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Recover deleted files off external hard drive
We may feel upset after deleting information off the external hard drive by mistake. The reason is that maybe those deleted contents are important or useful. Is there any way to view them again? Most of us may have the same question. As a matter of fact, it is possible for us to access files on the portable hard disk drive after deleting them, because we may be able to get them back. But before recover the deleted information, we should not do anything to the external hard drive.
Example of files on external hard drive are deleted mistakenly
I deleted information stored on the external hard drive last night. I thought those files are useless and then chose them to click on the delete button by intention. But I recognized that some deleted contents are important later unfortunately, so I wanted to get them back. I have tried some way to retrieve the deleted information, but all failed at last. So I really have no idea what I should do to access those deleted contents again. Can you kindly help me to perform external hard drive deleted files recovery? -Wert from Washington
How to restore the deleted information from the external hard drive with data recovery software
The possible way to get the deleted information back from the external hard drive is to use the data recovery software, a tool to retrieve the lost files. We may be able to access those deleted contents soon, because it will not cost too much time to perform the portable hard disk deleted data recovery. Here are the steps as follows:
Recover deleted files off external hard disk
Preparation: Connect the external hard disk properly to your computer. Then, download and install the data recovery software. Launch the software adn select a recovery module.
Notice should be took of when perform the deleted files recovery
When perform data recovery after delete files off external hard drive, we should be more than careful. It seems easy and simple to retrieve deleted information from the external hard drive under the help of data recovery program. It is, indeed. But we still should perform with care, because we may lose the chance to restore the deleted data from the portable hard disk drive successfully. Here are some tips below show us what we should better not to perform after deleting files off external hard drive:
1. Do not store new contents on the external hard drive after deleting its files. It is better not to save new information on the portable hard disk drive after deleting files off it if those deleted files are useful and we need to get the deleted data back. The reason is that we may not be able to recover the deleted data after that. Files which are deleted are saved on the external hard drive though we can not see them, but new data may overwrite them. We can not retrieve the deleted contents if they are overwritten.
2. Do not format the portable hard drive. Some of us may format the external hard drive after deleting all files and folders saved on it at the previous time. We may think it doesn’t matter to format the portable hard disk drive, because there is no data stored on it. But as a matter of fact, those deleted contents are still stored on the external hard drive and can be retrieved. We may not be able to recover files needed from the portable hard disk after formatting it.
3. Do not choose the object external hard disk drive as the location to save data recovery tool and data to be recovered. We will be asked to select the location to save the data recovery program and files to be restored in steps above. We have talked that it is better not to save new information on the external hard drive after deleting data off it if we need to retrieve the deleted files. So we should save both of them on one of the computer hard disk drives at first.
4. Other operations should be avoided performing on the external hard drive whose files are deleted.
Common brands of external hard drive can be performed deleted data recovery
The common brands of external hard drive such as WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Intel, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so forth are all supported by data recovery software to perform deleted files recovery.
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