formatting the portable hard drive accidentally. Here are the steps to use it as follows:
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Preparation: Connect the external hard drive to your computer and download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Tips to use the portable hard drive properly in case of data loss problem
It is terrible to format the external hard disk drive by mistake because we would lose all contents off it quickly. Fortunately, we can ask the data recovery tool for help to try to get the lost files which are vital or valuable back from the formatted portable hard disk drive. But as a matter of fact, we may lose information off the external hard disk drive in other cases, besides the accidental format. So we should be careful to avoid losing contents when use the external hard disk drive though we may be able to restore those lost files under the help of data recovery program. Here are some tips below to use the portable external USB:
1. Connect and remove the external hard disk drive to or from the computer properly. We need to insert the portable hard drive to the computer if we wanted to access files or folders saved on it already. And it is better to plug it out of the computer when do not need to use it. We should not plug the external hard disk drive into the computer until it is completely opened and remove it from the computer safely by clicking its icon at first.
2. Put the portable hard disk drive in a safe place. It is necessary to put the external hard disk drive to a safe place after removing it from the computer safely. As a matter of fact, we can place it in the place away from heat, corrosive liquid, or likely to be fall, or others. It is hard to perform adapt recovery successfully if the portable hard drive damaged physically.
3. Be careful when insert the external HDD to the public computer. It is better not to connect the external hard disk drive to the public computer in case of virus infection, because there may be various harmful matters such as virus and worms on the public computer which may infect the portable HDD. We can download and install the anti-virus tool on the external hard disk drive if had to plug it into the public computer.
4. Other tips to use the external hard disk drive in case of data loss problem.
Brands of external HDD can be formatted format recovery
There are a lot of brands of external hard disk drive in the market, such as WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Kingston, and so on. We can perform the formatted external drive on all of them, actually.
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