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How to Retrieve Accidentally Formatted External Hard Disk
There are a lot of people who have met the situation of formatting their external hard disk accidentally. Which comes to their mind first is that I 'm done, and all my data on the external hard disk must have been lost. Really, what is the truth? Actually, data on the external hard disk is not lost at all, so the question is that how to retrieve data from the accidental formatted external hard disk. Soft recovery software is the best choice for you if you encounter such matters above.
Cases of formatting external hard disk by mistake
What a terrible thing that I lost all my clients data. I save all of them on my external hard disk so I can view them both at home and office and it help me a lot. But unfortunately, I do not have a backup. I wanted to operate one of them this morning, however, I formatted all of them. In other words, I formatted my whole external disk by error. It is a huge mistake for me. Is there any way can I retrieve my formatted external hard disk by mistake? I will appreciate it very much.- April from Las Vegas
How to restore the formatted external hard disk
Please try not to do anything before you really know how to handle it. The following steps could help you deal with the problem you face.
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software. Insert the external hard disk to the PC and launch the software.
Things should be took care while recovering data from the formatted external hard disk
There are things you should pay attention to:
1. Do not save any new data on your formatted external hard disk once it is formatted by mistake.
2. Do not launch the data recovery software on the external hard disk which needs to be restored.
3. Do not save your recovered data on the formatted external hard disk before you make it clear that all data have been restored safely.
Ways to protect external hard disk from losing data
Besides the external hard disk is formatted by mistake, there are something else may cause its data losing as well. So you should keep the following things in mind:
1. It is better not to insert the external hard disk to so many computers, especially which you do not know whether there is virus on it.
2. Protect it away from heat, falling and water.
3. Make your own computer from the attack of virus.
4. Do not unplug the external hard disk until the safe information prompt appears.
Could different computers support the same kind of external hard disk
Normally, the same external hard disk could work on different computers. If your computer just supports a special kind of external hard disk, your computer instruction will write to tell you.
Different species of external hard disk
Different species include their capacity and brands. There are so many brands of external hard disk, such as WG, Seagate, HGST, SAMSUNG, and so on. As for capacity, it contains: 320GB, 500GB, 1T, 2T, 3T, etc. the common usage is 2T. By the way, if different capacity and brands of external hard disks are formatted by accident, data recovery software still could restore them at all. For example, you can use the data recovery software to recover data from Seagate external hard disk, Maxtor, Samsung, and more.
Does each data recovery software is free
Most of them are free. When you recover your data, if the software is not free then it will prompt you. What's more, all kinds of data recovery tools have the function of previewing. So you can choose files what you really need to retrieve if charges.
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