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Recover deleted files off WD external drive
Have you ever heard of WD external hard drive or ever used it? There is a problem we may meet when use the portable hard disk drive. We may delete files or folders off the external hard drive by mistake or by intention. Consequently, the chosen information or all contents on the portable hard drive would be erased after the deletion. What if those deleted contents are vital or valuable? Do you have any idea t see them again? Actually, we can try to recover them with data recovery tool.
Case of deleting files off WD external hard drive accidentally
I have a WD external hard drive on which I have saved massive files important. It brings me much convenience I have never dreamed of. But I have a problem now. I deleted all contents on the portable hard disk drive by accident last night. What should I do? I know I have to get them back, because those files are useful, indeed. But I have no idea about external hard drive deleted files recovery. Can you kindly tell me something about it? Thank you very much. –Hugo from New York
How to recover deleted information from the WD external hard drive with data recovery software
It is true that we can try to get the deleted files and folders back from the WD external hard drive with data recovery software. It is the flexible way to perform portable external usb after delete files. We may just need five steps to retrieve the deleted information with the help of data recovery tool. Here are the steps as follows:
Recover deleted files off external hard disk
Preparation: Connect the external hard disk to your PC properly. Then, download and install the data recovery software. Launch the software adn select a recovery module.
Ways to use the WD external hard drive correctly in case of losing its data
It is lucky for us to perform portable hard drive recovery after delete, because we will not lose those deleted files permanently. As a matter of fact, besides deleted files recovery, it is also possible to perform data recovery on the WD external hard drive if there is other data loss cases related to it. For example, you may format external hard disk and erase data stored on it. You may run into external hard disk not formatted error and cannot access any data on the external. As we should know, we may also lose the possibility to get what we want back form the portable hard disk drive. So the important thing for us is to protect the data from being lost. One of the protections is to use the external hard drive correctly. Here are some tips as below:
1. Place the WD external hard drive in a safe place. We need to plug the out of computer if do not use it. After that, we should be more than careful and should not place it casually. For example, we should place the portable hard disk drive in a place where away from heat, corrosive liquid and other dangerous matters. By the way, we should not hit or punch the external hard disk drive in case of damaging it physically.
2. Download and mount anti-virus software on the WD portable hard drive. One of the data loss cases is virus infection. Have you ever heard of it? There are some different situations after the external hard drive being infected by virus. For example, the portable hard drive may become raw file system and can not be used normally until being formatted, or the information saved on the external hard drive may turn to messy codes, or the other terrible results. So it is better to install anti-virus tool on the portable hard drive.
3. Connect or remove the WD external hard disk drive to the computer carefully. We should not insert the portable hard drive to the computer until it is fully opened. As for plug the external hard drive out of computer, we should click on the portable hard drive icon at first and then press on the safety removal information. At last unplug it from the computer.
4. Other ways to use the WD portable hard disk drive properly so as to avoid data loss problem.
Popular brands of external hard drive can be performed data recovery
WD, whose full name is western digital, is one of the common brands of external hard drive. Besides WD portable hard drive, we can also perform files recovery on external hard drive with other common brands such as Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, SAMSUNG, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and so forth.
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