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Recover data after format Silicon Power External Hard Drive
It is terrible to format the Silicon Power external hard drive or portable hard rive from other brands by mistake. Have you ever met the formatted portable hard disk error and do you have any idea how to fix it? Actually, the way to fix the formatted external hard drive problem is to get the lost data back from it. Then how to recover what we need from the formatted Silicon Power external hard drive? As a matter of fact, we can have a try with data recovery program.
Case of Silicon Power external hard drive is formatted by error
My Silicon Power external hard drive was formatted by mistake days ago. I do not know the exact time when the portable hard drive was formatted, because it was formatted by my little sister. What I care about now is information stored on it at the previous time. They are so important that I can not lose them any more. What should I do if I need to get them back? Is there any way for me to restore the lost files from the formatted Silicon Power external hard drive? -Quentin from Utah
How to restore lost information from the formatted Silicon Power external hard drive
Data recovery software may help us get what we want back after formatting the Silicon Power external hard drive accidentally or intentionally, and then may access those lost files normally just after a while. Here are the steps as follows to tell us how to start data recovery after format with data recovery tool:
Recover data from formatted external hard disk
Preparation: Download and install the data recovery software to your computer. Then, you need to plug the external hard disk to the computer. Finally, launch the software and select a recovery module.
Proper usage to Silicon Power external hard drive
It is just one reason of data loss from Silicon Power external hard drive that the portable hard disk drive is formatted accidentally or intentionally. There are other events that cause the information erased from the external hard drive. One of them is the correct usage to external hard drive. We should be more than careful in case of losing information due to improper usage to external hard drive though we may be able to get the lost data back with data recovery tool. Here are some tips as follows:
1. Remove the Silicon Power external hard drive from the computer safely. Some of us may plug the portable hard disk drive out of computer directly more than often. What we should know is that we may lose files or folders saved on the external hard drive at the previous time because of the direct removal. So we should not plug the external hard drive out of computer until the safety information prompt.
2. Download and install anti-virus software on the Silicon Power external hard drive. One of the data loss cases is the external hard disk drive is infected by virus. It is terrible to lose those contents saved on the portable hard disk at the old time due to virus attacks, and the virus and other harmful matters may contained in the files without consciousness, so we should be more careful.
3. Try to copy files needed but not cut and paste them. We may tend to cut information needed on the original disk and then paste them on the aim disk. Actually, it is risky to do so, because we may lose those object data in the process of cut and paste and then we may not be able to find them either on the original drive or on the target drive. So it is better to copy and paste them if needed.
4. Other tips to correct usage to Silicon Power external hard drive.
File types can be retrieved by data recovery program
We can preview files such as pictures after scanning, but it does not mean that we can just retrieve image files from the formatted Silicon Power external hard drive with the help of data recovery tool. Actually, we can get almost all types of files back after formatting the portable hard disk with data recovery program though we may not be able to preview them, such as movies, video files, pictures, songs, audio files, word documents, excel documents, power point documents, and so forth.
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