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Quick Formatted Portable Hard Drive by Mistake
Are you a portable hard drive user? Have you ever encounter a quick formatted portable hard drive if you are one? What if there still are many vital and precious files and folders saved on it? You must want to get all of them back at that moment, so what is your magic tool? It doesn't matter if you have never heard of it, as this passage will show you an amazing and unbelievable tool to get back the lost information from the formatted portable hard drive. That is data recovery software.
Case of quick formatting the portable hard drive by error
I bought a portable hard drive in order to give convenience to my work. I can take my work undone to home after work and don't need to hug piles of files. But I quick formatted the portable hard drive this morning and all working files and other contents are disappeared now. Can I get all my lost information back? Is there any possible way could help me? Those files about both working files and others are important and crucial for my company and me. Anyone could kindly help me? -George from Washington
How to restore lost files from the accidental quick formatted portable hard drive with data recovery software
All your losses could be retrieved from the quick formatted portable hard drive with data recovery software. It could restore the lost information quickly and safely. Though it is powerful, the data recovery tool is easy to use. We just need 5 steps to get back all our needed files within a short time. Here are the 5 steps as follows:
Recover data from formatted portable hard drive
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect the portable hard drive to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.
Correct usage to portable hard drive to avoid data loss cases
It is just one case to lose files that the portable hard drive is quick formatted but there are many useful information saved on it. It means that there are different other data loss situations. Among those data loss problems, most of them due to carelessness and do not use the portable hard drive properly. So many data loss trouble could be avoided if we use the portable hard drive correctly. Here are some proper usages to portable hard drive as follows:
1. The shorter the USB cable, the better. The USB cable of external hard disk is both data transfer line and power supplier line, so it will make the portable hard drive can not work normally if the USB cable is too long. The reason is that the long cable will lead to the increase of resistance and cause data interference. So it is better to use the original cable not to connect to the extension line.
2. Connect to the computer with the back USB interface on the case. There are two USB interfaces on the case, and one is on the back, the other is on the front. The back one is fixed on the master leaf directly but the front one is not. So it is better to use the back USB interface when need to connected to computer.
3. Use the external power to supply electric to the portable hard disk. It may result in unmoral working to the external hard drive just rely on the USB cable supply power when it is working, such as write and read. The possible reason is that there may happen to power failure problem.
4. Plug the portable hard disk out of computer after closing the USB interface. You can se the sign of USB interface at the right corner on the computer, please click it and close it before you need to plug the external hard disk out of computer.
5. Do not hit or burn the portable hard drive. Such behaviors as above will result in serious consequences. You will both lose data saved on the external hard disk and make the portable hard drive unusable. What’s more, data recovery software can not retrieve lost information on this condition.
Popular brands of portable hard drive in the market
We should purchase portable hard drive at the reliable sources in order to use it smoothly and keep the safety of files saved on it. Here are some popular manufactures of portable hard drive in the market below: WD (western digital), Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, and ADATA.
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