We can see nothing on the PWR external hard drive after formatting it either by mistake or by intention. What we can do is to get those contents saved on the portable hard drive at the previous back if they are valuable or vital. The way to restore information after formatting the portable hard drive by error is to use read-only data recovery software, which may help us retrieve what we need from the formatted external hard drive but will not leak those files.
I have a PWR external hard drive on which I have stored much data. It helps me a lot because I do not need to carry piles of files after work. But it was formatted accident by me last night. Those contents on the portable hard disk drive are very precious for me, and some of them are the work documents. So I have to get them back. Do you have any idea how to perform data recovery after formatting external hard drive? Please help me if you know anything. Thanks in advance. –Anne from Utah
When format the PWR external hard drive by mistake, it is better for us not to use tit if there are files on it useful. And then we can ask read-only data recovery software for help to get them back from the formatted portable hard disk drive. Here are the steps as follows to tell us how to perform the data recovery in that case:
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
We may meet the different cases that format the PWR external hard drive, because we may format the portable hard disk drive due to massive reasons. But there is one thing we should keep it in mind, which is no matter which kind of formatted PWR external hard drive situation, we can perform data recovery on that portable hard drive to try to get the previous information on it back. Namely, we may be able to recover those lost files from the formatted external hard drive, too. Here are some common cases that external hard drive is formatted below:
1. The PWR external hard drive is formatted by error. We may make such mistake that format the portable hard disk drive accidentally. As a matter of fact, it is one of the most common data loss situations. Fortunately, we may be able to get the lost files back with the help of data recovery software, but we still should be careful when access files saved on it.
2. The PWR portable hard drive is formatted to anti-virus. It is better to format the external hard drive if it is infected by virus and other harmful matters. What’s more, we should format it when find there are suspicious matters contained on the files saved on the portable hard disk drive even though there is not data loss problem.
3. The PWR external hard disk drive is formatted to use it normally. You need to format the external hard disk drive before you can use it. We may format the portable hard disk drive when asked to in case above. It shows that the external hard disk drive is in not formatted error, we can not use it until format it.
4. Other situations that the PWR portable hard disk drive is formatted.
We may have some questions about data recovery from formatted PWR external hard drive. Here are some common ones. First, we may want to know whether we can perform data recovery from formatted portable hard drive with other brands, such as Samsung. The answer is yes, we can recover lost information from other brands of external hard drive after formatting them. Second, we may wonder which types of files can be retrieved from the formatted external hard drive. Actually, we cam recover almost all types of files after formatting the portable hard disk drive by mistake.