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Recover the data from the formatted external HDD
We may format the external hard disk drive by error sometimes in daily life. Have you ever made that mistake? We would lose all contents which saved on the external HDD at the original time after the accidental format, as we all know. What if we had to access those previous files again after the format? Some of us may have experienced the similar problem. As a matter of fact, we do not need to worry a lot, because we can try to retrieve those lots contents from the formatted external hard drive.
Case of formatting the external HDD by mistake
Do you have any idea how to recover data from the formatted external HDD? I formatted my brother's external hard disk drive by accident three days ago and he asked me to unformat it, because there were a lot of files and folders important stored on the external drive at the previous time. Both my brother and I have no idea how to unformat the formatted external hard disk drive. Is it possible to get lost files back from the formatted external hard drive, and what the exact way is? -Ken from LA
How to recover files from formatted external hard disk drive with data recovery software
The exact way to restore previous files from the formatted external hard disk drive is to ask data recovery software, which is a kind of tool to get lost information back, for help. It is possible to perform formatted external HDD recovery with the data recovery tool. The following steps are the information in detail:
Recover data from external hard drive
Preparation: Connect the external hard drive and download the data recovery software. Then, you can install and run the data recovery software and select a recovery module.
Attention should be paid to after formatting the external hard drive
We may tend to perform other operations on the external hard disk drive after formatting it. For example, we may save new contents on the formatted external HDD. Do you know is it proper to store new information or perform other operations on the formatted external hard disk drive? As a matter of fact, it is better not to do anything other than perform external hard disk drive formatted recovery after formatting the external hard drive accidentally or intentionally if we wanted to access its original files. Here are some tips as follows:
1. Do not store new information on the formatted external hard disk drive. Some of us tend to save new contents on the external HDD at once after formatting it by mistake. Actually, it is better not to save new data on the formatted external hard disk drive if we need to perform files recovery to get its original contents back. The reason is that those previous folders may be overwritten by the new information and then we could not retrieve them.
2. Save files to be restored on one of the computer hard drives during the process of data recovery. We would be asked to choose the location to store information to be retrieved in step 5 above. It is better to save those contents on one of the computer hard disks available in case of failing to access them successfully after the recovery. The reason is similar as the reason above that overwriting.
3. Do not perform CHKDSK on the formatted eternal HDD. Some of us may want to perform CHKDSK on the external hard disk drive after formatting it to check what is going on after the accidental or intentional format. As a matter of fact, it is not proper to do so, because those files saved on the external hard disk drive at the previous time may be corrupted after that and then we could not restore them well.
4. Others we should not do immediately after formatting the external hard disk drive by error or by intention if we want to perform data recovery on it.
Common brands of external HDD which can be performed formatted files recovery
Common brands of external hard disk drive such as WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, Micron, OCZ, Kingston, ADATA, and others are all supported by data recovery tool. It means that we can perform files recovery with data restoration program to try to restore files needed after formatting external HDD no matter which kind of brand it is.
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