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Quick Formatted Seagate Backup plus 2tb 4tb Portable External
Do you have any idea how to get back files saved on the Seagate portable external hard disk after quick format? It is a common sense that not like deleted information, those files and folders can not be found in the recycle bin after the portable external hard disk being quick formatted. So you must look for other ways to get them back if you still need that data. What the most efficient way is? The answer is to ask data recovery software for help.
Case of portable external hard disk being quick formatted
I bought a 4TB Seagate portable external hard disk last year to back up my important and useful files. It helped me a lot when I deleted files saved on other disks or formatted the other disks by mistake, because I have backup. But now things unfortunate happen, the portable external hard disk was quick formatted accidentally and that entire backup was lost suddenly. What should I do? Some of those original files were lost previously but they are still useful. Help me, please. –Ben from Ohio
How to retrieve lost backup from the quick formatted portable external hard disk with data recovery software
All those backups could be retrieved from the quick formatted portable external hard disk, no matter how much its volume, 2TB or 4TB. Data recovery software is at your hand and could help you get the lost information back as long as it has not been overwritten by any new data. What's more, it is easy to use. Here are its steps below:
Recover data from formatted portable external
Preparation: Download and install data recovery software on your computer. Then, you can connect the portable external to your computer and run the software and select proper recovery module.
Other data loss situations happen to portable external hard disk
In this day and age, there are more and more data loss situations with more people use the portable external hard disk and other kind of storage devices, such as memory stick, CF card, pen drive, and so forth. The portable external hard disk is quick formatted is one case of them. Most lost files and folders could be retrieved thanks to the data recovery program as long as they belong to the logical corruption and have not been overwritten by new contents. Here are some of them as follows:
1. Accidental or intentional deletion. Files are deleted could come from three different ways. First, information saved on the portable external hard disk is deleted directly. Second, data is deleted by shift delete option. Third, the recycle bin is emptied. No matter by mistake or by intention, files will be lost due to any way above. Fortunately, all of them could be retrieved by the data recovery tool from the portable external hard disk on the condition they have not been overwritten.
2. Virus infection. Virus and worms can attack information saved on the portable external hard disk seriously once software or files which contain them are stored on it. One of the common terrible consequences is to lose the whole information stored on the portable external hard disk. We can not find them anywhere neither insert the portable external hard disk to other computers. The only way to restore them is to use data recovery program.
3. The portable external hard disk corruption. If you plug the portable external hard disk out of computer when in the process of read and write and the computer is working, then you may find your external hard disk became RAW file system. So you should remove the portable external hard disk from computer safely.
4. Reinstall the computer operating system. Data saved on the portable external hard disk may be lost if you still plug in into the computer when reinstall the OP for the computer. It is dangerous to perform such way. It is advised to plug it out of computer before reinstalling the operating system.
5. Other events that may lead to data loss situations.
Brief introduction to Seagate
Seagate Technology Corporation is the biggest manufacture of hard disk, external hard disk in the world, which founded in 1979 and located California, America. It could offer products used to corporation, computer, portable devices, consumer electronics and others. What's more, Seagate is created as the hard disk manufacture.
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